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...ballots next week. Three of those initiatives, plus a fourth measure unrelated to eminent domain, would go even further--forcing governments to compensate anyone whose property lost value because of zoning, environmental or, in some cases, consumer-protection laws. That has opponents of these "regulatory takings" measures--in California, Arizona, Idaho and Washington--asking Blue's own question: "Where will it stop...
Those rankings were based on 21 indicators, including school spending and standardized test scores. Arizona was ranked the least intelligent...
...Where: Arizona, Colorado [also voting on creating domestic partnerships], Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin...
...citizens' initiative in Arizona--which, with 19 measures on its ballot, has more than any other state--would require farmers to give pregnant pigs and calves raised for veal a little more living space. Another aims to pump up voter turnout by setting up a $1 million jackpot for one lucky voter every two years. A Nebraska measure proposes to double funds for treating compulsive gamblers, to $1 million. Voters in Colorado and Nevada will decide whether to make the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana legal, while those in South Dakota vote on whether pot should...
...suffered a great loss of life and property on 9/11, but the attackers damage us far more by inciting us to compromise our standards to match theirs. The bill is not an act of courage, strength and resolve. It is an act of fear and desperation. Craig Littlefield Tucson, Arizona, U.S. The Right Force for Darfur Peter Beinart's essay "How to save Darfur" [Oct. 2] addressed the moral concerns reasonable human beings in the free world have toward what is happening in Darfur. A military force might easily be able to invade Darfur territory after destroying Sudan's military...