Word: petitioners
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At issue is a preamble reference to "changing rent control." But since rent control was enacted by a state home-rule petition, a city referendum like 1-2-3 cannot represent an actual "change," sponsors argue.
The former publisher of a Cambridge underground magazine, Egg was disqualified from the ballot because he did not collect enough legitimate petition signatures.
EVEN more central to campus life this year was the intense and, at times, bitter struggle to boost minority and women faculty hiring. Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition to this end this spring, and it was the Minority Student Alliance which issued the stinging critique that prodded the Faculty...
Political candidates can receive no more than $1000 from any one donor but there is no such limit on contributions to petition drives for ballot questions. Asked if his support for the two-term limit would enable him to receive large contributions from supporters via the fund supporting the ballot...
Bills to deny Medicaid funding for abortions were vetoed 18 times in 15 years by a succession of Governors before pro-life forces got such a measure adopted by referendum last year. Undaunted, Democratic Governor James Blanchard vows to veto any further restrictions, including those contained in a package of...