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- Here’s How America Uses Its Land https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/?srnd=premium 5 comments politics
- Here's How America Uses Its Land https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/ 4 comments business
- [Bloomberg] Here’s How America Uses Its Land https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/?leadSource=uverify+wall 68 comments dataisbeautiful
- Here’s How America Uses Its Land, courtesy of /u/ramdasviky https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/ 19 comments economy
- For years, America has been using a British island as a landing pad for its torture taxis -- only now has the U.K. admitted to it. http://www.alternet.org/rights/79273/ 2 comments worldnews
- How Politicians Are Using Taxpayer Money To Fund Their Campaign To Sell Off America’s Public Lands http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/18/3450397/politicians-taxpayer-money-seize-public-lands/ 10 comments politics
- When Biden Becomes … Rooseveltian! | Using a crisis to reduce child poverty and make America more truly a land of opportunity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/opinion/sunday/biden-america-plan-poverty.html 42 comments politics
- Interior Department Announces Significantly Reformed Onshore Oil and Gas Lease Sales - Lease sales to focus on highest and best use of America’s public lands, reflecting an 80 percent reduction from nominated acreage https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announces-significantly-reformed-onshore-oil-and-gas-lease-sales 7 comments politics
- Lead Plates and Land Claims in North America and Europe: When did the practice begin of burying lead plates to establish ownership of land, and why did it die out, and was it ever used successfully in a court of law to establish ownership? https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=buried+the+lead%2Cburied+the+lede&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3&year_end=2019&year_start=1800 141 comments history
- Don’t use public health to rationalize keeping the Mexico border closed to asylum seekers — The Trump administration used COVID-19 as a pretext to close America’s land borders to asylum seekers, a misguided move that President Biden should reverse. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/26/opinion/dont-use-public-health-rationalize-keeping-mexico-border-closed-asylum-seekers/ 9 comments politics
- Los Angeles is the homeless veteran capital of America, with an estimated 8,000 on the streets. The Dept of Veterans Affairs could quite literally end this homelessness if a 387 acre parcel of land (deeded to US in 1888) were used as it was intended. The ACLU is suing to make this happen. http://www.aclu.org/blog/content/mia-missing-america-0 127 comments politics
- One hearing sums up everything you hate and love about Ron Paul. He's taking on the Koch brothers yet he's doing it using an "expert" who wrote a book about how Lincoln was a tyrant and Southern succession was necessary to make America "the land of the (slave-owning) free" http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/monetary-policy-hearing-today-or-ron-paul-versus-the-kochtopus/ 25 comments politics
- America's misguided culture of overwork - "the American economy is based on GDP that comes from waste, environmental pillage, urban sprawl, bad planning, people going farther and farther with no land use planning whatsoever and leading more miserable lives." http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/08/25/german_usa_working_life_ext2010/index.html 14 comments politics