Eminent Domain

The federal government on Friday set a deadline for Pennsylvania landowners who have refused to give up their property so that a memorial to United Flight 93 can be built. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told landowners they have one week to reach sale agreements with the National Park Service before the agency exercises eminent domain to acquire the 500 remaining acres for the memorial, located at the site where the hijacked plane crashed on Sept.

Today's question: How extensively -- if at all -- should eminent domain be used to boost South L.A.'s economy? Previously, Hicks and Hutchinson debated police-minority relations and the quality of South L.

When this city declared the aging Bohemian Hill neighborhood blighted and opened the door to the possibility of using eminent domain to redevelop it, social activist Jim Roos decided to protest in a big way.

When this city declared the aging Bohemian Hill neighborhood blighted and opened the door to the possibility of using eminent domain to redevelop it, social activist Jim Roos decided to protest in a big way.

Three ballot measures later, Californians still have inadequate protection against official abuse of eminent domain, and there are two groups that must share the blame.

Backers of the defeated Proposition 98, which would have phased out rent control and broadly limited government's ability to take private property, vowed Wednesday to take the eminent domain issue to the state Capitol, in hopes of persuading legislators to do what voters would not.

Californians on Tuesday rejected a state ballot measure that would have phased out rent control and barred government agencies from taking homes, businesses and farms for private development.

Analyzing the ads: Propositions 98 and 99 Prop. 98 on the June 3 ballot asks voters to decide whether the state should restrict government agencies from using powers of eminent domain to force the sale of properties for use in private development, as well as whether to phase out rent control in California.