Can one Colorado city claim land belonging to another? State appeals court hears arguments in Lafayette-Erie dispute
“An unprecedented legal scuffle between a pair of Colorado communities that centers on whether one municipality can condemn and claim land belonging to its neighbor went before the Colorado Court of Appeals on Tuesday….
Bloodbath at The Denver Post— what can be done?
“On Wednesday, Denver Post journalists learned the budget ax would fall hard on their newsroom cutting deeper than previous layoffs and splintering roughly a third of their ranks. The news, tweeted out by reporters…
To save the Denver Post from its hedge-fund owners, the State of Colorado should seize it
“Readers and staff alike are begging The Denver Post’s double-dealing owners to sell the paper to a responsible local buyer. If they won’t, the state should compel them to. Even by the grim standards…
Are Appalachian Pipelines Being Built to Increase Exports?
“There are at least 15 massive new fracked gas pipelines planned or under development in the Appalachian region, with more proposed for other regions. These new pipelines are expected to lead to enormous increases…
We loved this land’ – Couple donates property for prairie corridor trailhead
“They still call it the Lettuce Patch, because this corner of the field can grow anything. The woman who had owned the land before them named it, just as she had named the nearby…
To stop student activism, private university claims it has ’eminent domain’ over public sidewalk
“Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been crushing peaceful student activism for months because it targets the school’s alleged moves to undermine a 127-year-old student-run union, drawing sharp warnings from state and national civil-liberties groups. Now…
Letter to the Editor: Mike Foote: Forced pooling threatens our open space
“The prospect of oil and gas drilling on Boulder County open space is alarming and has been covered extensively in the Daily Camera over the last several months. Just as pernicious, but not as…
TransCanada wins court challenge to attorney fees, won’t have to pay $354K
“TransCanada will not have to pay $354,000 in attorney fees in cases where Nebraska landowners fought the company’s attempts to use eminent domain to make way for the Keystone XL pipeline, the Nebraska Supreme…
Court: TransCanada doesn’t have to pay landowner attorneys
“The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline doesn’t have to reimburse attorneys who defended Nebraska landowners against the company’s efforts to gain access to their land, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The high…
Florent ‘Tony’ Baker, 93
“Florent “Tony” Baker, 93, of Bar Harbor, Maine, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, at the Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Center in Providence after a brief illness. Tony was born in…