Sentences with phrase «of ballot questions»

This year, however, academics, good - government groups and others believe the outcome of the ballot question in November may be different.

This past week, the state Board of Elections approved the language of the ballot question that will be put before the voters.

So far, no one, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo or the state legislature, has taken credit for the wording of the ballot question.

One of the more visible supporters of the ballot question — the League of Women Voters — this week reported spending $ 1,269.86 on its yes vote efforts.

Gov. Charlie Baker has filed a bill that mirrors the language of the ballot question — allowing up to 12 new charters per year.

Fast forward 23 years and it is the threat of a ballot question allowing more charter schools that is stirring Beacon Hill to action.

Supporters of Ballot Question 2 saw disappointing results in Boston on election night, but facts about the city's charters reached more residents» ears — a powerful thing for families interested in change.

Students, parent activists and teachers took the stage to celebrate the defeat of Ballot Question 2, which called for a lift to the statewide cap on charter school expansion — a victory that Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni said quashed efforts to privatize public education.

Now we all know the phrase «raising revenue for education» is the sweet spot of this ballot question, but look at it in this context.

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Over $ 1 million was raised in pursuit of legalization in Maine, much of which was spent gathering the signatures necessary to get Question 1 on the ballot.

Last year, he and his wife, Miriam, a physician and expert in drug addiction, provided the vast majority of funding for the campaign to defeat a ballot question that would have legalized medical marijuana in Florida.

The newspaper endorsed the state constitutional amendment that legalized medical marijuana and backs the approval of a 2016 Nevada ballot question to allow legal recreational marijuana.

A report commissioned by the Massachusetts hospital industry projects that a ballot question to regulate nurse staffing would come at an extraordinary cost and worsen the quality of patient care.

Editor's note: Luke Norris, head of local government solutions for Kansas City - based PayIt, wrote this opinion piece in response to the Nov. 7 single terminal airport ballot questions facing... Read more

I live in Maryland, where we have a lot of controversial questions on Tuesday's ballot, including referenda on marriage equality, the rights of immigrants and the expansion of gambling.

Question: Is it not true that by and large we of the church have been in consent, if not always with our ballots, then by our silence.

If it is possible for the Irish People to adjudicate by ballot on this question, why might we not in the future deliberate similarly on the right to life of the elderly, the homeless, the Travellers, or the mentally ill?

I think it started with the Amir love (at best a poor man's Noel), doubting the greatness of Belinelli (probable first ballot hall of famer), and wild «scientific» research questioning the obvious streakiness of Robert Covington (more up and down than the Dow).

Few — if any — voters will look at the Madduxes and the Griffeys on those future ballots, then shake their heads and question the integrity or character of those players» baseball careers.

The question put forward by the Arlington Heights Park District (AHPD) to the community on the March 20, 2012 ballot addressed the needs of our facilities as determined by the AHPD after having gone through several years of master facilities planning with input from all segments of the community.

If her question is placed on the November ballot and enough voters are in favor of dissolving the district, Fiddyment and other like - minded Gurnee residents plan to ask the voters in the March primary if they want to re-establish a park district.

On August 14th, the Park Board of Commissioners voted to place a referendum question on the November 6 general election ballot asking voters to choose whether or not to support a $ 39 million bond issue.

The Glen Ellyn and Oak Brook Park Districts will proceed with a lawsuit Wednesday against the Du Page County Board of Election Commissioners despite a successful petition drive in Glen Ellyn to place three alternative referendum questions on the ballot.

The Arlington Heights village board rejected the idea of putting a term limits question on the ballot this spring.

But the April 3 ballot measure asking voters to pay for the last 12 - acre parcel of the Dole estate and its 150 - year - old Italianate house has some residents questioning whether the Crystal Lake Park District belongs in the historic preservation business.

The Park Board voted unanimously last week to place a referendum question on the Nov. 2 ballot asking voters to approve purchase of the land and construction of playing fields and a facility.

The first step in the process is gathering residents» signatures on petitions asking the Cook County Board of Elections to add the question to the November ballot, according to Ron Castrogiovanni, a spokesman for a group of residents.

The Orland Park Village Board this week unanimously approved a request from the Orland Park Library Board of Trustees to place the question on the March 19 primary election ballot.

Though park officials are portraying the questions as a way to gauge community interest in a variety of issues, others suggest placing the questions on the ballot was a calculated move to avoid any recall efforts by residents.

CAROL STREAM — The Carol Stream Park District is beginning to seek support for an April ballot question that will ask voters if they approve of a 7.5 - cent tax rate increase to pay for maintenance of parks and equipment.

Under village law, 300 signatures, or 5 percent of the registered voters, are needed to get a referendum question on the ballot.

The open house will be informational and informal, said Brenda Gramann, co-chairwoman of Citizens for Better Parks, a 12 - member committee that is working to see the ballot question approved.

The park board of commissioners has decided to place two questions on the Nov. 7 ballot.

In March of 1936 the Park Board of Commissioners was presented with two petitions, one against and one for putting a question on the ballot.

GLEN ELLYN — A shortage of funds for capital projects has pushed the Glen Ellyn Park District Board to consider a referendum question for the April ballot.

The park district's proposed referendum question could appear alongside a November ballot request from New Trier High School asking voters to approve $ 89 million in funding for a major renovation of the aging Winnetka campus.

The board of commissioners has until August to decide whether to place the question on the November ballot, the next time a referendum could be presented to voters.

Smith and other members of a grass - roots organization working to create a park district scored their biggest victory to date on Friday, when McHenry County Associate Judge Haskell M. Pitluck validated the group's petitions, allowing the question to be placed on the March ballot.

The four park proposals are among more than 20 questions that will be on the ballot, most of them asking for tax increases.

But it is contingent on the results of a referendum question the district wants included on the April 3 ballot.

A question on the April 13 ballot will ask voters whether they want to approve an 8 - cent tax increase to pay for a 26 - mile trail system, operation and maintenance of parks, and the new recreation center.

It's too late to place another referendum question on the November ballot, so the board has plenty of time to consider how to proceed, he said.

Although the Park District is still determining the amount of additional tax revenues it will seek, its executive director, Stephen Scholten, said the question will be on the ballot in March 2002.

Barring a sudden change of heart, a referendum question would be placed on the November or April 2009 election ballot.

Of course there were caveats: it was to be a single - question referendum, rather than the two - question ballot Salmond had often hinted at, and the question would have to be put by the end of 201Of course there were caveats: it was to be a single - question referendum, rather than the two - question ballot Salmond had often hinted at, and the question would have to be put by the end of 201of 2014.

Sub-headings like «the changing position of the Scottish government» and «is there demand for a further devolution question on the ballot paper?»

The email comes as party leaders from across the state and the political spectrum question or outright oppose ending the law, which allows members of one political party a waiver to run on another ballot line.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

On this week's Capitol Connection, our Alan Chartock asks Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group about one of the six ballot questions New Yorkers will vote on next Tuesday — specifically, question as to whether certain judges in New York should be allowed to serve up to ten years after the age of 70...

New Yorkers have a choice of voting yes or no on three proposition questions on the November ballot.