Comments on: Notes from Jefferson County: Cows Come Home to Find Their Room Turned Into a Ginormous Railroad Yard http://www.liberadio.com/2010/03/11/notes-from-jefferson-county-cows-come-home-to-find-their-room-turned-into-a-ginormous-railroad-yard/ with Mary Mancini & Freddie O'Connell Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Payday Lending in TN: How the Debt Trap Catches Borrowers « Roane County Democratic Party http://www.liberadio.com/2010/03/11/notes-from-jefferson-county-cows-come-home-to-find-their-room-turned-into-a-ginormous-railroad-yard/comment-page-1/#comment-183316 Payday Lending in TN: How the Debt Trap Catches Borrowers « Roane County Democratic Party Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:21:40 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=6556#comment-183316 [...] Lending in TN: How the Debt Trap Catches Borrowers I’m still driving around East Tennessee admiring the landscape…dotted with Payday and Title loan storefronts. You probably have one around the corner from [...] [...] Lending in TN: How the Debt Trap Catches Borrowers I’m still driving around East Tennessee admiring the landscape…dotted with Payday and Title loan storefronts. You probably have one around the corner from [...]

]]> By: Payday Lending in TN: How the Debt Trap Catches Borrowers http://www.liberadio.com/2010/03/11/notes-from-jefferson-county-cows-come-home-to-find-their-room-turned-into-a-ginormous-railroad-yard/comment-page-1/#comment-183229 Payday Lending in TN: How the Debt Trap Catches Borrowers Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:01:25 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=6556#comment-183229 [...] Bios Notes from Jefferson County: Cows Come Home to Find Their Room Turned Into a Ginormous Railroad Yard [...] [...] Bios Notes from Jefferson County: Cows Come Home to Find Their Room Turned Into a Ginormous Railroad Yard [...]

]]> By: Mary Mancini http://www.liberadio.com/2010/03/11/notes-from-jefferson-county-cows-come-home-to-find-their-room-turned-into-a-ginormous-railroad-yard/comment-page-1/#comment-183227 Mary Mancini Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:19:20 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=6556#comment-183227 Thank you for the clarification, Hickster. Thank you for the clarification, Hickster.

]]> By: I'm a hick http://www.liberadio.com/2010/03/11/notes-from-jefferson-county-cows-come-home-to-find-their-room-turned-into-a-ginormous-railroad-yard/comment-page-1/#comment-183207 I'm a hick Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:50:49 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=6556#comment-183207 Great article, but I need to clarify what the bill actually says. It doesn't involve public funding directly. It states that no person or entity can use eminent domain to take land composed of Class I, II or III (considered prime farmland and a small percentage of the remaining agricultural land in Jefferson County) within a county in EPA non-compliance. I'd love to see a bill that totally revamped eminent domain since it's gone far beyond what was originally intended, but that bill would never pass. There's also a disconnect on the legislative website. The original version of the bill is what still shows up there, and it precluded inclusion of the same soil categories in an EPA non-complaint county from expansion of or creation of new planned growth areas. The amended version replaces that, and that version should show up on the website this week or next. Great article, but I need to clarify what the bill actually says. It doesn’t involve public funding directly. It states that no person or entity can use eminent domain to take land composed of Class I, II or III (considered prime farmland and a small percentage of the remaining agricultural land in Jefferson County) within a county in EPA non-compliance. I’d love to see a bill that totally revamped eminent domain since it’s gone far beyond what was originally intended, but that bill would never pass.

There’s also a disconnect on the legislative website. The original version of the bill is what still shows up there, and it precluded inclusion of the same soil categories in an EPA non-complaint county from expansion of or creation of new planned growth areas. The amended version replaces that, and that version should show up on the website this week or next.

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