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...Basically, because there's no opposition, you're going to get your name on the ballot almost for free," says Robert Winters, a local politico and Harvard math preceptor who publishes an on-line community newsletter...
Voters have the chance to directly affect Commonwealth policy by voting on four ballot initiatives, in the form of amendments to Massachusetts's Constitution...
...final ballot initiative has received the most publicity. A "Yes" vote on Question 4 would continue a 1997 law aimed at restructuring the state's electric utility industry. A "No" vote would repeal...
...Child" foundation, produced a TV special on early brain development and promoted a federal bill that would have directed $11 billion of the tobacco settlement to children's programs. Now he trudges from Rotary Clubs and newspaper editorial boards to the sets of Jay Leno and Roseanne promoting his ballot initiative. "I feel like the cavalry coming to the rescue," says Reiner. "The tobacco industry can buy politicians, but our hope is they can't buy the public...
...about being different." Lopez also spoke with Laramie residents and Shepard's classmates about how they are handling the emotional impact of the killing. Meanwhile, writer-reporter John Cloud and senior correspondent David Jackson traveled to Hawaii to gauge public sentiment there toward gays on the eve of a ballot that would empower legislators to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage--the first vote of its kind in the country. "Hawaii is a relatively young state with a multicultural population, so citizens have traditionally been very tolerant," Cloud says. "But Hawaiians are going through a wrenching internal...