Daily Archive
Stories Posted on November 18, 2007
LTE: A puppet show
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Oregon · Source: Daily Astorian
At latest count, but not final, 13,189 registered voters in Clatsop County had expressed their wishes on ballot Measure 4-123 ("County retrieves 330 stray votes," The Daily Astorian, Nov. 8).
Colorado Supreme Court Permits Embryonic Personhood Ballot Measure
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: Life Site
Pro-life human rights activists in Colorado may be on the verge of a major breakthrough in the struggle against the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. The group Colorado for Equal Rights received permission from a unanimous vote Tuesday in the state Supreme Court to begin collecting the signatures needed to bring forward a ballot initiative that would grant the status of legal personhood to the unborn.
Proposed Colorado Measure on Rights for Human Eggs
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: The New York Times
A proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution that would give legal rights to fertilized human eggs may be headed for the ballot next year, raising the prospect of a heated local debate over abortion at the same time that Democrats are gathering here for their national convention.
Panel rejects bid to change limits on building heights
Category: Property Rights · State: California · Source: Contra Costa Times
A controversial bid to change long-standing height limit restrictions in Walnut Creek has failed, but the issue is not dead. The city's Planning Commission on Thursday unanimously rejected a challenge to height limits established when voters passed Measure A in 1985. The commission, however, agreed that the frozen height limits have handicapped redevelopment of some parcels such as the site of a vacant former co-op store at 1510 Geary Road, leaving them underutilized.