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That explains how former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter stunned the Establishment by gathering 58,000 signatures in favor of a total ban on clear-cutting--enough to place the issue on the Nov. 5 ballot as a referendum. Voters will decide if they want to halt the practice outright, reduce it or do nothing...
...timber interests as never before. If passed, the ban would be the most severe restriction on timber harvests in the country. "It would devastate the forest-products industry," says Vic Berardelli, its spokesman in Augusta. The industry responded with a $1.8 million war chest to try to defeat the referendum--a huge effort in Maine...
...race, the one state he absolutely had to win was California. If the initiative was on the ballot the same day as the presidential election, and if Clinton opposed it, and if the Republican presidential candidate endorsed it so strongly as to turn the race in California into a referendum on affirmative action--then the initiative could cost Clinton the presidency...
North Cambridge hasn't changed much over the years, but in the aftermath of rent control's abolition by statewide referendum two years ago, there's been an influx of upscale residents in all neighborhoods...
Leave the fancy psychological theorizing aside. Times are good. Growth is steady, unemployment and inflation are low, the deficit is way down. Elections in peacetime are always a referendum on the economy. Voters may not be certain whether Clinton deserves the credit, but they may not care. They won't dislodge the incumbent under these sunny circumstances...