After the House Select Committee on Eminent Domain Powers adjourned, their recommendation to lawmakers to pass a bill that basically restates the current law left much to be desired, according to Daren Bakst. Any statute that is passed by the General Assembly would be a far cry from the necessary protection North Carolinians need, a protection that would only be guaranteed by a state constitutional amendment, said Daren in the Forest City Daily Courier, the New Bern Sun Journal, the Monroe Enquirer-Journal, and the Concord Independent Tribune.
