"Nissan gets the land, taxpayers get the bill and the people get the boot . . . ."1 "The specter of condemnation hangs over all property. Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with...
I. INTRODUCTION William Rehnquist was first appointed to the Supreme Court by President Nixon in 1973. In 1986, President Reagan nominated Justice Rehnquist to replace Warren Burger as Chief Justice and the Senate confirmed the appointment that year. After nineteen years as Chief Justice, Rehnquist passed away on September...
Powerful Farm Coalition Since the 1960s, farm groups have managed to push programs through Congress in a partnership with supporters of food stamps and other nutrition aid.Faced with President George W. Bush's proposal to cut farm subsidies, this long-standing coalition--now joined by conservationists--is holding firm against budget...
Walter Berns is John M. Olin Professor at Georgetown University and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. In a recent speech, Harvard law professor Archibald Cox acknowledged that the Supreme Court had succeeded in making the Constitution into an "instrument of massive reforms."...
By Meg Jones and Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 14--More bad news for farmers in Wisconsin and across the nation: soaring energy and fertilizer costs are threatening an already embattled farm economy, according to a report presented to Congress...
Mar. 21--In a major policy reversal, the Clinton administration on Monday announced steps to "significantly reduce" and possibly outlaw nationwide the controversial gasoline additive MTBE, a chemical once backed as a way to reduce smog but now implicated for polluting wells and lakes from coast to...
I. INTRODUCTION On October 27,1998, the President signed into law the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act CTEA or the Act.1 The CTEA effectively extended the term of all existing and future copyrights by a period of twenty years.2 The Act was supported by large corporations and motion picture associations...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 7--FRIEND, Neb.--Keith Spohn says Congress should raise the government marketing loan rate, the level at which subsidies kick in for farmers. A few miles to the west of Spohn's farm near Friend, Fairmont farmer Bob Bettger...
FEW farmers in the Midwest had time to watch Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony this week; most of them, busily harvesting bountiful corn and soyabean crops, were fretting that a combination of their healthy harvests and sagging world demand has brought crushingly low prices. The current market...
I read with interest "Time to 'Green' U.S. Farm Policy," by Katherine R. Smith (Issues, Spring 1995). The author touches on a number of initiatives that I have been involved with over the past few years, including reform of the Conservation Reserve Program CRP.Unfortunately, farmers are often singled out as...
Harvest time comes early this year for rural America. The seeds were sown last fall by Agribusiness, Inc., and now American farmers are set to reap a bitter crop.Ag Alert is the weekly newsletter of the California Farm Bureau Federation. Its pages, like those of many other farm publications, have...
Banda has reversed his long-held position on one-party rule and has declared that a referendum on permitting a multi-party system will be held at an unspecified date in the future. In spite of dangers, Malawians continue to mutter for change. EVEN if, nowadays, a gentleman too has the...
GREEN THUMBS: THE PIK AND ROLL AND OTHER SCAMS FROM THE FARM BELT The Future Farmers of America wants its young members to have the rich experience of tilling the soil. So in its classrooms across rural America, 416,000 high-school-aged students learn the right...
GORDON JAMESON has survived droughts and insect pests and has managed to make a go of it with the soybeans, corn and hogs he raises on his northern Illinois farm--in spite of all the "help" he has gotten from Washington. To Jameson, the federal government means high interest rates,...
Endangered Species Act reform will stall in Congress this year. Farmers and wildlife managers want reform. They view the 1973 law as cumbersome and ineffective. But a bill the House passed last year, backed by property rights advocates, is far too ra Endangered Species Act reform...
Sep. 22--Farmers who suffered huge losses this year from low crop prices and the bankruptcy filing of Tri Valley Growers plan to dramatize their plight today by giving away tomatoes in downtown Sacramento. Sep. 22--Farmers who suffered huge losses this year from low crop ...
Sacramento, Calif.--Effective Sept. 2, Jean-Mari Peltier became the first president of the National Grape and Wine Initiative. And according to NGWI, the timing could not be better. Peltier joins NGWI from the National Council of Farmer Co-operatives, where she was president and CEO. The move came shortly after...
Four States Choose Catfish Farmers of the Year JACKSON, Miss. -- A traveler making his way through the South from other parts of the country might come upon the unfamiliar sight of acres upon acres of similarly shaped, man-made ponds and wonder what in the world they are....
More than 800 Black farmers recently filed a new lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture after Congress reopened a 1999 discrimination settlement. The plaintiffs are taking advantage of a provision in the recently enacted farm bill that allows fresh claims from those who were denied damages after...
With food prices rising, the U.S. congress does just the wrong thing. The United States scores better than Europe on agricultural subsidies, but it ’ s backsliding quickly. High food prices have been bad news for consumers, but they have...
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