Glendora Battle Lines Are Drawn Over Land-Swap Ballot Measure
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By Molly R. Okeon, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif.  Sep. 18--GLENDORA -- The debate over Measure A, which would allow a  Texas-based developer to build up to 338 homes on a private golf course, is  heating up as the Oct. 3 special election draws near.
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Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposal to reform redistricting takes on the red-blue divide.
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By The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--T   he people have spoken, though only part of what they said is clear.   Unless the final count flips things around, which is unlikely, the one certain result of Tuesday's election is that Measure A is dead.
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By Martin Kasindorf  LOS ANGELES -- Eleven states are giving voters their first chance this fall to override last year's Supreme Court ruling that allows local governments seeking more tax revenue to seize private property and give it to developers.
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The legal question that has dominated court fights over the coming election &#151; the fate of voters who mistakenly try to vote outside their home precinct &#151; appears nearly settled.
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By Stephen Wall, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Sep. 9--LOMA LINDA -- A slow-growth group that has fought to prevent  hillside development has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the City  Council's approval of the new General Plan.
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PORT CHESTER, New York  - A dispute over voting rights reminiscent of the U.S. civil rights era has broken out in this New York town, where the federal government has thrust itself into the debate and a judge suspended an election.
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By Rob Young, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 13--Sutter County supervisors could not muster the votes Tuesday to extend a moratorium on splitting land parcels in the Meridian and Robbins basins and around the Sutter Buttes.
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By ERICA MELTZER, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Grijalva may have big say as member of House panel  Southern Arizona's congressional representatives say they will do what they can to stop mining at Rosemont Ranch in the Santa Rita Mountains.
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A county that switched this year from voter punch cards to an electronic scanner system still had hundreds of uncounted ballots Friday, holding up a congressional race and the balance of the state legislature.
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A dispute over Columbia's last large piece of undeveloped land is shaping as up as a battle that may be less about competing plans and more about who's in control of Howard County.
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By Brian Callaway, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 22--The legal battle over changes to open space protections that would have allowed a new YMCA to be built on preserved land in Richland Township may be drawing to a close.
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By Craig Tenbroeck, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 7--Pima County is taking the State Land Department to court in an attempt to overturn a decision allowing mining in Davidson Canyon.
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By Sally Connell, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 17--Even as the project to ship water from Nacimiento Lake to homes and businesses in the North County and San Luis Obispo is nearing construction, some property owners are resisting plans to lay the pipeline across their land.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec. 14--GILROY -- Developers, landowners and South County officials have  convinced a regional land-use agency to delay a policy that could limit the  growth of Gilroy and Morgan Hill.
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By Linda Golz, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 12--The fight over access to water in southern Medina County has been waged for years.