Proposition 26

HuffPost's Laura Bassett Talks 'Personhood'

Huff TV | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Abortion, Roe v Wade, Personhood Amenmdment, Anti-Abortion Movement, Elections 2011, Personhood Movement, Proposition 26, Mississippi Personhood, Video, Mississippi, Personhood Abortion, Personhood, Birth Control, Mississippi Proposition 26, Mississippi Abortion, Politics News
Huff TV

The Huffington Post's Laura Bassett appeared on Current TV's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on Tuesday to discuss Mississippi's Personhood amendment...

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An Acorn Is Not an Oak

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Anti-Abortion, Mississippi Personhood, Personhood Amendment, Proposition 26, Anti-Abortion Bill, Abortion Rights, Prop 26, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Clearly somewhere between a just-fertilized egg and a baby about to exit the birth canal lies a distinction between potentially human and human. Because that line is difficult to draw does not mean that the line does not exist.

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Laura Bassett

Mississipi 'Personhood' Law Leaves Legal Questions Beyond The Ballot

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Abortion, Proposition 26, Video, Mississippi-Abortion, Mississippi-Personhood, Haley Barbour, Personhood USA, Personhood Amendments, Politics News

If Mississippians vote to pass an unprecedented initiative on Tuesday that would declare a fertilized egg a legal person under the state Constitution,...

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Chevron Spending $4 million on Prop 26, Prop 23's Stealthier Twin

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proposition 26, Proposition 23, Chevron, Koch Brothers, Big Oil, California Proposition 8, Green News
Rebecca Tarbotton

Co-authored by Steve Kretzmann, executive director of Oil Change International Chevron CEO John Watson recently insisted his company is neutral on C...

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Twin Attacks on Our Clean Energy Future

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attacks, Proposition 26, Proposition 23, California, 350.Org, Big Oil, Climate Change, Elections 2010, Sierra Club, Global Warming, Climate Disruption, Green News
Michael Brune

Where Proposition 23 is a blatant assault, Proposition 26 is more like a sneak attack. It's confusing, badly written, and pretending to be something it's not.

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A Chance to Restore Honesty and Integrity to Taxes and Spending

Mark Ridley-Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proposition 26, Proposition 25, Los Angeles News
Mark Ridley-Thomas

In the past 30 years, California has slipped from being a world leader in education, health care and public policy innovation to our current status as a case study in broken government. On Tuesday voters can fix that.

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The Other California Ballot Horror

Preeti Vissa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proposition 26, Proposition 23, Valero, Chevron, Philip Morris, Pollution, Tesoro, California, Politics News
Preeti Vissa

Instead of polluters paying for the harm they cause, taxpayers will get stuck with the bill

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We, The People

Elissa D. Barrett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Budget, Prop 25, Proposition 26, California, Prop 26, Proposition 25, Los Angeles News
Elissa D. Barrett

This is the third piece of a weekly series in which the Progressive Jewish Alliance looks at the propositions on this year's California ballot in light of the weekly Torah portion.

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Think Prop 23 Is Bad? So Is Prop 26

Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Proposition 26, California, Proposition 23, November Election, Green Jobs, Unemployment, ab32, Valero, 2010 Midterm Elections, Tesoro, California Ballot Proposition, Green News
Mike Sandler

If you think Prop 23 is bad, check out Prop 26. This one has a lower profile, but could be just a terrible for the green economy.

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