Sean Paige

sean@limitedgovforum.org

Before becoming editor of Local Liberty Online, Sean Paige for 5 years served as editorial page editor at The Colorado Springs Gazette, where he vigorously championed the paper’s libertarian editorial philosophy. He spent 14 years before that in the belly of the beast, Washington, D.C., straddling the worlds of politics, journalism and think tanks.

His Washington work included stints at the White House and on Capitol Hill. He’s a former communications director and spokesman for Citizens Against Government Waste, a fiscal watchdog group; a former investigative writer for Insight, a one-time news weekly at The Washington Times; and he was Warren Brookes Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the year 2000. His foothold in Washington came courtesy of a National Journalism Center internship in 1988. In 2006 Paige won second place in the “public service” category from the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters Association for a series of editorials demanding greater transparency in city government. His writing has appeared in many of America’s top newspapers and periodicals.

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Are rafters taking a paddle to property rights?

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February 19, 2010

The Pueblo Chieftain has another story today on a legislative tussle that pits the alleged rights of rafting companies to float through private land against the property rights of those who live on the river and consider such intrusions a case of trespass. I offered my own commentary on the issue several days back, linking it to a property rights dispute closer to home. The bill isn't a done deal yet, in case my previous post suggested otherwise. This story provides more of the property owners' perspective.
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Posted by Seth Richardson at 11:16pm on February 18, 2010

It must be pointed out that the Chieftain's story completely misstates the Emmert decision. The article says "A 1979 case, People v. Emmert, found no criminal trespass on the part of those who float by private property without touching the banks or the bottom of the stream. It did not address the civil trespass, however." This is one-hundred percent false. Here is what the state Supreme Court actually said in Emmert: “We hold that the public has no right to the use of waters overlying private lands for recreational purposes without the consent of the owner.” I've asked them to make a correction.

Posted by alexg302 at 8:34am on May 5, 2010

Very nice site!



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