To hear Peter Sherr tell it, he owes his recent political success to the popularity of the town dump and Tod's Point. "I had no idea the dump was such an incredibly busy place on Saturday mornings," ...

A group of housing advocates is cheering the news that its petitions for ballot measures to close the Boulder Municipal Airport and turn the area into a neighborhood have officially garnered enough ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission will determine whether there are enough valid signatures on the petitions submitted Monday to trigger a recall election of Republican ...

Advocacy organization Let’s Go Washington is gathering signatures on a petition to ask the Washington Legislature to repeal the state’s new carbon pricing system. Conservatives are saying the new ...

As long as humans have been writing down important information, others have been pulling their leg. So it's no surprise that serious petitions to governments have always been interspersed with ...

A successful petition drive thwarted plans by the El Paso County Hospital District, Texas, to issue $345.7 million of certificates of obligation to finance expansion projects at its University Medical ...

Every member of the House Democratic caucus has signed on to a discharge petition in an effort to force a vote on a debt limit increase without spending cuts or House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) ...

Kirstin Walsh, appointed in late January to the Newport Mesa Unified School Board, has been ousted following a successful petition campaign to force instead a special election to fill the vacant seat.

Overall participation in labor unions has declined in recent years in Illinois, although the state has seen an increase in successful unionization efforts for the second year in a row. That’s ...

Florida and Kansas officials are accusing two petition circulators of forging voter signatures during campaigns to put an abortion rights measure to a vote in Florida and allow the No Labels party to ...