Word: nevadas
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...this summer, Republicans hit on the suddenly popular idea of drilling for more oil. But the market meltdown has replaced $4-per-gal. gas as voters' top concern, and ever since Herbert Hoover, voters have looked to Democrats in economic hard times. "We're not catching a break," laments Nevada Senator John Ensign, Schumer's GOP counterpart who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
...landscapers and nurseries. The microchips, which are inserted with a syringe, will help authorities identify stolen plants. Seventeen Carnegiea gigantea were stolen from Arizona's Saguaro National Park last year; they sell for about $1,000 each. The saguaro isn't the only cactus to be microchipped; Arizona and Nevada put chips in barrel cacti...
...Nevada authorities raided the Las Vegas offices off the community group ACORN - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - on allegations that the group submitted fraudulent voter registration cards. , featuring nonexistent addresses, duplicate applicants and in at least some cases, the names of the Dallas Cowboys football team. The McCain campaign has also released an ad linking Barack Obama to ACORN, reiterating the voter fraud allegations and claiming the organization "forced banks to issue risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we're in today...
...addition to the Nevada raid, voter registration drives in several other states have been scrutinized, while the group's campaigns to demand fair housing loan practices has opened it up to charges that it advocated risky subprime mortgages. On its website, ACORN has called the allegations of voter fraud "bogus" and "unfounded." The organization says it works with authorities and identifies all the fraudulent forms that it can, and that the campaign against its registration drives is a ploy to "disparage our work and help maintain the status quo of an unbalanced electorate...
...Finding a balance between secrecy and disclosure is a tricky business, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid discovered on Oct. 1. After the Democrat from Nevada emerged from a luncheon on Capitol Hill, he spoke briefly to reporters about the financial crisis, mentioning that another insurance company was in danger of following AIG into failure. "One of the individuals in the caucus today talked about a major insurance company - a major insurance company, one with a name that everyone knows - that's on the verge of going bankrupt," Reid said. The senator stopped short of identifying the company, which might...