Monthly Archive for Utah
Utah Stories Posted in November 2007
Taxes, Stem Cell Funding, School Vouchers Rebuffed in Ballot Measure Voting
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey Oregon Utah Washington · Source: Congressional Quarterly
“Off-year” elections do not attract the large number of referendums and issue initiatives that are typically found on ballots in presidential and congressional election years. But Tuesday, the Election Day for most states holding 2007 contests, featured a handful of ballot propositions that had national implications. The following are analyses of the outcomes of four of these measures.
Voters Reject Slew of Ballot Measures
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey Texas Utah · Source: Associated Press
Cost-conscious voters rejected school vouchers for Utah students, state-sponsored stem cell research in New Jersey and higher cigarette taxes in Oregon to fund health care for uninsured children.
Vouchers go down in crushing defeat
Category: School Choice · State: Utah · Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Voters decisively rejected the will of the Utah Legislature and governor Tuesday, defeating what would have been the nation's most comprehensive education voucher program in a referendum blowout.
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