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Stories Posted on October 22, 2007
Property-rights debate echoes across nation
Category: Property Rights · State: California Idaho Nevada Oregon Washington · Source: Statesman Journal
When Oregon voters approved Measure 37 three years ago, they sparked similar movements in other states.
Opinion: Measure would widen school inequality
Category: Education · State: Washington · Source: The Columbian
Proponents of simple majority- proposed in the ballot measure EHJR 4204 - say this is simply democracy at its best.
Key issues hinge on election results
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey · Source: North Jersey Media Group, Inc.
Tax rebates for homeowners who make more than $200,000, a new school-funding formula and the future of the state's lottery and toll roads are among the key state issues to be decided at the polls next month.
Pot ideas will test acceptance
Category: Marijuana · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
Starting today, signature gatherers will ask Portland residents to put a law on next year's ballot decriminalizing possession of as much as an ounce of marijuana.
'04 law was 3 decades in making
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
To its supporters, Measure 37 was unfinished business from three decades earlier, when Oregon put most rural land off-limits to development.
Proposition 1: Free-for-all over roads, transit
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: Seattle Times
Opponents of the multibillion-dollar roads and transit measure on next month's ballot were once so underfunded and disorganized that few people took them seriously. No longer.
Opinion: Mayor V's phone tax has phony ring to it
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: LA Daily News
Under Proposition 218, a unanimous City Council must approve the mayor's request to place an "emergency" ballot measure before the voters. Dennis Zine and Greig Smith were the holdouts until Tony V worked his magic behind closed doors
Opinion: Participate, preserve property rights by voting no on Measure 49
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Salem Statesman Journal
Letter to the editor from history teacher on Oregon's Measure 49, the property rights measure.