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Stories Posted on November 26, 2007
Tri-City drawing up plans for another bond measure
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: The Union Tribune
The cost only goes up with waiting. At least that could be the case for Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside. Last year, voters twice rejected $596 million bond measures to upgrade and expand the public hospital to meet the state's tougher earthquake standards and to accommodate a growing population.
Opinion: Virginia Johnson: Two extreme camps control transportation debate
Category: Transportation · State: California · Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
I would like the public to know that I have been personally involved with the effort to craft a transportation ballot measure since 2003, the year prior to the demise of Measure J. I have heard all sides of the issues by participating in the 26-month Transportation Funding Task Force process and in 20 smaller caucus meetings attended by key stakeholders holding various opinions.
New Jersey's problems require radical solutions
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: New Jersey · Source: Asbury Park Press
Voter turnout earlier this month was the lowest for a general election in New Jersey history. This was in spite of the fact that all 120 seats in the Legislature were at stake. Perhaps the stay-at-homes feel the Legislature is irrelevant in today's world. Perhaps they're right.
Constitution trumps initiatives, but will it always?
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Washington · Source: The News Tribune
The basics of the case were pretty straightforward. All nine justices of the state Supreme Court ruled last week that the Legislature acted legally in 2005 when it adopted a budget plan that exceeded spending limits contained in a 1993 citizen-passed initiative.