Sentences with phrase «statewide initiative on the ballot»
A statewide initiative on the ballot asks voters to make an exception, and instead direct the tax revenue from marijuana sales toward public education and drug - prevention programs.
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The convention question is one of three statewide ballot initiatives on the backs ballots Tuesday.
Critics of the actor - director Rob Reiner's latest early - childhood ballot initiative are fine - tuning their case for defeating the measure on the June 6 statewide ballot.
It includes questions placed on ballots through a citizen - initiative process as well as measures that legislatures have put before voters in statewide referendums.
Supporters of a proposed Oregon ballot initiative that would put a two - year cap on the amount of time that English - language learners could receive instruction in their native languages or take English - as - a-second-language classes are looking forward to the November ballot, now that they have gathered enough signatures to put the measure up for a statewide vote.
Proposed ballot initiatives on teacher tenure and the political use of union dues qualified last week for the next statewide elections in California.
The nation's first state ballot measure to impose a carbon tax on fossil fuels failed Tuesday on a crowded slate of statewide initiatives in Washington.
To achieve this, The Nature Conservancy is investing $ 3 million to help chart a viable path forward: helping unite a coalition behind a winning statewide climate policy — via the Legislature or a ballot initiative — that puts a price on carbon in order to reduce carbon emissions, support clean energy, help industries in transition, and generate revenue which can be used to reduce the fire risk, flooding and drought.
More striking, California's Global Warming Solutions Act (Assembly Bill 32, or AB 32) will likely lead to the creation of a very ambitious set of climate initiatives, including a statewide cap ‑ and ‑ trade system (unless it's stopped by ballot initiative — Proposition 23 — or a new Governor, depending on the outcome of the November 2010 elections).