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Stories Posted on December 3, 2007
Crist lobbies voters for tax plan
Category: Taxes · State: Florida · Source: Herald Tribune
No poll has yet shown enough Floridians are ready to embrace a property tax-cutting initiative on the Jan. 29 presidential primary ballot to make it a reality.
Could health care initiative pass?
Category: Healthcare · State: California · Source: San Jose Mercury News
Frustrated by opposition in the Legislature, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to take his health care plan to "the people" next year in the form of a sweeping ballot measure.
Initiative filings lean to the right politically
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Oregon · Source: The Register Guard
Oregon voters may be asked to do something next year that the Legislature and governor aren’t inclined to do: tilt the state to the political right. With the Legislature in Democratic control and fellow Democratic Gov. Ted Kulongoski ready to sign its bills, conservatives are turning to the initiative system as an outlet for their goals of reducing government, curbing union clout and advancing their ideas on how the legal system should treat gays, illegal immigrants and women seeking abortions.
'Yes' to recall law
Category: Recall · State: Illinois · Source: The Daily Journal
In golf, it's called a "mulligan." You hit a bad shot, then drop another ball in the same spot and have another whack at it.
Former Washington governor rekindles doctor-aided suicide debate in the Northwest
Category: Suicide · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
Former Washington Gov. Booth Gardner is on this Sunday's cover of The New York Times Magazine, achieving a prominence in the waning days of his life that eclipses his eight years in office from 1985-93.