Petition seeks bar entry age of 18 in Iowa City (The Gazette) 10 Mar 2010
No one expected Iowa City’s 21-and-older bar debate to be settled without a fight — and it’s not going to be. A petition drive was started Tuesday to try to force a public vote to lower Iowa City’s bar entry age to 18 from the current 19 after 10 p.m. Organizers said their goal was to stop [...]
Councilor, lawyer mum on petition challenge (Stillwater NewsPress) 10 Mar 2010
Stillwater City Councilor Darrell Dougherty has issued a legal challenge to the validity of a petition calling for his recall. The filing states the councilor is defending the rights of voters but he challenge could silence voters not in his camp.
Stillwater city councilor challenges recall petition (Stillwater NewsPress) 10 Mar 2010
Stillwater City Councilor Darrell Dougherty is trying to invalidate a preliminary petition seeking his ouster. Dougherty filed a legal challenge to the petition in Payne County District Court Monday.
Stillwater City Council member’s response to recall petition due Monday (Stillwater NewsPress) 10 Mar 2010
Stillwater City Council Darrell Dougherty must turn in a response to a preliminary recall petition Monday or else accusations made against him will go unchallenged in the formal petition.
Online NB Power petition rejected (CBC New Brunswick) 10 Mar 2010
The New Brunswick government has rejected several hundred names on a 5,500-name petition against the NB Power deal, saying petitions must include signatures to be valid and the names in question were collected online.
Wednesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories - - March 10, 2010 (MalaysiaNews.net) 10 Mar 2010
See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it’s a problem that developed when Interactiv…
Petition absent from Springfield City Council gun resolution (The Springfield News-Leader) 10 Mar 2010
A citizen-led petition that City Councilman Nick Ibarra supports — and whose efforts he attempted to recognize — opposes any infringement on the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.
England Fans Demand Cheryl Cole Reunite With Ashley For World Cup (Anorak) 10 Mar 2010
CHERYL Cole and Ashley Cole: Anorak’s at-a-glace round-up of what some are calling England’s Last Chance
Mount Olive clerk certifies volunteer EMS petition (Daily Record) 10 Mar 2010
MOUNT OLIVE — Township clerk Lisa Lashway has certified a petition that could lead to a ballot initiative asking voters if they want Mount Olive to contract emergency medical services with the Budd Lake and Flanders first aid squads on weeknights and weekends through 2014.
CA junks habeas petition of 43 Morong health workers (Philippine Daily Inquirer) 10 Mar 2010
(UPDATE 3) The 43 detained health workers accused of being communist insurgents will remain in jail after the Court of Appeals dismissed the petition for habeas corpus filed by their relatives.
Court of Appeals junks ‘Morong 43’ petition (2:40 p.m.) (Sun Star) 10 Mar 2010
MANILA—The Court of Appeals has junked Wednesday the petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed for the camp of the so-called “Morong 43,” a television report said. read more
Carter launches whaling petition (Newstalk ZB via Yahoo!Xtra News) 9 Mar 2010
Labour is convinced John Key might be swayed by an online petition against commercial whaling.
Mother gives up 3-month-old baby at Grand Rapids fire station (The Muskegon Chronicle) 9 Mar 2010
A 3-month-old has been placed in the state’s care.
RTC orders status quo on contested DA lot (The Freeman) 9 Mar 2010
The Regional Trial Court has ordered a 30-day status quo on the contested property occupied by the Department of Agriculture which the Cebu provincial government sought to recover.
Some downtown Lawrence merchants want 15-minute parking meters to facilitate ‘quick business’ (Lawrence Journal-World) 9 Mar 2010
If a group of downtown merchants has its way, there soon may be a new twist to the parking meter system on Massachusetts Street.