Sentences with phrase «with referendum questions»

New Glarus, Jefferson and Marshall are among 11 school districts in the state with referendum questions on the ballot.

Not exact matches

When it came to that last question, there was plenty of anger to go around, with many complaining about David Cameron's decision to call the referendum, others infuriated at the weak Leave campaign, and still others offering less than polite commentary on segments of their fellow citizens.

If the voters decide to dissolve the district, Gurnee residents allied with Fiddyment would seek to re-establish a district in a referendum question in next March «s election and simultaneously field a slate of five candidates for a new park board.

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.

Incumbent trustees Andy Stein, Beverly Sussman and Lester Ottenheimer along with write - in candidate Jeffrey Battinus have been invited to participate in the forum from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Village Bar & Grill, 48 Raupp Blvd.. The four, who are vying for three seats, will each have 20 minutes to offer a biography and explanation on why they are seeking office, their opinions on opportunities and challenges facing the village, their perspective on the downtown plan and whether they would support a communitywide referendum question on the plan.

The decision halts an election board hearing scheduled for Thursday to review petitions the group filed with the DuPage County Election Commission in December for a referendum question on the March 16 ballot.

Comparing that successful campaign with the Park District's recent failed attempt, Brissa said the Park District must do a better job of getting comments from residents before proposing new programs or referendum questions.

If the referendum question is approved, the district plans to renovate all 11 parks over the next three years, starting with Circle, Westlake and Seasons Four Parks this year.

Schultz left amid criticism after voters overwhelmingly defeated a referendum question to finance a controversial recreation center with an indoor pool and gymnasium.

Alex Salmond has been hit by a triple - whammy of bad news in the Scottish referendum campaign, with serious questions being raised about North Sea oil, his plans for currency union and Scots» access to the BBC after independence.

Migration and free movement are among the top questions in the debate about the UK's relationship with Europe and the approaching membership referendum.

I suppose the answer to the question is that D Cameron was confident enough of an «In» result when he went for the referendum not to bother with a supermajority.

Of course, since the system is also akin to referendums, you also have many of the flaws with «everything is a referendum» described in the linked P.SE question.

(The question of how you would entrench a written constitution in the UK has some similar features: the practical political point must be that you legislate to create institutions with a referendum; we have a new convention that it would take a referendum to abolish (eg the Scottish Parliament).

This is now been done, and the referendum legislation is before the Scottish Parliament, with a simple question — should Scotland be an independent country?

With the shadow of the Scottish independence referendum hanging over parliament, this was never going to be an ordinary prime minister's questions.

Professor Vernon Bogdanor followed and spoke about the history of the UK's relationship with the EU and the question of David Cameron's proposed referendum.

The referendum may even pass, although with the government setting the question and campaigning for a «no» vote, that is also questionable.

The prime minister then met with the Scottish first minister Alex Salmond to address outstanding areas of disagreement with the SNP including the vote's timing, the number of referendum questions and the wording of those questions.

The scrap that he faces with his official political opponents is over the smaller order question of whether there should be a referendum.

Statewide turnout increased from 3.3 million in 2013 to 3.6 million this year, and only 6.6 percent of ballots left the question blank, compared with 16 percent in a referendum on expanding casino gambling four years ago.

Talks could take place on an informal basis over the next few months, he suggested, with questions about «political force» being addressed after the European Union referendum.

With the public referendum on casino gaming just weeks away, new polls indicating New York voters are keen on building more state - run casinos are being questioned by anti-gambling groups.

Indeed, I argue that the dual outcomes of last year's independence referendum of devo - max and greater success for the SNP in Westminster elections, coupled with the peculiar current polling arithmetic whereby no government can be formed without the backing of Scottish nationalists, leads to a situation in which the West Lothian Question is maximised to its greatest possible level of inequity between the UK's constituent nations.

Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday should be a passionate little squabble, with David Cameron likely to criticise Ed Miliband for Labour's reluctance to promise an EU Referendum and Ed Miliband accusing the PM of pandering to UKIP and his own backbenchers.

Nick Herbert also calls into question May's strategy, saying another prime minister might have renegotiated with the EU after the referendum

Owen Smith has broken ranks with Jeremy Corbyn to reopen the question of whether Brexit is «the right choice for the country», and urge Labour to offer the public a referendum on the final deal.

He promised an in - out referendum on an uncertain renegotiation of the UK's relationship with the EU that leaves more questions than answers and creates a climate of uncertainty for investors.

David Cameron is quizzed about the upcoming alternative vote (AV) referendum - and a call for the PM to back the No campaign - with a question from Conservative MP Stuart Andrew comparing it to an Olympic race.

To answer you're question, Labour lost because of the economy, on Scotland (by failing to deal with the referendum and it's fallout and by not countering Cameron's allegation that there would be a Labour SNP coalition — not likely and not as distasteful as a Tory - DUP coalition), and because they did not put enough of a policy gap between themselves and the Tories.

In Michigan, where legislative action on school reform has been put on hold until questions of funding equity have been settled, voters will face two ballot referenda — each with a different sales - tax equation — that could add new funds to the education coffers.

The decision to work with SRCP was made after meeting «with a variety of vendors on both sides of the aisle,» said Public Charter Schools» general consultant Jim Conroy, noting that the company has experience working in New England and on ballot questions like this year's charter referendum.

In the week when Gibraltar commemorated the 1967 referendum which essentially enshrined the small territory's freedom of choice to be part of the United Kingdom, Avellano presented a project with strong political overtones questioning the true margins of identity, autonomy and independence of his country.

Anti-tax forces struck back with this ballot referendum, Question 1, proposing to eliminate the automatic indexing.

A Dangerous Game looks at the destruction caused by building and maintaining luxury golf courses in areas as diverse as New Jersey, Dubai, Scotland, China, and Croatia (where a World Heritage protected site was green - lighted, even with the passage of a local referendum against it had an 84 % majority), and asks some hard questions about the ethics and appropriateness of continuing to construct super-luxury resorts when they have such negative effects on the surrounding communities.

And while Brexit will, of course, still hang overhead as an ever - present question mark in the short - term, the property market has already demonstrated its resilience for coping with this issue in the 18 months since the referendum.

Most people (sovereignist leaders included) would struggle mightily to recall with any accuracy the exact formulation of the 1995 Referendum question — something about offering a new economic and political partnership to the rest of Canada.

As news of redundancies and pay freezes begins to emerge in the wake of this June's referendum, the results of the latest Big Question survey highlight the widespread concerns over the impact of the vote, with many partners of the belief that layoffs are inevitable.

Montgomery and Mountfield said in their opinion that there were «significant questions» about the role of a senior Vote Leave official who appeared to have removed references to themself and others in discussions with BeLeave after the referendum by appearing «to change permissions on a BeLeave shared drive in March 2017 while an EC [Electoral Commission] investigation into Vote Leave was under way».

The key questions will centre on the work that Cambridge Analytica had done with Trump's US presidential campaign as well as with pro-Brexit campaigners in Britain's referendum.

Reform of the Australian Constitution and the importance of getting the referendum question right with sufficient resources to support the campaign.

This group resolved that a separate referendum question should be put on a new preamble at the same time as any referendum on the republic, and that such a preamble should recognise «Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders as the original inhabitants of Australia who enjoy with all other Australians fundamental human rights».

The Hampton Roads REALTORS ® Association, along with NAR, have been promoting and supporting a fall advisory referendum question on the proposed expansion.