Va.’s Unconstitutional Broadband Boondoggle CULPEPPER — This winter, it was hard to find anyone in the General Assembly against the idea of making the balky internet in rural communities run as fast as it does in Virginia’s cities. Now a Rappahannock couple is aiming to call attention to the General Assembly’s unconstitutional action and to…
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Sept.24 2020 SUFFOLK — A massive sewage spill into the Nansemond River on Sept. 17 dramatizes the questions of government accountability at the heart of an eminent domain lawsuit brought by Waldo & Lyle that will be heard in November before the Virginia Supreme Court. When the sewage system operated by the City of Suffolk…
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Perplexing Pipeline Questions August 4, 2020 Dominion Energy invested more than five years and $3 billion on the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline in an effort to connect Virginia’s urban crescent to natural gas fields in West Virginia. A favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in June seemed to be the last hurdle for a…
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Turning the tables on VDOT March 28, 2020 MATHEWS COUNTY, VA. — It took five years, but a family-owned convenience store in the heart of Mathews County borrowed a page from VDOT’s condemnation playbook to save its business. By not giving up, Hyco Market owner Brian Lewis and his family drove up the cost of…
DetailsHigh Court 2nd Guesses Chesapeake March 28, 2020 CHESAPEAKE — The city’s decision to cripple a waterfront commercial project planned for Great Bridge has wound its way up to the Virginia Supreme Court. At issue is whether the city had the right to take away — without paying for it — one of the two…
DetailsFeb. 2, 2020 CHESAPEAKE — Every year or two, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers warned the Peterson family against building new doctors’s offices on their commercial corner at the entrance to the Deep Creek Bridge. Every few years, the Petersons asked the same question and got the same assurances. The Corps promised a fair…
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HALIFAX COUNTY, July 2019 — For 10 years, sewage from South Boston regularly overflowed across five acres of Steve Salley’s land just north of town. Salley complained repeatedly to the Halifax County Service Authority about its malfunctioning sewer line running across his property. The Authority sent out a crew to spread lime to decontaminate the land.…
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UPDATE: Judge makes VDOT keep its word A Mathews County judge has ordered VDOT to keep its promise to end a “nightmare” parking problem it created for a property owner. WAVY-10 originally reported on the dispute and covered its conclusion. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/beach-battle-verdict-limits-parking-on-gwynn-s-island/1325873085 What good is the word of the Commonwealth of Virginia? Not very…
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Is your home your castle? Like so many Americans, Suzette Kelo thought so. Then her dreams collided with local politicians who condemned it then turned it over to a big drug company promising millions in taxes. Kelo took her fight to the Supreme Court and lost. But her battle sparked a nationwide political revolt against…
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February 4, 2018 Waldo & Lyle is pleased to announce the election of Joshua E. Baker as Virginia’s Representative for Owners Counsel of America, an exclusive national organization of eminent domain attorneys. Baker, who has practiced for 12 years with Waldo & Lyle, has been named as the Virginia member of the Owners Counsel…
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