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Stories Posted on November 21, 2007
Initiative to lower state's community college fees draws fire
Category: Education · State: California · Source: Inside Bay Area
In the face of active opposition from other educational groups, supporters of a ballot initiative that would dramatically change the way California's community colleges are funded held a news conference Monday morning at Laney College to make their case.
Press release: California Eminent Domain Reform Ballot Measure Turns in Signatures
Category: Property Rights · State: California · Source: Californians for Property Rights Protection
Californians for Property Rights Protection announced today that they are submitting more than one million signatures to qualify the California Property Owners and Farmland Protection Act (CPOFPA) for the June 2008 ballot. This eminent domain reform measure will stop government from taking homes, family farms, small business and places of worship and giving the land to other private interests.
Opinion: Measure 49: A con after all
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Albany Democrat Herald
There were enough conditional clauses in Measure 49 that some of us thought the whole thing was a con. Now a memo from the state Department of Land Conservation and development seems to prove it.