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 “Small
Business and Private Property Rights” - By Raymond J.
Keating, Chief Economist, Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Council, Washington, D.C. and Columnist, Newsday, Long
Island, New York; Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Local zoning often is a tool of special interests to force
small businesses to give up. Government uses its power of eminent
domain for economic development for well-financed entities at
the expense of small business. During the past 100 years, government
has lost respect for private property owners when developing
sports stadiums, which used to fit around private property. In
addition, it should be more recognized that intellectual private
property rights protect the interests of small businesses, not
just “big pharma.”
More on this
topic: Eminent
Domain — National
More on this
topic: Zoning
& Building Codes — National
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 “New
Wave of UNESCO World Heritage Sites Proposed” - By Carol
W. LaGrasse (PRFA Position Brief, June 2007)
This spring, the National Park Service announced that 36 locations
in the United States have been proposed for UNESCO World Heritage
Sites, adding to the twenty that already are designated in this
country. Such international recognition potentially threatens
private property rights because preservationists could exploit
the designation to stop the use of land in the region just beyond
a site’s borders.
More on this
topic: Biosphere
Reserves & World Heritage Sites
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 “Shaky Foundations
- The Exaggerated Basis for Environmental Land-Use Controls”
- Jay H. Lehr, Ph. D., President Environmental Education Enterprises,
Inc., Ostrander, Ohio, Reprinted from the
Proceedings of the Third Annual New York Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, 1998)
An environmental scientist for 44 years who helped write every
piece of federal environmental legislation between 1965 and 1987,
Jay Lehr states that today’s wetlands enforcement
is irrational; that the Endangered Species Act is one of “the
most terrible pieces of legislation in the whole environmental
arena”; that pollution of our air, water, soil, and
from solid waste has been greatly curtailed; and that some issues,
including radon and ozone, are a farce.
More on this
topic: National
Dam Relicensing under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC)
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