1.   Another major challenge could come next year should voters approve a statewide ballot initiative aimed at abolishing mobile-home rent control.

2.   On Wednesday, both sides of the hotly contested ballot initiative moved their battle into the courts.

3.   Over the years, the ballot initiative has brought California some of its most dramatic change.

4.   The ballot initiative qualified after the City Council approved the project last summer.

5.   The movement for ballot initiatives has cut across party lines.

6.   This California legislative history explains why patients resorted to a statewide ballot initiative.

7.   Almost singlehandedly, for instance, Soros financed successful ballot initiatives this fall in Arizona and California to permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

8.   Although Congress overrode that veto, a current California ballot initiative would allow more leeway for such suits within the state.

9.   An effort last year to end bilingual education with a ballot initiative failed after supporters were unable to submit signatures in time.

10.   And a ballot initiative in California to halt the use of racial preferences in hiring, college admissions and contracting is widely expected to be approved next November.