On Tuesday, citizens across the country will vote on ballot measures, a number of them at the city level. Most city ballot measures deal with hyper-local issues (taxes, sidewalks, libraries, zoos), but some end up having national reverberations. Bigger metros can serve as a legislative testing ground, paving the way for smaller ones to implement copycat regulations. It was a city ballot initiative in the Seattle suburb of SeaTac that led around 40 other cities and states to raise the minimum wage, after all.
Below are some of the ballot measures to keep an eye on:
