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The Santa Monica City Council agreed earlier this week to pay a settlement to the family of a Black entrepreneur whose land the city acknowledged was unfairly taken through eminent domain during the 1950s.
From Los Angeles Times
Nancy Shear wasn’t yet out of her teens when she was hired as musical assistant to the eminent and enigmatic symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski, who became her mentor and a father figure of sorts.
To get access to the PACT, we finally contacted a friend in a distant state who is an eminent professor of medicine at another university.
From Washington Post
George’s riddle resurfaces in two new books by eminent American sociologists: “The Poverty Paradox” by Washington University’s Mark Robert Rank and “Poverty, by America” by Princeton’s Matthew Desmond.
From Washington Post
Cortez said even though the state is not using eminent domain powers to get access to private property, the "secretive nature" of Abbott's planned border wall has created an extra challenge.
From Salon
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