Proposition 16 is on the ballot this November in California and seeks to repeal the state’s ban on the use of affirmative action on the basis of race or sex in public employment, public education and public contracting. More specifically, the proposition seeks to repeal Proposition 209, passed in 1996, which made California the first state to place a constitutional ...

A split-roll tax initiative set to be on the 2020 November ballot aims to modify Proposition 13, requiring businesses to pay property taxes at a rate higher than that imposed on residential properties, officials said.  The 2020 ballot initiative would amend the state constitution to require commercial and industrial properties, except those zoned as commercial agriculture, to be taxed based ...