(The Center Square) – The orchestrated parade of rental trucks delivering bank boxes of signed petitions to the Missouri secretary of state’s office ended on Friday, the final business day before a May 5 constitutional deadline. Organizations desiring to get a measure on the November ballot gathered signatures for the last few months. Signatures of 8% of legal voters in any six of Missouri’s eight congressional districts, or approximately 171,000 voters, must be gathered and...
By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says it submitted enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election. If Solano County elections officials agree, voters in the San Francisco Bay Area county will decide whether
A trio of crimes involving Democratic lawmakers has put the spotlight back on public safety in the Golden State, an issue on which experts warn the party's candidates could be vulnerable in November. In the span of a week, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was the victim of a burglary at Getty House in Windsor Square, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) had his suitcase stolen out of his car in the Bay Area, and a plainclothes police officer protecting San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan was punched by a...
By JACK DURA Associated Press Supporters of an abortion rights initiative in South Dakota have submitted far more signatures than required to make the ballot this fall. The signatures were turned in Wednesday, but the measure’s outcome is unclear. South Dakota is a conservative state, and Republican lawmakers have strongly opposed it. The effort also
An abortion rights initiative in South Dakota receives enough signatures to make the ballot
By JACK DURA Associated Press Supporters of an abortion rights initiative in South Dakota have submitted far more signatures than required to make the ballot this fall. The signatures were turned in Wednesday, but the measure’s outcome is unclear. South Dakota is a conservative state, and Republican lawmakers have strongly opposed it. The effort also
A campaign to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri’s constitution said it collected more than twice the likely total needed to qualify for the ballot.
A billionaire-backed vision to erect an idealistic new city on scrubby grassland in rural Solano County is one step closer to becoming reality. On Tuesday, the Bay Area tech leaders behind the campaign, dubbed California Forever, held a news conference to announce that they had turned over more than 20,000 voter signatures to the Solano County registrar in support of putting the issue before local voters. If the county validates at least 13,062 of those signatures, the measure would go before...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has qualified for the ballot in California, his campaign announced Monday. Kennedy, alongside running mate Nicole Shanahan, was backed by the American Independent Party (AIP) of California, the state with the most electoral college votes in the country. The campaign confirmed it filed paperwork with California's secretary of
A string of prominent California Democrats has been the victim or alleged victim of crime over the past few years raising fresh concerns about law and order in the Golden State.On Thursday, thieves broke into the car of longtime Rep. Adam Schiff—a House Democrat who is currently running for the open Senate seat in California—and stole several bags, including one with his business clothes inside, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.Two days earlier, a fight broke out between San Jose...
Authorities in Bakersfield made 211 arrests, recovered 127 stolen vehicles and seized four firearms in the first six weeks of an enforcement effort between local police and the California Highway Patrol to reduce crime in some California cities, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said Tuesday. Newsom announced last week that he was sending California Highway Patrol officers to Bakersfield as part of an expansion of an anti-crime campaign that began in the Bay Area earlier this year. It turns out they...
Tori Schafer, attorney for the ACLU and spokeswoman for Missourians for