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...With her husband Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen often created large outdoor sculptures like the 38-ft.-tall (12 m) flashlight she installed at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Van Bruggen...
...amazed that after all these years--and all the wars on drugs and all the public-service announcements--nearly 15 million Americans still use marijuana at least once a month. California and 10 other states have already decriminalized marijuana for medical use. Now two of those states--Colorado and Nevada--are considering ballot initiatives that would legalize up to an ounce of pot for personal use by people 21 and older, whether or not there is a medical need...
...Nevada and Colorado marijuana initiatives have gained support from unlikely places. More than 33 religious leaders in Nevada have endorsed the measure, arguing that permissive legalization, accompanied by stringent regulations and penalties, can cut down on illegal drug trafficking and make communities safer...
...fall of 2007, federal agents raided 11 McDonald's restaurants in the Reno, Nev., area, rounding up 56 employees on suspicion of working in the country illegally. A couple of weeks later, Barack Obama, then a long-shot candidate for President stumping through Nevada, was asked about the Bush Administration's policy of sporadic workplace immigration raids...
Sales and gaming taxes fill up about two-thirds of the state's coffers. In the past few years, tax revenues for Nevada had been gaining at a double-digit rate. Now they are forecast to shrink 9% in 2009. The state is probably going to have to cut in places like education and social services - and get creative with some new taxes on business. Even the Chamber of Commerce, usually an ardent opponent of business taxes, has discussed raising taxes for the first time...