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Washington: Des Moines Fire Levy Election Set for April 17
The South King Fire & Rescue Board of Fire Commissioners is informing their citizens of an important ballot measure that will be occurring on April 17th, 2012.
South King Fire & Rescue, the fire district serving the nearly 150,000 citizens throughout the Greater Federal Way and Des Moines areas, will be placing an excess levy ballot measure before our citizens at a special election on that date.
Georgia: Referendum Could Solve Traffic Woes
The day had finally come; it was July 19, 1996, after years of hard work by Billy Payne and Andrew Young, leaders with seemingly impractical aspirations. Atlanta and Georgia were on the world stage. In fact, the world stage had come to Atlanta. It was the opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games. This event would forever certify Atlanta as the international city its residents had long claimed it to be. The journalists, athletes and dignitaries that came from across the world to participate in the games found a city and region united. Atlanta spent $3.2 billion to build incredible structures worthy of international recognition. Visitors found a region in which leaders and citizens understood that a healthy central city made for prosperous suburbs and exurbs.
Wisconsin: Democrat with Famous Name Bids to Oust Walker
Wisconsin Democrats on Wednesday got a candidate with a famous name to challenge controversial Republican Governor Scott Walker in a recall election when Doug La Follette, a relative of well-known Wisconsin progressive “Fighting Bob” La Follette, said he would run for governor.
Iowa: Des Moines Fire Levy Election Set for April 17
The South King Fire & Rescue Board of Fire Commissioners is informing their citizens of an important ballot measure that will be occurring on April 17th, 2012.
South King Fire & Rescue, the fire district serving the nearly 150,000 citizens throughout the Greater Federal Way and Des Moines areas, will be placing an excess levy ballot measure before our citizens at a special election on that date.
California: Court Rejects 2nd Suit Aimed at Pension Initiative
For the second time in two days, a San Diego judge Wednesday rejected a lawsuit aimed at getting a pension reform initiative removed from the June ballot.
Judge Steven Denton sided with the city of San Diego in a lawsuit filed by Hud Collins, who is a frequent speaker at City Council meetings and is running for mayor.
California: Coit Tower Ballot Measure Qualifies for June Vote
A ballot measure to preserve Coit Tower is headed voters’ way.
The city’s Department of Elections has certified petition signatures collected by the Protect Coit Tower Committee, a small group of neighbors, environmentalists and artists leading the charge for a non-binding declaration of policy that would call for “strictly limiting commercial activities and private events at Coit Tower.”
California: Voters, City Spar over Wording on Ballot
Oceanside voters, represented by The Sutton Law Firm, sent a letter to City Council requesting ballot wording on the vacancy decontrol ordinance be changed. Currently the question voters will see on the ballot says rents on mobile home park spaces can be raised “to market value,” while the text of the ordinance, which voters will not see, says “without limit.” Some think the present ballot wording will prejudice voters to be in favor of the ballot measure.“The ballot question on the Oceanside vacancy decontrol measure is illegal, false and misleading,” Bradley Hertz, an attorney with The Sutton Law Firm, said. “Market value is very different from without limit.
North Carolina: Gay Marriage Ban to Draw Students to Polls
The fate of the same-sex marriage amendment referendum will rest in the hands of North Carolina voters in this coming election cycle.
This Spring, registered voters can vote on a proposed amendment to the N.C. Constitution that would continue the state’s ban on same-sex marriages. The ballot measure, called Amendment One, has incited protests on and off college campuses in favor of equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. Student groups, such as Duke Together Against Constitutional Discrimination, are actively working to mobilize voters to oppose the amendment, and the University has reaffirmed its commitment to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
California: Ballot Measure Would Regulate Heath Insurance Premiums
Signatures are being collected on an initiative that would allow state regulators to control the price of health insurance. The measure would let the state insurance commissioner reject excessive rate hikes.
The California Legislature voted down a similar measure last year.
Montana: Unions Seek to Bar Initiative from Ballot
Public employee unions asked a judge Thursday to stop the Montana Legislature’s tax rebate initiative from going on the November ballot.
The initiative was advanced last year by the Republican-led Legislature. It proposes that a portion of tax collections exceeding original budget estimates be returned with tax credits and rebates.