The Entrepreneurial Mind

The practice of local governments using eminent domain to seize private property is nothing new. But the recent Kelo case has created a fire storm across the country. While the Supreme Court has said "No, thank you" to taking a do-over on the Kelo decision, as many as thirty states and scores of local governments are moving ahead to place restrictions on the use of eminent domain to keep it from becoming a duplicitous tool of developers, big corporations and governmental officials. This is good news for small businesses and home owners alike. But with the Kelo case now the "law of the land", we need to keep the pressure on to counteract this decision at the local and state level.