Word: nevadas
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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...
...alright.” They’re either clueless or lying. I left Logan airport early one morning in late May, where the crisp 55-degree weather was perfectly appropriate for a sport coat, dress shirt and loafers. I was, after all, being met in Nevada by a staffer of Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.), for whose re-election campaign I’m working this summer. As any go-getter knows, first impressions mean everything...
...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...
...screen before entering the ring , a ripple of boos started that were quickly drowned out by a prolonged chorus of cheers from the predominantly Tyson crowd. As State Representative Joe Towns, who had lobbied to land the fight back in January when it was chased out of Nevada, said, "I'm with Mike. He's bad! And he's American...