Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The League of Women voters collected around 2,500 signatures on Election Day 2012 -- but there is more work to be done.
Although many local campaigns ended on Election Day, the Newton League of Women Voters (LWVN) is pressing on with its mission for a charter commission ballot question. The LWVN is currently collecting signatures for a ballot question that would ask voters in November 2013 whether the city should form a Newton Charter Commission, a nine-person committee that studies the Newton charter and proposes changes to the city government. The LWVN spent Election Day 2012 collecting signatures for the ballot question and managed to gather approximately 2,500 names. But, there's still plenty of work to do. According to LWVN Co-President Sue Flicop, the LWVN needs to collect about 4,200 more signatures to add to previous collection efforts and meet the…
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Newton League of Women Voters is collecting signatures to create a ballot question asking voters whether a commission should study the city charter.
It has been nearly 40 years since Newton voters made changes to the city's charter, a document that outlines the city's government and how it operates. Now, the Newton League of Women Voters (LWVN) is hoping to start the charter discussion again. "It's been 40 years and a lot has changed out there in the world," says LWVN Co-President Sue Flicop. "I think it is good governace to look at the structure of [Newton's] government." This election day (Nov. 6), the League will be hold a signature drive that will ask residents to support placing the question of a Newton Charter Commission on the 2013 ballot. If the question gets on the ballot and is approved in 2013, the nine-person commission would then study the Newton charter and propose …
Monday, June 4, 2012
The League voted at its annual meeting last week to start a signature drive to put the question of a Newton Charter Commission on the 2013 ballot.
The League of Women Voters Newton (LWVN) agreed last week to work on creating a charter commission, a group that will study the city's charter and review how the city's government operates. In a press release issued Monday, June 4, the LWVN announced its plans to start a signature drive that would ask residents to support placing the question of a Newton Charter Commission on the 2013 ballot. The LWVN voted in favor of starting the drive at its annual meeting on May 30, 2012. "It has been 41 years since the citizens of Newton conducted a formal review of how our city government works, and much has changed in our community and our society since then," the press release read. According to the press release, the LWVN conducted its own study …
Adam Maleson
2:26 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
If you look at the League of Women Voters' website they claim not to be a gender-specific organization now, despite the origins of the organization. I personally don't know why it continues to operate under this name which surely is obsolete, and does not change its name to something more fitting to its current purpose. For instance consider, how the Boys' Club changed its name a couple decades … more ›