Citizens in Charge Foundation

Opinion: Easton would control destiny with home rule

Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Pennsylvania · Source: The Morning Call

''The charter provides for an innovative and unified form of government with a full time mayor and six part-time council members comprising a seven-member council...''

Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 · 12:55 PM ET

Opinion: Measure 49 is a start; say yes

Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Clackamas Review

Oregon voters have a choice in the Nov. 6 election as they seek to balance private-property rights against the need for orderly land use planning.

Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 · 9:33 AM ET

Opinion: Measure would widen school inequality

Category: Education · State: Washington · Source: The Columbian

Proponents of simple majority- proposed in the ballot measure EHJR 4204 - say this is simply democracy at its best.

Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 · 9:15 AM ET

Opinion: Mayor V's phone tax has phony ring to it

Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: LA Daily News

Under Proposition 218, a unanimous City Council must approve the mayor's request to place an "emergency" ballot measure before the voters. Dennis Zine and Greig Smith were the holdouts until Tony V worked his magic behind closed doors

Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 · 8:58 AM ET

Opinion: Participate, preserve property rights by voting no on Measure 49

Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Salem Statesman Journal

Letter to the editor from history teacher on Oregon's Measure 49, the property rights measure.

Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 · 8:06 AM ET

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