PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

From the open publishing newswire, Stephen Donahue writes:

Those who are neither Democrats nor Republicans are being asked to flock to the polls on May 17 because Pennsylvania law makers have got a couple of questions put on the ballot that day.

One ballot question is called Growing Greener II and it asks us if we want to let, "the commonwealth borrow up to $625 million for the maintenance and protection of the environment, open space and farmland preservation, watershed protection, abandoned mine remediation, and other environmental initiatives?"

The other ballot question is called "Row Office Reform." Row Office Reform is being touted as a sort of cure all by its proponents. First of all they call it "reform." Just what is "reform" anyhow?

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