The underlying issue: Barbra Streisand's recent suggestion that she would be willing to join a boycott of Colorado, the state whose voters last month overturned laws guaranteeing civil rights to homosexuals.

Grampa comes very close to dying but Chief Wiggum ends the procedure just in time, telling the doctor that voters have overturned Springfield's assisted-suicide law.

"We raised $15,000 to pay for petitions soliciting the referendum and the campaign to persuade voters to overturn the Town Council's original vote not to condemn the property."

Should the voters overturn the appropriation, the entire issue of relocating the school offices would return to the 12-member Town Council for reconsideration, First Selectman Richard Bond said.

Previously, a section of Grand Avenue was renamed for Chávez in 1994, but the voters overturned the decision.

After the law was passed, a "people's veto" referendum campaign was begun and the voters overturned the law in November 2009, by a 53-47 margin.

The legislature passed a bill early last year revising the tax, but voters overturned it in a referendum last November after the construction industry and some small businesses mounted a campaign against the changes.

It has called for a referendum that would allow voters to overturn the City Council's decision.

The state's voters overturned the ban on parimutuel wagering in 1987, and in the following years several small horse tracks opened.