Steven Denlinger: Eminent Domain
Mar 28, 2008 - WHEN I WAS FIVE years old, I desperately wanted to learn how to read.
Part of this need was due to the house in which my family lived - an ancient lath-and-plaster construction my parents obtained when the State of Ohio declared eminent domain over a portion of land in Stark County, and then ripped an interstate through it, a space where houses once stood. These houses were free to anyone who…

