About half of Washington 3.9 million registered voters have already returned ballots for Tuesday’s general election, and state elections staffers are urging everyone else to get ballots in early.
About half of Washington 3.9 million registered voters have already returned ballots for Tuesday’s general election, and state elections staffers are urging everyone else to get ballots in early.
Read more: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2012/11/05/half-of-states-3-9-million-ballots-are-already-voted/
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FERNDALE - City leaders have flirted with a gas tax at least six times since a 1991 state law enabled cities on the U.S.-Canada border to collect up to one penny per gallon of fuel for road repairs.
For the second time in 20 years, voters in the city will decide whether to impose the tax. Council voted 4-3 on Monday, May 6, to put the measure on the Nov. 5 ballot.
Keith Olson led the charge on the council for giving the voters a chance to approve the tax.
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Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill Wednesday that clears the way to schedule Michigan's first gray wolf hunting season since the resurgent predator, reviled by some as a menace to farm animals and beloved by others as a symbol of untamed wildness, was driven to the brink of extinction in the lower 48 states a half-century ago.
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