Advisory questions to be on '08 ballots

CHAMPAIGN – Champaign and Urbana voters will weigh in on advisory referendums in the March 2008 primary.

In the City of Champaign Township, the advisory questions will ask voters if they support cutting off funding for the Iraq war; if they want to restore the level of general assistance funding to previous levels in the township; and if they want the federal law creating military commissions for terror detainees repealed or amended.

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