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Sommer Hollingsworth, president of the Nevada Development Authority, which works to attract employers to southern Nevada, observed that of about 350 firms his group sought to recruit over the past year, "we've never had anyone ask about the nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, but client after client wants to know what we are going to do about the doctor situation. The quality of the medical system plays a big role for companies choosing to relocate...
...Ballots are awfully crowded nationwide with this buck-passing. This November, voters in various states will weigh two different marijuana proposals - San Francisco's and a Nevada plan to legalize the possession of less than three ounces - as well as initiatives to reduce public employees' benefits, raise taxes, create a universal health care system, force unions to offer so-called paycheck protection to members and impose term limits...
Time To Waste After 24 years and $4 billion in studies, the U.S. Senate approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's first permanent nuclear-waste storage site. The controversial facility will hold 77,000 tons of waste from 103 reactors...
...aside, I’ve had the opportunity to meet hundreds of people from all walks of life. I took a two-week leave from the congressional campaign to help an organization trying to legalize marijuana in the state. With this group, I led a team to rural northern Nevada so we could gather enough signatures for the initiative to appear on the ballot. My crack team of volunteers consisted of a failed stand-up comic, an ex-felon who spent the 1990s in California State Penitentiary (a reformed pimp and carjacker), and his girlfriend. While this alone could have...
...whole day, and I had not yet gotten a progress report from Team Homeless. At just past dinnertime, I received a call on my cell phone from the pregnant epileptic, telling me that both men in her team had been arrested for not carrying identification, apparently a crime in Nevada. I explained the situation to the police, and the men were released. The following morning, I awoke to the news that a grandfather of one of the men had died, so the couples needed to return to Reno. Just another setback in accomplishing our goal; I could deal with...