3 Western States to Vote on Pot Proposals
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The Bush administration's war on drugs stretches deep into Asia and Latin America, yet one of its most crucial campaigns &#151; in the eyes of drug czar John Walters &#151; is being waged this fall among voters in Oregon, Alaska and Montana.
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(BCN) -- Two Northern California women will take their bid for the right to use medical marijuana to the US Supreme Court on Monday.
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Thousands plan to take part this year in an online effort that lets backers of third-party candidates in swing states trade votes with people in less critical locations. But overall participation is lower than in 2000. By Joanna Glasner.
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An economic slump has prompted some Republicans in this western state to consider abandoning President George W. Bush and cast their vote for Democratic challenger John Kerry in Tuesday's election.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Sep. 23--Stanislaus County officials have added a third meeting for public comment on proposed revisions to the agricultural element of the general plan. It will be Oct.10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Gene Bianchi Community Center, 110 S.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct 4  - Californians who a decade  ago voted in a landslide for a "Three Strikes" measure imposing  long prison terms on career criminals are being asked to scale  back that law by those who say it has unjustly snared  small-time offenders.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 9--A group of Boone County residents plan to lobby the Missouri General Assembly next year to legalize a new tax that could be used to safeguard farms from development.
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Colorado, where President George W. Bush was scrambling to rally support, could hold the key to the neck-and-neck US presidential vote November 2 if a landmark electoral reform proposal gets the green light.
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Voters in Alaska will decide on  Tuesday whether to make their state the first in the country to  legalize the sale, possession or use of marijuana by adults.
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During the nineties, our state saw an increase in population, due to "The Californians" (who we like to bitch about) migrating to our low tax/low smog state.  Though most of us natives like to bitch about their supposedly shallow, urban sprawl, rude soccer mom, cell phone, and shopping mall ways, they have done something useful and actually turned us backwards hillbilly, gun toting, Republican loving rednecks into a swing state. Now we have to deal with traffic on I-25 being snarled for hours whenever Dick Cheney decides to send his motorcade through rush hour.  The most important issue on the ballot in our state is Amendment 36, which would change our electoral voting from "winner takes all" to a proportional voting system.
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ON DOC'S ORDERS: A poll for AARP of adults age 45 and older found nearly three-fourths of them support legalizing marijuana for medical use.
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Democrat John Kerry takes his quest for votes to the western states of Nevada and Colorado that polls show could be up for grabs in the presidential contest, as incumbent rival George W. Bush stumps in three eastern battleground states.
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By David Bowermaster, Seattle Times  Sep. 21--A long-simmering debate over how justice is meted out in the Western U.S. rose to a boil Wednesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee debated proposals to split the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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Western governors gathered last week to plan with the Bush administration and Congress how to change the Endangered Species Act, the 31-year-old law they say
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It is often said that national trends originate in California. By voting yes on Proposition 72 next Tuesday, California voters have a chance to start a positive national trend toward solving our health care crisis.
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Gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman got big applause from University of Texas students Wednesday with a call to decriminalize marijuana, but his plan to step up the National Guard presence on the border seemed to get lukewarm support.
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Farmers are part of a national movement to legalize growing a plant that is closely associated with marijuana.