Off The Grid News Better Ideas For Off The Grid Living

Reclaiming land taken through eminent domain can be nearly impossible. Carolyn Sheehan learned this the hard way and is still fighting to get back 11.3 acres taken 27 years ago for a freeway that was never built. The state of ...

Eminent domain abuse has sunk to a new low in New Jersey, where a state agency is allegedly trying to seize a man’s business and apartment house even though it has no known plans to use the property. To make ...

A Colorado eminent domain case in Breckenridge is now over, and it left Ceil and Andy Barrie feeling that fighting the government is a futile endeavor. The controversial property rights case, which Off The Grid News has covered, ended in ...

Some Iowa landowners could lose their homes and farms because local governments want to build a reservoir for recreational purposes – a move critics say is in violation of state law. The landowners allege that the Clarke County Reservoir Commission ...

A city is trying to use eminent domain to take a farmer’s water supply and give it to a clutch factory. The city of Laurinburg, North Carolina, wants to pay farmer Brian Maynor and his partner $12,000 for three parcels ...

Oklahoma is fighting back against the United Nations Agenda 21 program. As previously reported by Off The Grid News, Agenda 21 is a voluntary, non-binding UN action plan which is allegedly focused solely on sustainable development. Adopted by the United ...

A California city government is pioneering what could be a dangerous new expansion of the use of eminent domain to seize private property. The Claremont City Council will vote on a resolution to seize the assets of a private utility ...

Controversial eminent domain cases are cropping up across the country, and now an Idaho lawmaker is attempting to give embattled landowners a tool in their fight against the government. State Senator Chuck Winder (R-Boise) has proposed a bill which would ...

Two Minnesota sisters lost their father, and now may lose the land he loved due to an eminent domain order by Dakota County. Dakota County wants to build a bike trail on the property and refused to accept a property ...

Critics of eminent domain are now being denied their basic right to freedom of speech — as well as their property rights — in some American cities. The most outrageous case occurred in Hawaii, where Honolulu city workers used a ...