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More than 80 proposed initiatives have been approved for circulation, and experts expect eight to 10 to qualify for the November ballot. "Right now, anyone with $200 and enough signatures can put something on the ballot [in California]," says Mark Paul, a senior scholar with the New America Foundation's California Program. "People assume these things are vetted, but they are not." Twenty-four states allow citizens to make laws and constitutional amendments directly by way of the initiative process. Fred Kimball, the owner of Kimball Petition Management, believes initiatives are an answer to a legislative process he says...
...response to the layers of initiatives that have made California government increasingly dysfunctional, the Bay Area Council business group announced a plan last year to put an initiative on the ballot to hold a new constitutional convention. But two weeks ago, its Reform California campaign ran out of money. One reason: Kimball's firm and others, fearing such a convention might change the initiative business, warned their contractors against carrying the petitions. Very few of the signature gatherers at the shopping malls across California are volunteers; nearly all are contractors like Birch, working for firms hired by the state...
...that matter, how much of it can even be fixed in the near term. As Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander put it, leading off for the Republicans, "Our country is too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington, a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking 17% of the economy all at once." (See the top 10 health care reform...
...British chain is believed to be the first to launch such a program. However, given the proclivity of Americans for divorce - recent statistics put the U.S. divorce rate at about 3.5 per 1,000 people, or roughly half the marriage rate - it may only be a matter of time before the concept makes the jump across the pond. Indeed, divorce has become a big industry around the world, thanks in part to such high-profile celebrity splits like Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston and Heather Mills and Paul McCartney. "Celebrate-don't-commiserate" products like greeting cards, sponge cakes...
...responding to customer demands. "Divorce is a sad fact, but it is a fact and any good retailer is always looking for new opportunities and innovative services and products they can offer," says Richard Dodd, a spokesman for the British Retail Consortium. "Clearly, we've got a retailer who put those two things together." (Read: "Gift Giving on Facebook Gets Real...