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...drug czar is ready for pro wrestling. He already has the name, and now he's got the prefight talk down cold. In every speech he makes in Nevada, where Bush appointee John Walters has traveled to fight an initiative that would legalize marijuana, he calls out his three sworn enemies as if he were Tupac Shakur. The czar has a problem with billionaire philanthropists George Soros, Peter Lewis and John Sperling, who have bankrolled the pro-pot movement, and he wants everyone to know he's ready for battle. At an Elks lodge meeting in Las Vegas, he ticks...
While Howell points out that nine other states have no income tax, Widmer of the Taxpayers Foundation says this argument is misleading. Six of those states compensate with higher real-estate and sales taxes, and the other three (Nevada, Alaska and Wyoming) benefit from rich natural resources or gambling revenue...
This November, many eyes will watch Nevada as it votes on a state initiative to legalize marijuana. We are confident that, as in the past, voters will come out against the federal government’s hard line views and demonstrate the strength of the public’s support for legalizing marijuana...
...familiar breed around Los Angeles: a filmmaker bitter that his work remains overlooked by the public. He spent years on his self-produced documentary A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, in which he contends that nasa staged the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing in the Nevada desert. He sought recognition last week from BUZZ ALDRIN, who flew on the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin arrived at a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel expecting to be interviewed for Japanese TV. Instead, he encountered Sibrel brandishing a Bible and demanding that Aldrin swear he had walked on the moon. Aldrin...
Last week Utah announced it was removing some of the more difficult questions from its statewide exams. Ohio recently "refined" its criteria for calculating low-performing schools; afterward, the number receiving Fs fell from 760 to 200. Michigan, California and Nevada are weighing similar actions. Says California's state schools chief Delaine Eastin: "We're almost surely going to have to lower what we define as proficient." Experts warn that the incentive to dumb down standards will only grow as the stricter provisions of the new law take effect, a move that could brand more than 70% of schools...