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...Whiting, Iowa, ground has been set aside while a decision is awaited about whether to charge people who take land for utilities. "There will be new houses on that land no matter what," promises Mayor Nancy Brenden. In Chugwater--aptly named, considering its place on the long, dry Oregon Trail traveled by early settlers--the first taker has just signed up. "We have all this new energy in town," says Mayor Krista West. "People are excited...
With the court's recent decision that federal drug laws override Oregon's statute allowing marijuana use for medical purposes, the states'-rights revolution that many conservatives have trumpeted over the past decade has lost some momentum. But that doesn't mean the movement that helped overturn the Gun Free School Zones Act, part of the Violence Against Women Act and portions of the Americans with Disabilities Act is finished. Other cases that the court will deal with in the near future concern federal authority over homemade machine guns and possession of child pornography...
Although the court refused to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case this spring, that was far from the last word it will have on the right to die. Next term the court is scheduled to hear the Bush Administration's challenge to Oregon's law that allows doctors to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill patients. The Federal Government says Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide is a violation of the Controlled Substances Act, a claim rejected by the lower courts. The Justices ruled in 1997 that state laws banning assisted suicide are constitutional. Still, given...
...Declines offer to become Governor of Oregon...
...Plan & the Purpose." The FBI beefed up its Mississippi forces to 153 men?ten times the normal complement. The contingent was headed by able Roy K. Moore, 50, a native of Oregon and a 26-year FBI veteran. Around Philadelphia agents met almost as much hostility as the civil rights workers had?one found several snakes in his car one morning. But the FBI built its case persistently. Agents infiltrated the White Knights of the Klan and paid out several thousand dollars for information...