August 13, 2018
Daily Sun, Ted Escobar, August 10, 2018- The Washington Secretary of State’s Office has formally certified Initiative 1634 for the Nov. 6, 2018 general election ballot, and it could be the ballot item that brings out the voters. It aims to protect the state from a tax most voters oppose, …
August 8, 2018
King 5 News, Staff, August 6, 2018- Washington voters will decide this November whether local governments should be barred from placing new taxes on soda or other grocery items. Last week, the secretary of state’s office certified Initiative 1634 to appear on the ballot. Supporters submitted more than 380,000 signatures …
August 8, 2018
KOMO News, Staff, August 6, 2018- Washington state voters will decide this November whether local governments should be barred from placing new taxes on soda or other grocery items. Last week, the Secretary of State’s Office certified Initiative 1634 to appear on the ballot. Supporters submitted more than 380,000 signatures …
August 6, 2018
Ed Source, David Washburn, July 31, 2018- It had, in many respects, become the little movement that could. After more than a decade of failed attempts at both the state and local levels to impose soda taxes, health advocates scored a watershed victory in 2014 when Berkeley voters approved by a two-thirds …
August 2, 2018
New York Food Policy Center, Gabrielle Khalife, August 1, 2018- California, the nation’s first state to pass a soda tax, approved of a statewide soda tax ban on June 28, 2018. Assembly Bill 1838 was passed in response to the Tax Fairness, Transparency and Accountability Act of 2018, a ballot measure sponsored …