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Introducing special legislation to return the land to Chinatown will likely lead other neighborhoods to push for their own entitlements and compensations. Approving the bill would set a bad precedent for eminent domain and also lead to an uncoordinated building effort for downtown Boston—a veritable planning disaster...
Eminent domain is an important power that citizens allow the government to exercise for the common good, but with this power comes special responsibility to use discretion in planning and protecting particularly vulnerable communities. Boston’s cheating of its Chinatown residents needs to be remedied, but financial compensation...
A month of public political wrangling over Harvard’s latest attempt to buy a swath of Allston came to a head this weekend, when one state agency voted unanimously to take the heart of the property by “eminent domain”—only...
Just under a week before the Turnpike Authority’s chair planned to officially sign the papers and hand over the deed to Harvard, on Thursday the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) informed the Turnpike of their intent to seize the land through “eminent domain,?...
Epstein counts a number of professors—including Dershowitz, Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn and former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky—among his bevy of eminent friends that includes princes, presidents and Nobel-Prize winners.