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Showing posts with label referendums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label referendums. Show all posts
Thursday, March 30, 2017

From the Texas Tribune: Senate bill would let Houston voters weigh in on fix to pension crisis

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The question is, should they? - Click here for the article . If the Texas Senate gets its way, Houston city officials could have to get vo...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Oklahoma votes against creating a constitutional right to farm and ranch

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One of the more unusual items on the ballot yesterday was defeated yesterday. It would have applied strict scrutiny to laws related to fa...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

From the Houston Chronicle: Robbing HISD - Voters should say 'no' to putting district under the Robin Hood recapture plan.

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Voters who live in the boundaries of HISD have the chance to approve or disapprove subjecting itself to recapture - otherwise known as the R...
Monday, September 26, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Analysis: A Game of Chicken Between Texas, Its Biggest School District

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More on the purpose of the proposition that will be offered to HISD voters related to capture - and some useful commentary on the problems p...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Was the Crimea referendum legitimate

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We will be discussing elections this week in 2305 and start off with a talk about the role of elections in different governing systems. In l...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Term Limits to be Extended in Houston? Not just yet.

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Houston's city council voted down a measure that would have allowed the city's voters to extend term limits on council members and t...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Was there a backlash against the Tea Party in last Wednesday's election?

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Are swing voters still swinging ? Does this tell us anything about what might or might not happen in November 2012? - OHIO TURNS BACK A LA...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Maybe there wont be a referendum in Greece

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From the Washington Post : Prime Minister George Papandreou backed away Thursday from a proposal to hold a referendum on a European bailou...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Judge invalidates vote ending red-light cameras

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From the Chron : Houston city leaders are assessing their options after a federal judge invalidated the November referendum that turned of...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Egyptian voters say ‘yes’ to speedy elections

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From the Washington Post : On Sunday, judicial officials reported that 77 percent of those who cast ballots in a historic referendum Satur...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Referendum in Ohio?

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From the Atlantic, an item for 2301 : Yesterday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich -- who after just two months in office already had a 28-year record...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Voter Initiatives in California

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A huge subject in 2301 will be the nature of the American democratic system. The founder's deliberately avoided creating a pure, or dire...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

An Elected Dictatorship

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That's what the Anti-Federalists wanted to avoid by opposing the Constitution, and what Venezuela has due to a recent national referend...