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Conservation did well on election day, too

November 13, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:: ballotinitiative, cityparks, landconservation, openspace, referendum

Earlier in the week, I reported on the success of various transit measures in referenda around the country on November 4. According to our friends on the Trust for Public Land's excellent City Parks Blog, it was also a...continued→

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Transit comes up a winner at the ballot box (mostly)

November 11, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:: ballotinitiative, california, election, highspeedrail, lightrail, referendum, seattle, smartgrowth, transit

In addition to choosing our leaders for the next administration and Congress, along with state and local offices, voters last week in many cases also decided referenda and ballot initiatives, many of them having a direct bearing on smart...continued→

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