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This year's ballot initiatives serve the unique role of being both provincial and national in scope. Although initiatives only directly affect members of a given state, they often take on national issues that Washington legislators have avoided...
Although this year does not have the highest number of ballot initiatives, the scope and importance of issues is unprecedented. Everything from marijuana legalization to gay marriage to tax reform is being addressed...
...medical facilities and funeral practices. And, once again, classic public health efforts are in place to bring the epidemic under control. Like its predecessor in Zaire, this outbreak has come to world attention months after it began, and only when health care workers, including foreigners, have succumbed. The full scope of the epidemic, including evidence it may also be expanding in Sudan and southward towards Uganda's capital city, Kampala, has yet to be determined. Regardless of how large its scope may be, however, the same control measures will ultimately be effective...
Tomorrow, Massachusetts state voters will cast their ballots not only for a presidential candidate and a senatorial candidate, but for a series of significant referendum questions as well. Of the eight proposals ranging in scope from charity tax reductions to motor vehicle tolls, we find Questions 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 to be the most consequential...
...scandals have been as humiliating for our great republic as they have been historic in scope and size. Filegate, Travelgate, hidden e-mails, lying under oath, hell to pay, abuse of the FBI, of the personnel system; a health-care task force that violated federal law; grand juries, billing records; Lincoln bedroom, troopers, bimbos, coffees, lies. Most terribly, foreign agents carrying cash meet with our President in the Oval Office; they stand in their shiny shoes on the great seal of the United States and later receive what they want: military technology. As a result, China now has weaponry that...