Breathe Easy of Cape Girardeau has cleared a huge hurdle toward its goal of getting a smoking ban on a citywide ballot, possibly as early as April.
City Clerk Gayle Conrad confirmed that the petition had a sufficient number of signatures to get the issue on the ballot. Cape Girardeau County Clerk Kara Clark Summers verified 2,571 of the signatures that the group collected. The required number is 2,441, or about 10 percent of registered voters.
Clark said she intended to officially certify...
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