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Accordingly, citizens' tax burdens would balloon to support the dead weight of these redundant yet autonomous bureaucracies. States with small populations would feel the inefficiencies most. California's bureaucracy would easily be able to handle Nevada's comparatively tiny needs, but no, Nevada has to have its own departments for its own block grants. States would be smart to combine their efforts, but then, isn't that exactly what they...
...Burnett says he and several magazine staff members were called last year before a federal grand jury in Portland that was investigating Shannon's involvement in a series of arsons. When the indictment was handed up, only Shannon was charged in attacks at nine clinics in Oregon, California, Nevada and Idaho. Prosecutors and federal agents are still pressuring her to implicate others. "There is no question that the government thinks she possesses a wealth of knowledge about the radical end of the antiabortion movement," says Andrew Bates, her lawyer. But so far, Shannon has refused to talk...
...Emboldened by the Republican takeover of Congress, a growing number of ordinary citizens, as well as local and state government officials, are rejecting federal authority and fighting for what they believe are their property rights. Last week the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Nye County in Nevada from taking over federal lands and intimidating federal officials. Associate Attorney General John Schmidt said the Justice Department suit was intended to send a signal to other rebel movements in California, Idaho, New Mexico and Oregon and "put to rest the idea that any county has the right to enact...
Tensions have been running highest in Nevada. In 1993, Nye County adopted two resolutions asserting state ownership and control of public properties in its borders, including all roads. Last July 4, Nye County commissioner Richard Carver, flouting federal law, used a bulldozer to break open a road in a national forest and then filed a criminal complaint against forest-service workers who tried to stop him. Last week, even in the face of the federal suit, the Nevada state senate passed a measure that sought to strengthen the state's claims to federal lands...
Government scientists who blew up two atomic bombs on the sands of the Nevada desert during the early Cold War were well aware that the fallout could have harmed civilians. Secret documents released by a presidential commission today quote scientists describing the health risk as a necessary "gamble." The1951 Defense Department project sought to study the effects of radioactive fallout -- despite the fact this meant using American citizens as the lab animals. The ground-level explosions were followed by above-ground blasts that continued until the early 1960s. Natural Resources Defense Council historian Stan Norris told TIME Daily that...