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...future of the Pebble Mine is still up in the air. A ballot initiative designed in part to stop the mine failed at the polls last summer, but the project is only in its exploratory stages. Either way, Alaskans are beginning to realize that unchecked resource exploitation can't last forever. "There has to be an alternative view that we can help the community with an environmental economy," says Terry Hoefferle, executive director of Nunamta Aulukestai, an anti-Pebble group. Even the Last Frontier has its ecological limits...
...Referendums and initiatives on California's 2008 election ballot...
...state legislature doesn"t act, perhaps California voters will. One group is preparing to place a statewide initiative for the November 2010 ballot that would regulate and tax the sale of marijuana for Californians 21 years of age and older. Tellingly, the group spearheading the measure calls itself TaxCannabis2010.org, stressing the revenue advantages of marijuana legalization. The group hopes to collect the required 650,000 voter signatures by January to place the measure on the ballot...
...California, medical-marijuana sales are already taxed, and one community recently grabbed for a bigger slice of the pot pie. Residents in Oakland on July 21 overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure that would make the city the first in the country to establish a new tax rate for medical-marijuana businesses. The measure, which a preliminary count shows passed with 80% support, considerably hikes the tax Oakland marijuana dispensaries pay on sales, from $1.20 per $1,000 in receipts...
...minority. They are not able to mobilize support. People have seen the light at the end of the tunnel. No one wants Zimbabwe to slide back to where it was in November or December last year. You have to give it to Zimbabweans. Their resolve, their choice of the ballot over the bullet. Their commitment is amazing...