By Deborah Bowers Harford County, Md. has dropped from 8th to 9th place in a national survey that ranks the nation’s most successful farmland preservation programs, and is the only county in the ranking that is not funding its program. York County, Pa. overtook Harford County by preserving 714 acres in its farmland program since […]
Dels. James and Riley Introduce Private Property Protection Legislation
From the office of Del. Mary-Dulany James: Annapolis, March 11, 2010; Delegate Mary-Dulany James and her colleague Delegate B. Daniel Riley have introduced a bill (HB1541) to protect a property owner in their district. This is a private property rights bill to prevent the state from the taking of land without just compensation to the […]