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After serving your last term as governor of Michigan, what will...
...local farms and orchards. But every so often, things heat up. This summer, China pressured the board of the Asian Development Bank to block a $2.9 billion loan to India, arguing that part of the money would go to a flood-control project in Arunachal Pradesh. The governor of the state, a retired army general named J.J. Singh, then announced that India would deploy 50,000 more troops up there, though he tells TIME the additional troops were planned well before any hint of tension - and they haven't arrived yet. ("That's a future plan," Singh says.) With...
Have you gotten your absentee ballot for the ’09 elections yet? Or, to take a step back—have you even heard of the ’09 elections? On Tuesday, Virginia and New Jersey residents will elect a governor, and residents of New York City, Houston, Los Angeles, Boston, and 70 other major cities will elect a mayor. Maine residents will vote on whether to preserve gay marriage, and Ohioans will vote on whether to allow casinos in its major cities and whether to establish a board to set livestock care standards. And Texans will...
Local elections like these often get overlooked because they occur during election years that don’t feature marquee presidential or Senate races, but this is a mistake. Local government officials, like a mayor or governor, often have a more direct, immediate impact on everyday life in an area than national officials, and selecting them carefully is therefore of great importance. I, for example, am registered to vote in my hometown of West Windsor, N.J. Unless President Obama reinstates the draft tomorrow, my family’s day-to-day existence won’t change because...
...many times we don’t realize the influence these local elections have until it’s too late. In 2007, Utah residents used their regional power to veto the Parent Choice in Education Act that had been passed by the Utah legislature and signed by the governor, which if passed into law would have offered private-school scholarships to nearly all public-school students. Similarly, experts thought last year’s proposition to decriminalize marijuana in Massachusetts had no chance of passing, but it was successful, putting the state into Canada-like territory for acceptable drug...