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- A Boon to the Bullet Train?
- California is voting in November on a $10 billion bond measure that would start the process of building a bullet train line (top speed: 220 MPH) in ...
- Categories: Ballot Measures
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- How a Beery Joke Got Out of Hand
- A group of San Francisco residents has been collecting signatures for a ballot measure that would rename the city's main sewage treatment facility after President ...
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- Slow Count
- Oregon's primary was on May 20, but it's still too soon to call the result on Measure 53, which seeks to clarify state law regarding seized crime-scene ...
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- Conflicting Polls on Gay Marriage
- We now have some hard evidence that California will pass a constitutional amendment this fall to disallow gay marriage. We also have some evidence that ...
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- As Washington Goes, So Goes Oregon?
- It looks as though Oregonians will get a chance to vote on the "top-two" primary system that their neighbors to the North have ...
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- In Defense of Initiatives
- Here's how Evan Ravitz responded to Patrick's proposal of an initiative to end all initiatives: Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater! Voters on ...
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- Beebe Weighs in on Immigration
- Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has been among the most successful governor of the class of '06, in part because he's cultivated a good relationship with ...
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- An Initiative to End All Initiatives?
- Patrick details the perils of direct democracy in a comment on my post on ballot initiatives: I live in California, where initiatives were introduced as ...
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- Lacking Initiative
- Congressional Quarterly sees a trend against ballot initiatives: Ordinarily this would be a big year for ballot initiatives with the presidential campaign dominating the headlines ...
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- 2 Comments
- Will California Ban Gay Marriage?
- Yesterday's ruling by the California Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage was historic. In six months, it could be history. That's because California is likely to ...
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- 22 Comments
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