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...says the manner in which he and others motivated students to vote in the grape referendum was a step away from the traditional kind of activism because of its use of e-mail, posters and pamphlets, and its refusal to engage in muck raking...
This may give some people pause--and not just because of cybergossip Matt Drudge. When the U.S. Constitution was written, representative government was a necessity. Communication from a citizen to the capital could take weeks. Now government by instant referendum is technologically feasible, and government policy is increasingly based on the ebb and flow of public opinion...
According to Durand's office, the Community Preservation Act would enable communities across the state to choose by local ballot referendum to adopt a transfer tax of up to 1 percent on the purchase of real estate...
...advertising is right, we can win the vote on referendum," he says...
Wilkinson, who served as spokesperson and chairof the Friends of Cape Cod Landbank Bill, saysthat after a 14-year battle just to bring the landbank proposal to a referendum, they have now lostthe struggle to maintain the Cape's "specialatmosphere...