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Opinion: "Soprano State" Taxpayers Victims of Too Much Government

Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: New Jersey · Source: Asbury Park Press

I've just finished reading "The Soprano State" by Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure. What a mind-numbing experience. No fault of the authors. But 287 pages detailing the ways by which self-serving pols and their greedy cronies raid state and local treasuries and gang-rape the New Jersey taxpayer end up being a real downer. Is this what democracy is all about?

Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 · 11:36 AM ET

Right-to-work ballot battle builds

Category: Unions · State: Colorado · Source: Denver Post

Organizers of a ballot initiative to make Colorado a right-to-work state filed signatures Wednesday to put the issue before voters in November despite pleas from Gov. Bill Ritter and others to stand down. Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said that he now believed it was too late to stop a showdown between business and labor at the ballot box in November and that he would focus his efforts on urging voters to defeat all the proposals backed by business groups and unions.

Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 · 11:26 AM ET

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