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Amid the generally dismal election news, there were occasional positive results, and several of these came from a most unlikely place: San Francisco.(The Week)(Brief article)

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Amid the generally dismal election news, there were occasional positive results, and several of these came from a most unlikely place: San Francisco. Its citizens resoundingly rejected a proposal to name a sewage-treatment plant after George W. Bush, and another to decriminalize prostitution; one-quarter of them even voted against same-sex marriage. Best of all, San Francisco voters reversed their city council's decision to banish the Junior Reserve Officers' Training ...

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