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...around the usually placid university town of Bellingham, Wash., activists from a group called Citizens Against Forced Fluoride have planted lawn signs adorned with skull and crossbones. "I had no idea it would get this intense," says Smith, 70, a retired dentist who is leading a Nov. 8 ballot initiative to add fluoride to the local drinking water. "These are very angry people...
...vote by the City Council, one in six Santa Feans got a raise. It was a good day. Since Harvard started paying its workers a living wage five years ago, living wage campaigns have been sprouting up all over the country. In 2004, living wage initiatives were on the ballot in two states, Florida and Nevada. In 2006, activists expect to target an additional four states. At the same time, unions and community groups around the country have persuaded cities to pay more to their employees. As I write, activists in our own Cambridge are working on a minimum wage...
...throne in sight, a crop of relatively inexperienced young politicos are going to try to rewrite the rules. In short, the big ticket is up for grabs, and for the first time in years, there are barely enough UC veterans in the junior class to fill up a ballot. Only seven members of the class of ’07 returned this year, and of them, Winthrop’s John F. Voith III ’07 is the only one who has been on the UC since his freshman year. As it stands, he’ll likely...
...authors write.The final myth of prescription drugs refers to the Democrats’ tendency to focus on domestic issues such as drug policy or job security. Instead, Galston and Kamarck argue that in a post-Sept. 11 society, national security and moral issues are key deciding factors at the ballot box.“There is a constant debate around the presidential race [that]...we should fight this race on domestic policy, but this does not work when we have soldiers abroad,” said Kamarck. The authors argue that, by focusing on domestic issues over foreign policy, Democrats...
According to an Election Commission e-mail sent to House lists on Saturday, only one candidate is on the ballot in Quincy House, only two candidates are on the ballot in Dunster House, and four houses have only three candidates on the ballot. Each upperclass House has three elected seats on the council...