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Will fourth time be the charm for charter schools?
Q13 Fox News political analystSupporters of charter schools are heading to the ballot box. They are frustrated that the Legislature didn’t approve the policy earlier this, and hope to take their case to the people with an initiative. “We believe they will agree that the...Tags: Voting, Elections, Schools, Charter Schools, Politics
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Osceola commission to consider adding initiatives to November ballot
Osceola County commissioners plan to consider adding a pair of citizen initiatives to the November ballot.
Board members will consider initiatives that would make commission races nonpartisan and limit future commissioners to two terms in office. No...Tags: Fred Hawkins, Elections, Voting, Democratic Party, Politics
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Poll: Republicans gain ground in Wisconsin
Three weeks away from the state’s hotly contested recall election, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has taken a lead over his Democratic challenger among likely voters, a new poll shows. Looking ahead to November, President Obama and Republican Mitt...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Labor Legislation, Elections, Tom Barrett, Polls
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Activists launch drive to require paid sick time in Orlando
Nearly half the workforce in Orlando receives no paid sick time, forcing them to choose between going to work sick or losing a day's wages, workers-rights groups say. So on Wednesday, a coalition of activists launched a ballot initiative that would...
Tags: Small Businesses, Buddy Dyer, Labor Legislation, Voting, Elections
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Drive to change Osceola elections mired in partisan disputes
A proposed charter amendment that would make Osceola County Commission races nonpartisan has become tangled in partisan politics. Republican state Rep. Mike Horner and Supervisor of Elections Mary Jane Arrington, a Democrat, are at odds over the...Tags: Elections, Voting, Local Elections, Democratic Party, Politics
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Labor groups express concern about California budget initiative
PolitiCalLabor groups are mounting a last-ditch effort to dissuade the group California Forward from placing on the November ballot a constitutional amendment to change the way California assembles its budget.... -
Corporate tax change headed to ballot over Jerry Brown's objections
PolitiCalHedge fund manager and Democratic philanthropist Tom Steyer's tax measure appears headed to the November ballot over the objections of Gov. Jerry Brown.... -
Tom Barrett's primary win sets up rematch with Gov. Scott Walker
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's easy victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary turns Wisconsin's recall election into a rematch -- a bitter, $80-million, four-week argument over whether voters will reaffirm, or reverse, the 2010 election. The campaign to...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Elections, Executive Branch, Career and Workplace, Democratic Party
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ANALYSIS: Primaries reflect conservative enthusiasm for 2012
WASHINGTON (AP)— In a show of conservative enthusiasm, a tea-party backed Republican vanquished six-term Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in a GOP primary and North Carolina voters decided overwhelmingly to strengthen their state’s gay marriage ban....
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Labor Legislation, Voting, Tea Party Movement, Arne Duncan
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Wisconsin voters fiercely, evenly split as recall vote looms
MADISON, Wis. — When Tim Cullen returned to the Wisconsin state Senate after an absence of 24 years, he might have been an ideal bridge between the state's warring parties. A former three-term Democratic Senate majority leader, Cullen had left...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Elections, Human Interest, Executive Branch, Polls
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Gov. Scott Walker and the danger of the recall movement
I'm a lifelong Democrat and a career educator. So I'm predictably appalled by Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who has cut spending for schools and stripped teachers — and most of the state's public workers — of collective...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Personal Weapon Control, Voting, Elections, Punishment
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Assembly candidates weigh in on freeway extension, tax initiatives
Candidates for the state Assembly district representing Pasadena and South Pasadena differ on how to bolster the struggling economy, but agree on the need for public pension reform and aren’t too keen on a statewide schools tax or plans to extend...
Tags: Voting, Entertainment, Executive Branch, Technology, Democratic Party
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