Word: ballots
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...hearing at the Suffolk County Appeals Court today, state officials will attempt to overturn a lower court ruling to block enactment of five state ballot questions which passed last month...
...Salim E. Kabawat, treasurer of the Massachusetts Homeowners Coalition, which lobbied against rent control and for the ballot initiative, said his side "took the high road" in its advertising campaign while the pro-rent control side campaigned negatively...
...approval, which followed Monday's approval by the house's Joint Committee on Local Affairs, comes three weeks after voters across the state passed ballot Question 9 by a margin of 51 to 49 percent...
Yesterday another brake was placed on the elimination of rent control when a Superior Court judge placed a temporary restraining order on the enactment of five state ballot measures--including Question 9--approved by voters last month (please see related story, page...
...will return to the post he's held since 1989 -- this time as head of a minority that, after today's vote, may swerve hard to the left. "Our mission is to represent workers, middle income families, the poor families of our country," Gephardt told reporters after the secret ballot. "I also look forward to winning the House back in 1996." His right-hand man, Democratic whip Rep. David Bonior of Michigan, likewise won out over Texas conservative Charlie Stenholm. TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty says the return of Gephardt, who becomes the senior congressional Democrat with Speaker Tom Foley...