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BOSTON--The state Senate will decide today on petitions from Boston, Brookline and Cambridge to preserve rent control in spite of Question 9--the ballot initiative passed last month that would eliminate rent control effective January...
...Appeals Court justice last week dismissed a lower court's restraining order blocking certification of four of the nine ballot initiatives in the election...
Kevin M. Davis '96, who has been co-chair since Vincent P. Fiorino '95 resigned his position as co-chair five weeks ago, removed himself from the ballot, even though he accepted a nomination at the previous week's meeting...
Jaksha's attitude, however, was anything but fringe. He was supporting the ballot proposition to limit the terms of congressional officeholders, a measure that rolled to victory Nov. 8 in Nebraska and six other states: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada. Only voters in Utah, which earlier had adopted limits, turned down a proposed addition to their restrictions. The past election brings to 22 the number of states that have imposed term limits on members of Congress since 1990. "It would be pointless to mount an opposition," said Ernie Chambers, a 24-year veteran in the Nebraska state senate...
...Crimson's decision to endorse ballot Question 9 on Election Day was disappointing and shocking ("Vote Yes on 9", Opinion, Nov. 4, 1994). This proposition to end rent control in Massachusetts was flawed from the start in its zeal to abolish, rather than reform, the existing system...