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Board OKs petition form for abortion proposal
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An anti-abortion group seeking to ban Michigan health insurance plans from covering abortions without a supplemental policy cleared an early hurdle Wednesday in its effort to take the proposal to voters, even without Republican...Tags: Women's Health, Elections, Rick Snyder, Family Planning, Incest
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Wolf hunt referendum to go on 2014 Michigan ballot
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's election board on Wednesday certified the signatures of a group seeking to ban wolf hunting and a referendum will be placed on the November 2014 ballot, but the outcome of the vote could be meaningless. The Board...
Tags: Referenda, Elections, Lifestyle and Leisure, Rick Snyder, Politics
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Ind. schools seeing more success with tax hikes
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana school districts that won voters' approval last week for the majority of the tax increases they had sought to boost school funding may be becoming more skilled at selling the public on the need for those tax hikes, say...Tags: Referenda, Elections, Politics, Taxation
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With a population of 658, Snyder clears way for recently-endangered wolves to be hunted
Additional information from WSBT-TVTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill Wednesday that takes the decision to hunt or not hunt wolves out of voters' hands. It clears the way to schedule Michigan's first gray wolf hunting season since the animal was driven to...Tags: Elections, Government, Rick Snyder, Conservation, Science and Technology
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Polls open for special elections in Michigan
Polls in Michigan are open for the 2013 special elections. Some voters in our area are deciding on several important issues, including how much tax money they are willing to spend on education. Several school issues are on the ballots for voters to...
Tags: Stevensville, Elections, Politics
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Parties propose vote center locations
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Members of the St. Joseph County vote center committee began to hash out possible locations Wednesday. Both major political parties provided lists of suggested locations. From a list of 45 possible locations from the Democrats and 30 from...Tags: Elections, Politics, Local Elections
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Wolf hunt opponents: Legislation an attempt to suppress voice of the people
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Republican-led state Senate approved legislation Thursday that could block a group's effort to ban wolf hunting in Michigan and make hunting and fishing rights a part of the state constitution. Wolves were taken off the...
Tags: Referenda, Elections, Government, Rick Snyder, Conservation
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Niles panel mulling even-year elections
South Bend TribuneNILES -- It appears odd-year elections, except for the special variety, may be on their way out in the city of Niles. The Niles City Council approved without comment on Monday night a 12-item consent agenda in which one of the measures called for...Tags: Elections, Primaries, Politics, Local Elections
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Second guilty plea in St. Joseph County ballot petition fraud scandal
A second person accused of ballot petition fraud admitted Tuesday she certified ballot petitions that had fake signatures, but Bam Brunette said she never forged any signatures to get Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton on the 2008 presidential primary...
Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Four accused in election fraud scandal appear in court
WSBT TV ReporterKaren Nolan says her signature is something important – something she always thinks about carefully before signing. But when she saw her name and her husband’s next to what appears to be their forged signatures on a 2008 ballot petition for...Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Lawyers
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Obama recasts birth control debate on own terms
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is casting the contraception controversy as an issue of women's rights, not religious freedom, seizing on what backers see as a political gift from Rush Limbaugh to firm up support from women and young...Tags: White House, Barack Obama, John McCain, John Boehner, Democratic Party
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Indiana secretary of state talks vote centers with county elections officials
WSBT-TVStay with precincts or switch to vote centers? It's a question that Indiana counties will have to decide but they are getting some help from the state in the form of information. The Indiana Secretary of State held a regional meeting on vote...Tags: Elections, Regional Elections, Polls, Politics, Local Elections
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