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...however, he says the vote to ratify the contract was a "referendum on education in Cambridge" that showed teachers feel "dispirited, estranged and undervalued...
Most prominent is the turmoil caused by a housing market that has become increasingly expensive since Cambridge's rent control system was voted out by a statewide referendum...
...slap-down has to sting Blair, who invested a considerable amount of his own political capital in a vain bid to shut out Livingstone. But that's the kind of adversity on which the insurgent Livingstone has always thrived, and Blair's efforts simply turned the election into a referendum on his efforts to override the choice of the Labor membership. "Livingstone's a great, colorful campaigner and is clearly out there having fun," says McAllister. "And Blair has inadvertently turned him into the major, if not the only, issue of the campaign, allowing him to dominate the media...
...Camp Garcia range. President Clinton ordered the facility reopened in January, after concluding a deal with Puerto Rico's governor, Pedro Rosello, in which Washington promised $40 million in exchange for the right to conduct operations using dummy bombs this spring and agreed to abide by a referendum held sometime in the next two years. The island's 9,000 residents would be given an extra $50 million in aid if they vote to allow the resumption of live ammunition exercises...
Civil unions do not have the support of a majority of Vermonters. But, if in 1964, Alabama had held a referendum on whether to allow African-Americans access to the vote, the answer would have been "no." The passage of Vermont's civil unions is arguably the greatest civil rights legislation of the last decade. Instead of questioning, we should celebrate the 19 senators and 76 representatives who brought us to this mountaintop. They are living profiles in courage...