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Stories Posted on November 1, 2007
Kansas Citians to vote on continuing a sales tax for capital improvements
Category: Taxes · State: Missouri · Source: The Kansas City Star
Kansas City voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to continue a tax that many city leaders consider crucial to improving neighborhood infrastructure.
Ad firm gives to Muni measure, gets S.F. contract
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A committee controlled by Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin and set up to promote a Muni overhaul measure on the November ballot received a $20,000 campaign contribution from Clear Channel Outdoor Inc. just two days before Peskin and other supervisors voted to award the company a Muni advertising contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 20 years.
Stances on Hwy. 1 widening changing
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
After a new survey earlier this month showed county residents want a "balanced" approach to transportation, discussion has returned to the same old fight: whether to widen Highway 1.
Tobacco campaign tops record $11 million
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
The tobacco money against Measure 50's proposed cigarette tax increase keeps piling in. Philip Morris has donated another $1.1 million to the campaign, putting total contributions to that effort over $11 million.
Schools to move ahead with $175M bond
Category: Education · State: California · Source: San Mateo Daily Journal
A proposed $175 million bond measure for facility updates in the San Mateo-Foster City School District could go to voters in February if approved by the Board of Trustees Thursday.
Opinion: Measure 49 wipes out property rights
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Silverton Appeal
Measure 49 wipes out property rights for Oregonians. It allows the government to take away value and use of your property without compensation.
Voters less enthusiastic about changing term limits
Category: Term Limits · State: California · Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Voter support is slipping for a ballot measure that purports to shorten terms for state Legislators, but which would actually allow some of them to remain in office longer, according to a Field Poll set to be released Wednesday.
Ethics, school funding issues in Assembly race
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: New Jersey · Source: News Transcript
New Jersey Republicans support I&R.
Opinion: A reconciling way to talk about abortion
Category: Abortion · State: Minnesota South Dakota · Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune
South Dakota's 2006 campaign could be a harbinger.
China Emergent
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: · Source: The Atlantic Monthly
Socialists for I&R? There's hope for Minnesota yet.