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Instead, she said, she hoped the referendum would prompt the city council to send a petition to the statehouse...
Rent control ended in Cambridge in 1994, when a statewide ballot referendum outlawed the practice...
...Tambogrande seems to want none of it. Although two-thirds of the people in Piura live on less than $2 a day, 90% of Tambogrande's voters rejected the Manhattan Minerals project in a nonbinding referendum late last year. Many are fearful that the open-pit mine will corrupt their farmlands, even though Manhattan pledges not to sully or siphon off the area's precious irrigation canals and reservoirs. "We are not going to allow a mine to destroy our way of life," says Tambogrande Mayor Francisco Ojeda...
...Hong's idea isn't official Grand National Party policy. But if it catches on, the left-of-center Roh has only himself to blame. His proposal for a mid-December referendum left Koreans stunned and wary, chiefly because he vowed to resign if rejected. Even though corruption scandals and the administration's indecisiveness have driven Roh's approval rating down to an anemic 25%, voters fear that his exit would leave them rudderless in the face of a stagnant economy and the North Korean nuclear-weapons crisis. Polls indicate voters would back their leader, who has more than four...
...only been in government for one year—joining Sanchez’s ticket as vice-president after a career as a television journalist. Fears of Mesa being a political novice were in no way assuaged when his first address included promises of measures, like a national referendum on the gas project, that are clearly unconstitutional...