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Stories Posted on November 19, 2007
Opinion: As We See It: TRANSPORTATION measure: End gridlock of special interests
Category: Transportation · State: California · Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
Hopefully, this will be enough time for advocates of a $600 million transportation measure to rally public support.
Eminent domain state ballot measure takes aim at rent control
Category: Property Rights · State: California · Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
Property rights activists are once again pushing a ballot measure aimed at restricting government's use of eminent domain, but this time there's a secondary target - rent-control ordinances.
Opinion: A break for schools
Category: Education · State: Washington · Source: Seattle Times
The simple-majority ballot measure for school levies is ahead by a comfortable enough margin to break open the champagne. This ballot measure had a simple request: Allow school levy requests to pass by a 50 percent-plus-one voting majority rather than a 60 percent supermajority.