Eminent Domain, The New York Times And The Devil: The Week In Review

“• Adam Reilly reported from Somerville, where Mayor Joe Curtatone wants to spruce up Union Square — and may have to seize property through eminent domain to do it.

• Speaking of eminent domain, Edgar B. Herwick III wrote about four entire towns that were seized and flooded in the 1920s and ’30s to create the Quabbin Reservoir.”

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Lynch, Brenda. WGBH News 16 May 2014.