A judge's ruling has cleared the way for the Navajos, the nation's second largest Indian tribe after the Cherokees, to vote on their first two ballot initiatives. One measure would reduce the size of the tribal council. The other would give the tribe's president a line-item veto. The Associated Press has a very thorough story on the tribe's governing history here.

Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church in East Helena, Montana, had supported a 2004 ballot initiative declaring that marriage was between a man and a woman. So state officials said the church was an "incidental campaign committee" and had to disclose its expenditures. A federal appeals court ruled this week that the state got it wrong and violated the church's First Amendment rights in the process, according to the AP.

It's not just California. The Associated Press looks at how voter-approved initiatives are adding to the budget headaches in several cash-strapped states.