Word: petitioners
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It would take a petition signed by 10 percent of a county's voters to put the issue up to be passed by a majority vote. Oklahoma didn't actually repeal prohibition until 1959, and organizers on both side of the liquor-by-the-drink issue says most of the...
Without access to sealed Corporation documents, it is difficult to know whether Harvard agreed to link the endowment to the Black Rock Forest. But certainly the University's shoddy treatment of Black Rock over the last 15 years--including efforts to dump the property entirely--fall to offer reassurance that...
Last week the EPA finally responded. The agency said, in a proposed ruling that presumably will become final after a mandatory 30-day period for any public objections to be heard, that it intended to reject the petition. The ruling contends that the Clean Air Act can be invoked only...
No sooner had the fire subsided, however, than the flames of controversy were rekindled over the new Bishop of Durham. Jenkins, a professor of theology at the University of Leeds, had caused much of the fuss in a TV appearance about a month after he was named to the diocese...
Home-town pride produces a civic-mindedness that borders on the obsessive. In the Potrero Hill neighborhood, a builder wants to put up some stores on a pizza shop's back lot. A petition drive and local media brouhaha have deterred him. Why?