Tag Archives: Initiative

AALL’s Innovation Bootcamp: Add+Venture Initiative

[Ed. Note: We’ve talked a lot recently about innovation, design thinking, creativity, and curiosity. If you are wondering where you can go to do some hands-on learning, then the American Association of Law Libraries’ Innovation Bootcamp might be for you. … Continue reading

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Guest Blogger Gregory Dotson: Oregon May Join the Western Climate Initiative: What About Gasoline Prices?

Oregon is on the verge of taking historic action to establish an economy-wide cap and invest program and clean up the state’s carbon pollution. In doing so, Oregon could demonstrate how one state can do its part to avoid the … Continue reading

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Californians Split on Gas Tax Repeal Initiative

While the proposal to split California into three states won’t be on the November ballot, an equally divisive one will be. Proposition 6 cancels a 12-cent gas tax increase that went into effect November 1, 2017 (with similar increases to … Continue reading

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Update on the OCC’s Initiative for the Special Purpose National Bank Charter

Nineteen months have passed since the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency launched its initiative for fintech companies, specifically asserting the OCC’s authority under the National Bank Act to grant a “special purpose national bank charter.”  In his testimony before … Continue reading

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Supreme Court removes split-California initiative from November ballot, with possibility of a vote at a future election

Concluding that “significant questions have been raised regarding the . . . validity” of the initiative seeking to split California into three states, the Supreme Court this afternoon — ruling in Planning and Conservation League v. Padilla — ordered the initiative … Continue reading

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