{"id":3519,"date":"2006-12-30T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:20:12","slug":"thank-you-kelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/thank-you-kelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Kelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis proves that it owns all land, and private &#8220;owners&#8221; are just squatters.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/3BFF571434DE330E86257254000CFFC2?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">In its eyes, anyway.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Louis&#8217; redevelopment agency sued a convent, a saint, a nun and an elderly woman in a wheelchair who has a 999-year lease on Friday, seeking to use eminent domain to condemn a property in the Ice House District north of Soulard.<\/p>\n<p>City officials hope the area will be a hip entertainment district one day, but first they have to remove stubborn landowners and tenants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>St. Louis city officials have no shame.  Starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/stlcin.missouri.org\/staff\/getstaff.cfm?agency=3&#038;dept=&#038;subdept=&#038;last=\" target=\"_new\">Rodney Crim<\/a>, Executive Director of the St. Louis Development Corporation (314-622-3400 extension 300), to Mayor Francis Slay (<a href=\"http:\/\/stlcin.missouri.org\/index\/contactelect.cfm?ID=1\" target=\"_new\">contact<\/a>), the overreaching, power-mad political class is the blight upon St. Louis that no land seizures for hip venues will solve.<\/p>\n<p>Stripping a convent of land for nightclubs.  EVICTING THE ELDERLY AND THE INFIRM FOR NIGHTCLUBS.<\/p>\n<p>Nightclubs that might not come, for a redevelopment effort that will probably fail.<\/p>\n<p>No shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis proves that it owns all land, and private &#8220;owners&#8221; are just squatters. In its eyes, anyway. St. Louis&#8217; redevelopment agency sued a convent, a saint, a nun and an elderly woman in a wheelchair who has a 999-year lease on Friday, seeking to use eminent domain to condemn a property in the Ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18347,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/18347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}