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- Speech by Richard Welsh from Proceedings of the Third
Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
1998).
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- Speech by D. Alan Wrigley from Proceedings of the Second
Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
1996).
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- Index page of articles and information about the Rails
to Trails movement.
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- By Nate Dickinson (PRFA, November 14, 2004)
Review of Abuse of Power—How the Government Misuses Eminent
Domain by Steven Greenhut (Seven Locks Press 2004)
Master planners are using “blight”
declarations and urban redevelopment to sack neighborhoods in
a nationwide nightmare of eminent domain. People are fighting
back to protect their private property rights.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Reprinted from the New York Property
Rights Clearinghouse, Vol. 11, No. 3 (PRFA Summer 2007.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a mercurial decision
in Robbins v. Wilkie reversing the jury verdict that Bureau
of Land Management officials violated the Fifth Amendment private
property rights of Frank Robbins by repeatedly harassing him
to retaliate because he refused to grant a free right-of-way
easement across his Wyoming ranch. Only Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
held that Robbins’ property rights deserved protection.
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- Op Ed by Carol W. LaGrasse, Published in Agri News,
Billings, Montana, January 19, 2001.
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- Index page of articles and information about Rangeland
and Grazing.
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- Speech by Lee Ann Gerhart from the Fifth Annual New
York State Conference on Private Property Rights, October
21, 2000, Albany, New York.
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- Index page of articles and information about how to reach
your U.S. Senators and Representatives.
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- By Jeff Williams, Assistant Director of Governmental Relations,
New York Farm Bureau; speech delivered at the Fifth Annual New
York Conference on Private Property Rights, Albany, NY (PRFA,
2000)
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- Index page of articles and information about real estate
tax and assessments on the national scene.
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- Index page of articles and information about real estate
tax and assessments in New York.
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- Chapter 16, The Property Owner’s Experience
- by Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, 1998).
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- Chapter 14, The Property Owner’s Experience
- by Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, 1998).
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- A speech by Carol W. LaGrasse at the Annual Convention
of the New York State Libertarian party, April 30, 2000.
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- reprinted from the Congressional Record Thursday, January
24, 2002, by Hon. Richard W. Pombo of California in the House
of Representatives
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- Index page of articles and information about the Regulatory
Abuse of Small Business in New York.
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- By Bill Moshofsky, President, Oregonians in Action, Tigard,
Oregon; Speech to the Ninth Annual Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 22, 2005)
The Oregon Measure 37 referendum created a solution to the
“regulatory overkill” that besets Oregon’s
property owners, under arguably the strictest land use planning
regulations in the country, excessive wetlands, endangered species
and forest practice regulation. Oregonians in Action is still
fighting against government’s attempt to nullify
the law.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, Feb. 24, 2002)
The article proposes as a partial answer to various problems
related to the perpetual inflexibility of conservation easements
that the conservation easement incorporate renegotiation provisions
to be automatically activated at certain intervals.
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- Speech by Marcy Ellin Boucher from Proceedings of the Third
Annual New York Conference of Private Property Rights (PRFA,
1998).
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- Speech by Sam Kazman from Proceedings of the Second
Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
1996).
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- Index page of articles and information about rent nationally.
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- Index page of articles and information about rent control
in New York.
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- Index page of articles and information about property rights
issues involving religious institutions.
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- By Dick Patten, Executive Director, American
Family Business Institute, Washington, D.C.; Speech to the Eighth
Annual Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany,
N. Y. October 23, 2004)
Private property rights were held to be absolutely inalienable
in the American constitutional system. But the Communist Manifesto
of Marx and Engels began to have influence, calling for the abolition
of private property and inheritance. The 10% inheritance tax
of World War I rose to 77% by 1941, and is currently at 48%.
A close battle rages in the U.S. Senate for permanent repeal.
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- Saratoga County Board of Supervisors resolution No. 176-99,
“Requesting the Withdrawal of Proposed Wetland Maps for
Saratoga County until, at a minimum, a program to provide reimbursement
of local tax revenue is implemented by the State of New York,”
October 19, 1999.
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-A Resolution passed unamimously by the Town Board, Town
of Altamont, Franklin County, New York.
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- By Becky Norton Dunlop, Vice President, The Heritage Foundation,
Washington, D.C.; Speech to the Eighth Annual Conference on
Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 23,
2004)
Environmental policies that emanate from liberty are the most
successful. But constitutional principles of liberty, private
property, due process, speech trials, and just compensation have
been diminished in the name of environmental protection. We must
advance an ownership society. Communicating with Congress and
networking with potential allies are essential.
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- OLD FORGE—The Adirondack League Club is advertising
a $5,000 reward in several Adirondack newspapers to anyone who
provides information resulting in the identification, arrest
and conviction of the person(s) who burned two of the club’s
camps to the ground within the last year. From the Hamilton
County News, Sept. 18, 2001, By Virginia Germer, News Correspondent
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-Press release from the America Land Rights Foundation:
On January 8, 2003, the star Congressman for private property
rights, Richard Pombo, a rancher from California, was named Chairman
of the all-important House Resources Committee, which has been
key to issues such as heritage areas, UNESCO Biosphere Reserves,
endangered species, and land grabs and lockups involving the
National Park Service and its parent agency, the Department of
Interior. The selection of Mr. Pombo is a great victory because
he has stalwartly defended private property in arenas ranging
from unjust wetlands regulation to proposed designations of Heritage
areas.
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- By Karen Budd-Falen, Esq., Senior Attorney, Budd-Falen
Law Office, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Tenth Annual National Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 14, 2006)
When officials of the federal Bureau of Land Management used
repeated harassment to try to intimidate Frank Robbins into granting
an easement across his property, the owner of High Island Ranch
in Wyoming sued the individual officials under RICO, the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The Tenth Circuit Court
of Appeals ruled in favor of Robbins.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, (PRFA, July 2005)
Each of us should take on the task of counteracting the U.
S. Supreme Court’s Susette Kelo v. City of New
London decision. We must use our influence on local government
and the state legislature to prohibit eminent domain to take
property from one private owner to transfer it to another private
person for the purpose of economic development.
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- Letter to U.S. Forest Service from Carol W. LaGrasse
(PRFA, November 15, 2004)
Access for fire suppression; productive use of forests, including
motorized and non-motorized travel, hunting, grazing, forestry
and mining; and historic roadway uses are essential considerations.
Forest health, the economic vitality of the locality and the
nation, and local participation should be paramount; radical
preservation agendas should be rejected.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, October 1, 2002)
Code and crime crackdowns across the large areas of land that
are newly zoned to single-family in low- and moderate-income
neighborhoods, threaten to cause houses to be “unoccupied”
for a time period that triggers the loss of grandfathering of
affordable rental units in two-family houses.
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- By Dr. Mindy Fullilove, New York State Psychiatric Institute
and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health at Columbia
University, New York, New York; Speech to the Eighth Annual
Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y.
October 23, 2004)
People love the buildings they live in and their neighborhoods.
When urban renewal destroyed 1,600 African American neighborhoods
in the fifties and sixties, the losses were horrific. The black
people called it “Negro removal.” Vibrant
neighborhoods were lost. Nine out of ten jazz clubs died.
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-By Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property Rights Foundation
of America. Speech to the Ninth Annual National Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 22,
2005)
“First of all, fight to win. Set your goals. Speak your
issue clearly to be heard by the government and by those who
can follow you,” begins Carol LaGrasse’s
short, to-the-point summary of the basic, essential rules for
grassroots success in defending private property rights at every
level.
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- by Jonathan Reisman, Associate Professor, University of
Maine, Machias (Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private Property
Rights, PRFA, November 16, 2002)
How religious environmentalism, anti-capitalism, and the Endangered
Species Act are destroying a rural natural resource-based economy.
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- Index page of articles and information about rural depopulation
on the national scene.
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A letter to the Editor in The Windham Journal Jan.
3, 2002, by Evelyn M. Rikard, about New York
State’s and New York City’s treatment of the property
owners in the New York City Watershed.
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- By Brad Van Dyke, Rural Utahns Media Release, June 22,
2004
The Heritage Alliance worked out a deal with County Commissioners
who wanted changes in the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area
legislation to include resource-based industry instead of solely
crafters, artisans, and tourism. The Commissioners instead were
given a place on the Alliance board of directors.
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- By Brad Van Dyke, June 10, 2003
The proposed National Mormon Pioneer Heritage Area has no
local support in spite of claims to the contrary, threatens private
property rights with central control over land use, favors low-paying
tourism jobs while threatening to drive up the price of property
so that local people can not afford to live where they work,
and threatens the independent local heritage of the Mormon culture.
Property owners in the area of the Capital Reefs National Park,
to be included in the National Heritage Area, are fed up with
the Park Service, which has closed down family logging businesses
to preserve the viewshed.
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- President Putin Signs Landownership Bill Passed by Both
Houses of Parliament.
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