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That, perhaps, is one of the few eventualities for which the owner of northern Nevada's only abortion clinic remains unprotected. After his former clinic in downtown Reno was fire-bombed four times, Stutes acknowledges, "I was mad as hell -- and afraid." Today, he is still angry, but has less cause for fear: his new $1 million West End Women's Medical Group clinic, which opened in November, is a high-tech fortress with solid steel doors and magnetic locks, bullet-resistant windows, infrared motion detectors, panic buttons to summon police and a 70-ft. setback planted with thorn trees...
Jaksha's attitude, however, was anything but fringe. He was supporting the ballot proposition to limit the terms of congressional officeholders, a measure that rolled to victory Nov. 8 in Nebraska and six other states: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada. Only voters in Utah, which earlier had adopted limits, turned down a proposed addition to their restrictions. The past election brings to 22 the number of states that have imposed term limits on members of Congress since 1990. "It would be pointless to mount an opposition," said Ernie Chambers, a 24-year veteran in the Nebraska state senate...
...TERM LIMITS: Voters adopted them for congressional posts and other offices in Alaska, Colorado, District of Columbia, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Nevada...
TAXES: Oregon, Missouri and Montana rejected a requirement to put all new tax proposals to public vote. Nevada approved a two-thirds legislative approval for tax increases. Massachusetts rejected a graduated income tax in favor of the current flat rate. Arizona passed a cigarette-tax increase. Colorado rejected one. Oklahoma rejected a 1-cent entertainment tax that would have paid for breast-cancer research...
Propositions supporting term limits were approved in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, and Washington, D.C.; Utah rejected a tightening of existing limits...