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Voters play name game with their write-ins
2013-11-11 14:28:59| Auto Parts - Topix.net
In the wake of Gov. Chris Christie's big win last week, everyone's talking about the landslide.
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Washington Voters Nix GMO Labels; Colorado Cities Ban Fracking
2013-11-07 01:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The ballot measure to require labeling of genetically modified foods in Washington State, Initiative 522, was defeated Tuesday by a record spending campaign by America's food manufacturing giants and agribusiness corporations, who financed a deluge of TV ads appearing just before election day. Pamela Bailey, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association which backed the "No" vote, said her organization opposes individual state efforts to impose labeling of products made with GMO technology....
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Rainwater harvesting: dismissed by Texas voters but embraced by business
2013-11-07 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Texas voters last night approved the creation of a water bank expected to fund nearly $30bn in water infrastructure projects in the coming decades. The passage of Proposition 6 means the state will begin putting its 2012 State Water Plan which calls for more than $50b in spending on new water infrastructure by 2060 into action. The project list is heavy on big new pipelines and reservoirs (including a controversial $3.3bn reservoir in East Texas to service the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex 170...
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Voters reject $495 million bond request in Jordan (Utah) district
2013-11-06 18:53:00| American School & University
Proposal was the largest-ever bond request in Utah Schoolhouse Beat read more
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Colorado voters tell fracking industry frack off
2013-11-06 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Maybe it`s the polluted groundwater, river water, and air. Perhaps it`s the toxic stew that gushed over Colorado when it flooded. Or it could be the abject lies. Whatever the fracking industry has done to earn the hostility of voters in at least three Colorado cities, it couldn`t be undone by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a pro-fracking ad blitz in recent weeks. On Tuesday, voters in Boulder, Fort Collins, and Lafayette all approved measures that either banned or placed a moratorium...
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