Word: nevadas
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Where Hispanics have just arrived, they've only just begun to crack the city councils, the school boards and the county commissions. Though Hispanics account for one-fifth of Nevada's population, there are only two Latinos in the 63-member state legislature, and virtually none hold local office in the cities and counties where they are the most highly concentrated. "We're on the ground floor of political empowerment," says Gonzalez...
...years ago, the Institute of Medicine concluded that marijuana has potential therapeutic value. Polls show nearly three-quarters of Americans favor medical-marijuana use, and juries are increasingly reluctant to convict sick people for possession. Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii have set up state registries for medipot users; Colorado, California, Nevada and Maine are debating similar moves. Such grassroots enthusiasm carries little weight with drug warriors, who dispute the scientific data and argue that marijuana leads to hard narcotics. In an interview with TIME last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft praised the Supreme Court decision. "We can't function well...
...heart when he jumped the fence Thursday. The rebirth of nuclear energy? Well, the private sector won't build any more plants until they've got a place to dump the waste, and Jeffords was handed the job as a reward by its true heir, Harry Reid of Nevada. Where he vigorously opposes the opening of Yucca Mountain for said storage purposes...
...Douglas Waller:Key Senate Democrats like Harry Reid (the minority whip from Nevada) have been intensively wooing Jeffords to try to get him to defect from the Republican Party. And while the efforts have definitely stepped up over the last couple of weeks, it has just been an intensification of a long history of wooing; because of his propensity to vote with Democrats as often as he votes with Republicans, Jeffords has been a target for defection his entire Senate career...
...Environment and Public Works GOP chair: Robert Smith, New Hampshire Democratic chair: Harry Reid, Nevada, or James Jeffords, Vermont Effect of change: This was one of the Democrats? key bargaining tools with Jeffords, whose environmental stance is far more moderate than ultraconservative Smith...