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The cost only goes up with waiting.
At least that could be the case for Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside.
Last year, voters twice rejected $596 million bond measures to upgrade and expand the public hospital to meet the state’s tougher earthquake standards and to accommodate a growing population.
I would like the public to know that I have been personally involved with the effort to craft a transportation ballot measure since 2003, the year prior to the demise of Measure J. I have heard all sides of the issues by participating in the 26-month Transportation Funding Task Force process and in 20 smaller caucus meetings attended by key stakeholders holding various opinions.
Voter turnout earlier this month was the lowest for a general election in New Jersey history. This was in spite of the fact that all 120 seats in the Legislature were at stake. Perhaps the stay-at-homes feel the Legislature is irrelevant in today’s world. Perhaps they’re right.
The basics of the case were pretty straightforward.
All nine justices of the state Supreme Court ruled last week that the Legislature acted legally in 2005 when it adopted a budget plan that exceeded spending limits contained in a 1993 citizen-passed initiative.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could soon come to regard the epic budget mess he inherited four years ago as a minor nuisance compared to the challenge he faces now.
North Mason School District officials are considering presenting a bond to voters as early as May to build a new middle school, Superintendent Dave Peterson announced Tuesday.
Antiabortion activists in several states are promoting constitutional amendments that would define life as beginning at conception, which could effectively outlaw all abortions and some birth control methods.
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has announced that pro-life advocates in the Golden State can begin collecting signatures for a third try at passing a ballot proposal to provide for parental notification on abortion. The initiative requires teens to wait 48 hours for an abortion so their parents can be notified.
Ballot measure would set limits on fee increases, strengthen governing board and change financing structure.
The state Supreme Court agreed unanimously this morning to uphold increases in tobacco and alcohol taxes approved by the 2005 Legislature. But no substantive constitutional issues were settled. For the second time the court sidestepped the issue of whether the 1993 voter-approved Initiative 601 was constitutional. In 1994 the court declined to rule on a challenge to implementation of the law, saying the plaintiffs could not yet show any harm from the measure.