Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...homes help their neighbors? Maybe this is not just Chicago's problem. Would this, could this occur in my city? Let's all learn from the tragedy and consider who in our neighborhoods would benefit from some basic human compassion during a time of need. PAULA WELLS-HUTCHISON Elko, Nevada...
...Several men in leadership positions are trying to keep the Senate Ethics Committee from holding hearings," she said. "It's pretty partisan. The Ethics committee has three Republicans and three Democrats. It's been reported that the three Democrats, especially Sen. Richard Bryan (D. Nevada), want public hearings, the three Republicans...
...doesn't shine on the desert towns where California, Arizona and Nevada converge. It glares, searing the asphalt highways lined with truck stops and trailer parks until the air shimmers with heat. In the neon nights, the listless and the luckless -- dropouts, boozers, gamblers and speed freaks -- take refuge in cheap motels. No one knows how many drifters travel the roads, how many alienated Americans hole up in motel rooms, in anger or despair. No one can even say if there are more of the rootless in this desolate corner of America than elsewhere. Theirs is an invisible subculture...
...white plastic chair by the ice machine at the Highland Motel in Bullhead City, Arizona; hang around the parking lot at the El Rey Motel in Searchlight, Nevada; knock on doors at the Desert Inn Motel in Needles, California, and the sad stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told...
...hamburger on a hot plate. A 27-year-old Native American, he traveled to Bullhead City from Oakland, California, with his brother, who "painted a beautiful picture of good work and higher pay. I should have known it was bull." Across the river is the casino boomtown of Laughlin, Nevada, and his brother, a gambler, landed in jail for a bad check, Gibson says. Now Gibson, who spent his teenage years in an Oregon correction facility, works in a Kingman plastics factory. But he dreams of heading to Northern California to pan for gold. "Nothing I love better than being...