Minnesota
You have no statewide Initiative & Referendum rights. Yet, 80 home-rule cities including St. Paul, Bloomington, Red Wing, Duluth and St. Cloud have local Initiative and/or Referendum.
Poll:
See the results of a poll on support for statewide initiative & referendum here.
Three times in the last century, Minnesotans voted on a measure to
establish a statewide process of initiative and referendum and each time
a majority favored the process. But that alone was not been enough to
enact initiative and referendum in the state.
In 1897 the Minnesota Legislature unintentionally frustrated the
initiative process, as well as a great many future proposals to amend the
state’s constitution, by proposing a supermajority requirement for ratifying
amendments to the constitution.
A group of Republican lawmakers want to eliminate Colorado’s conservation easement tax credit to funnel roughly $100 million a year into highway improvements. Conservation easements are used to protect private land of historic or environmental importance. House Minority Leader Mike May, R-Parker, and Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, said Thursday their ballot measure to suspend the credit is a sensible way to avoid levying new fees on Colorado drivers and repair the state’s roads.
Minnesotans worried about the future of the state’s natural resources and its cultural institutions will pay more to protect them, predicted advocates of a constitutional amendment directing new tax revenue to those areas.
Appearing at a picturesque lakeside park southwest of Minneapolis, the Vote Yes Minnesota coalition Tuesday kicked off its five-month campaign to build support for an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution raising the state sales tax to pay for outdoors initiatives and arts programs.
South Dakota’s 2006 campaign could be a harbinger.