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...governor altogether. So special interests decide to go directly to the people with a ballot initiative. This system of “governance” is tremendously flawed, top to bottom.For one, the deluge of ballot initiatives burns out and confuses voters. This will be the sixth referendum ballot in just over two years. With 10 long and complicated ballot measures thrown at me at a time, I have trouble sorting through the mess that is my sample ballot. So I usually look to the Los Angeles Times and state party endorsements and then decide based on little information...
...Harvard students are among wealthiest in country,” Nelson said. “It’s great Harvard got this award, but everyone can do better.” But students have had some influence on University environmental policy. The Kennedy School of Government passed a referendum in February 2004—proposed by students—that raised the student term-bill by $5 in order to pay for 100 percent renewable energy. The school administration reacted and agreed to cover the costs. “We thought it might be a good idea to have...
...shocked me into a new way of looking at this discussion. The post, which originated with Arin Dube, a Berkeley economist who was involved in the 2001 Harvard living-wage movement, was about New Orleans. In 2001, New Orleans overwhelmingly passed a $1 minimum wage increase in a popular referendum. In a shocking bit of judicial activism, the State Supreme Court ruled that the city had no right to regulate wages. The court struck down the new wage law, dropping the wages of many of the poor city’s poorest citizens...
...Hugo Chvez of Venezuela is but the most recent example) and the long-running tragedy that is Haiti. He has chronicled the rise of the NAFTA generation in Mexico, the cocaine guerrillas in Colombia and the crusade of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya as he struggled for a national referendum on Castro's rule. We're delighted that for this work, Tim is one of this year's recipients of the Maria Moors Cabot award, which honors reporting about Latin America and is the oldest international award in journalism...
...probability that the Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani-the most respected religious figure in the country-will not endorse the Shi'ite slate, as he did last time, even if it holds together. There is also the assumption that the Sunnis, having participated in the Oct. 15 constitutional referendum, will become a significant political force in December (despite well-documented ballot stuffing in the recent vote). All of which would create some running room for the formation of a new and creative coalition...