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Stories Posted on November 27, 2007
Opinion: Coalition Seeks to End Abusive Property Seizure
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
Last week, a coalition led by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association announced that more than one million signatures have been collected 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.
Justice for owners
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Albany Democrat Herald
Because the majority has spoken, nobody seems overly worried that Ballot Measure 49 is doing a big injustice to at least several hundred people. But our constitutional system is supposed to protect minorities from such sledgehammer tactics.
Opinion: Ballot measure seeks to rein in cities' land grabs
Category: Property Rights · State: California · Source: Orange County Register
California is one of the few states that has yet to pass serious property-rights reforms following the U.S. Supreme Court's otherworldly 2005 decision affirming the "right" of cities and other government agencies to use eminent domain to take property from private owners and give it to big developers, who promise cities higher tax returns and "economic development" on the targeted property. Cities have long abused property rights this way, but the court's affirmation shocked Americans and propelled most states to pass additional protections.
Newport Beach sued over City Hall ballot measure
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: Orange County Register
Dan Walters: Term limit modifier takes a hit
Category: Term Limits · State: California · Source: Sacremento Bee
Those who want California voters to approve Proposition 93 - a measure on the Feb. 5 ballot to alter legislative term limits - are citing a new analysis of the measure by the Center for Governmental Studies, a nonpartisan political think tank, which more or less endorses its passage.
Electoral change is hope for GOP
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: The Modesto Bee
There used to be a phrase to describe a certain breed of California voter: Reagan Democrats. Those were the moderate-to-conservative members of the Democratic Party who supported President Reagan and the first President Bush in the elections of 1980, 1984 and 1988.
Opinion: MOUNTAIN VIEWS: BIG APPLE PARTIES AT OUR EXPENSE
Category: Taxes · State: New York · Source: Niagara Falls Reporter
Every once in a while, since I reached the age of reason, I've heard residents of upstate New York, particularly Western New York, talk about "seceding" from New York City. The thought-to-word process usually took the form of mumbling and grumbling about some new fiscal atrocity dreamed up by Big Apple legislators and visited upon the upstate regions, which benighted Manhattan residents seem to think is generally centered somewhere around Peekskill. More often than not, I was amused. Now, I am paying attention.
Opinion: Real reform: States could agree to pick president by popular vote
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: The Reporter
It's ba-aaaaack! Like the hockey-masked assailant in the "Friday the 13th" movies that refuses to die, the GOP ballot measure designed to ensure that their presidential candidate wins nearly half of California's electoral votes has been revived. And it's got Democratic leaders nervous.