presidential positions

HERE is a link, provided by GRIST, on the two major candidates and their positions on Endangered Species.

Know who your voting for.

Rhode Island Question 1 and 2

Can anyone out there help me on this one? I cannot get much information, at all.

Question 1 and 2: Transportation and Open Spaces Bonds

Question 1:
– Authorize the Rhode Island state government to borrow $87,215,000.
– With the money, provide funds to the Department of Transportation to match available federal funds and to provide direct funding for improvements to the State’s highways, roads and bridges.
– Match available federal funds and to provide direct funding for commuter rail.
– Purchase new buses and/or rehabilitate existing buses in the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority’s bus fleet.

Question 2:
– Authorize the Rhode Island state government to borrow $2,500,000.
– With the money, provide funds to “purchase, or otherwise permanently protect through the purchase of title to, development rights, conservation easements and public recreation easements, greenways and other open space, recreation lands, agriculture lands, forested lands and state parks.”

My recommendation: ???

I’m sorry but I just don’t want to make a recommendation without more information. I cannot find anything about who supports or opposes this, what the true costs are, how it will be implemented, etc., etc.

Unless someone out there has some more information….? please.

Ohio Issue 2

Continuing series on Election 2008. This is the point where I find it so curious how other states label things…. do we have “issues” in California? Maybe this is a research item… the difference between a proposition, an issue, and a question. Huh.

Issue 2: Clean Ohio Fund Act

If approved by the voters, the measure would authorize the state to borrow $400 million for environmental conservation, preservation and revitalization purposes.

Argument FOR:
– It will not raise taxes.
– It will provide money for environmental clean-up and quality.
– It will create jobs.

Argument AGAINST:
– The economy is in bad condition. The state of Ohio should not be authorized to go into further debt; it should, instead, be tightening its belt and only spending money on immediate priorities.

My recommendation: YES

From what I can tell this has bipartisan support across the board; governor, senators, and other elected officials. It allows the Clean Ohio program to continue which has already created thousands of jobs, not to mention all the environmental support like clean water, preserving family farms, and clean up of abandoned industrial sites. The opposition states that the Ohio citizens have to pay all the money back that is borrowed, but with the creation of the jobs, it may be an even exchange.

HERE is the only website I could find.

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