The conduct of Marshfield’s Town Meeting is dictated by Federal and State law, the Town’s Charter and By-Laws, local tradition, and the publication entitled, "Town...
All officers of the city, as defined in section 1207, and all employees of the city and any and all agencies and instrumentalities thereof, including...
Montana had a ban on corporate contributions to ballot issue campaigns until 1976, when it was thrown out by the courts. In 1996, however, Montana...
Passed by Wayne Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania by a 3-0 vote in 1998, this ordinance is primarily a "three strikes and you’re out" ordinance. It...
Whereas, the City of Northampton has a long and distinguished history of protecting and expanding civil rights and civil liberties, often being a beacon for...
Efforts to privatize government services in cities and states do not always save the city money, replace well paid and benefited largely unionized public workers...
Barnstead, New Hampshire, became the first municipal government in the United States to ban corporations from pumping out a drop of water for sale elsewhere....
Some communities have passed laws that prevent serial law-breaking corporations from doing busines within their community.… Read More
Logging communities (or agricultural and mining communities in general) gain little when their principal resource is exported unprocessed. In the case of wood, every million...
Initiatives and referendums are one of this country’s forms of direct democracy. There is no national initiative or referendum process in the United States, but...
While some reformers believe that campaign finance reform will cure many of the ills of our election process, others feel the key is proportional representation,...
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) is leading the charge in encouraging communities around the country to enact some form of a Civil Liberties...
At one time more than 100 large cities nationwide require their employees to live within city boundaries. But over the last decade, some of these...