Ballot drop box set on fire in Vancouver last night. A Vancouver ballot box was burned in an arson Monday morning, authorities report - with hundreds of ballots possibly damaged in the fire. Investigators believe the incident is connected to two other arson incidents in...
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City of Berkeley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In 1916, New York City enacted its first-in-the-nation zoning ordinance. This kicked off a rapid and radical shift in land use governance.
Attentive readers will by now have noticed that, after nearly a year of covering every national election here, I've fallen off the wagon recently. Some of that was standard end.
I don't know if this is an important enough supreme court decision to trigger commentary from Paul or Scott, but a decision of some interest to those of us who follow housing and land use policy came down today. In Sheetz v County of El...
Today, Portugal will elect a new Assembly of the Republic, its 230 seat legislature. Just over two years ago, Antonio Costa's Socialist Party faced an early election caused by the.
In the last decade or so, the status quo of near-total deference to local governments on housing and land use policy, leading to exclusionary policies that create economy and middle.
Pakistan's election today lies somewhere in the vast space between a normal, proper democratic election and the absurd exercise that just took place in Azerbaijan. For a variety of reasons, this election will fall short of any reasonable threshold of "free" or "fair", but the...
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev's current term was supposed to extend through 2025, but following the destruction of the Republic of Artsakh and the recapture of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, he.
The main course is coming up in about five weeks, but before Portugal holds a national election, the Autonomous region of The Azores will hold a snap early election on.
In 2012, at the age of 30, Nayib Bukele, a grandson of Palestinian immigrants, president of a small marketing agency and the owner-manager of his family's Yamaha dealership, won the mayoralty of Nuevo Cuscatlán, a small town in the greater San Salvador area. Three years...
On September 25, 2008, Kiribati president Anote Tong gave a speech at the United Nations, on the subject of the eventual need to relocate the population of his and other.
Earlier this week Rob and I chatted with occasional LGM contributor and Reed College political science professor Chris Koski about the electoral landscape and prospects for 2024. A range of.