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A committee controlled by Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin and set up to promote a Muni overhaul measure on the November ballot received a $20,000 campaign contribution from Clear Channel Outdoor Inc. just two days before Peskin and other supervisors voted to award the company a Muni advertising contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 20 years.
After a new survey earlier this month showed county residents want a “balanced” approach to transportation, discussion has returned to the same old fight: whether to widen Highway 1.
The tobacco money against Measure 50’s proposed cigarette tax increase keeps piling in. Philip Morris has donated another $1.1 million to the campaign, putting total contributions to that effort over $11 million.
A proposed $175 million bond measure for facility updates in the San Mateo-Foster City School District could go to voters in February if approved by the Board of Trustees Thursday.
Measure 49 wipes out property rights for Oregonians. It allows the government to take away value and use of your property without compensation.
Voter support is slipping for a ballot measure that purports to shorten terms for state Legislators, but which would actually allow some of them to remain in office longer, according to a Field Poll set to be released Wednesday.
New Jersey Republicans support I&R.
South Dakota’s 2006 campaign could be a harbinger.
Socialists for I&R? There’s hope for Minnesota yet.
The supervisors are set to decide whether the “Stanislaus County Responsible Planning and Growth Control Initiative” should be put on the Feb. 5 ballot.