Sugar Creek Hates Grandmas

A national property-rights group held a press conference this afternoon outside of a house in Sugar Creek where Eleanor Miller raised eight children and put many pretty plants in the ground.

According to Sugar Creek officials, Miller’s land is “blighted,” a designation that allows the city to take Miller’s and her neighbors’ homes via eminent domain. The property will be turned over to a private developer, who plans to build a supermarket and other businesses bound to generate more tax revenue than single-family homes, no matter how sweet the flowers smell.

Miller and other property owners are not leaving without a fight. “It is wrong to take a home from someone like me,” she said.