Local Green candidates look forward to next steps

URBANA – Local Greens are looking forward to the next election – including changing the way we vote.

They're also savoring Wisconsin, Illinois and Massachusetts "Bring Our Troops Home" ballot initiatives that Green Party candidates put to referendum. In City of Champaign and Cunningham townships, voters came out against greater involvement in the war in Iraq.

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