Council members Team Dave Snyder and Nader Baroukh were forced on Friday afternoon to reveal their plans to hold a citywide referendum within the next sixty (60) days on whether or not to move local elections to November. A council resolution calling for an emergency advisory [...]
Falls Church City changed its local elections in 1973 from June to May in response to an administrative change made in Richmond. Moving local elections was done by city council ordinance, not by public referendum, and it did not result in partisan elections or the extension of any [...]
Apparently, the Swiss may be neutral but they aren’t very tolerant:
PARIS — Voters in Switzerland decided Sunday to ban the building of minarets, in a referendum that showed an unexpected level of resentment against Muslim immigrants in a country long known for discretion and tolerance.
Opinion polls in recent months [...]
