I remember a couple of cases from when I lived in Illinois back in either the late '80's or early '90's. The city of Naperville JUMPED across State Route 59 into then unincorporated Will County and annexed a working farm, then immediately condemned the property and sold it to a developer to turn it into a higher tax base strip mall, and got away with it. Then the nearby city of Lisle did similar to a working 270+ acre farm along State Route 34 to sell it to a very large big box store to build there. I remember the folks of Lisle putting up a stink that the big box store would attract shoppers below their standards, and they didn't want "that" store there. I don't recall if they ever built or not. Both working farms had been in the families for generations that went beyond a century.
Now, you can thank the Supreme Court decision, "Keho Vrs. New London" where the justices ruled that eminent domain for tax base is Constitutional, citing INTERNATIONAL law in their majority opinion, NOT our Constitution, which IS the ONLY guide that they are to work from. And as I understand it, the property that decision was based upon, land taken away to be given or sold to Pfizer Pharmacuetical sets vacant OVER a decade after the city of New London, CT took it from the owners, tore down their homes and gave it to them. Remember all of the Congressional outrage, vowing to put an end to such abuse? Well over a decade later, and nothing to show for all of the hot air (global warming) given off by them.
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Today's Featured Article - Bad Vibes - by Curtis Von Fange. One of the strangest ways to communicate with our tractor is to ask it how it feels. "Ask it how it feels," you say? Yup, ask it how it feels. Now, as with the other articles in this series one has to be able to hear what 'ole blue' is trying to say in response. The nice thing about our old iron friends is that they are usually quite consistent in their response, rather unlike some people I know who might change what they say due to the weather or other mitigating circumstances. But since t
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