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1. -01-19-08 Republican Romney Wins in Nevada (ABC News)
   "Based on entrance poll results, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will win the Nevada Republican Caucuses, his second victory this week after a disappointing loss in the Iowa caucus last month." 01-08

2. Romney Wins Nevada (MSNBC News)
   "Mitt Romney is projected to win Nevada's Republican caucuses, adding to the political momentum the former Massachusetts governor has built for his campaign." 02-12

3. Nevada (Weber Publications)
   Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Carson City. 10-00

4. Water Pollution Report Card for States (CBS News)
   "Two environmental groups released a review of government records Tuesday, showing that water pollution enforcement is failing in more than 40 states."
   
   "Friends of the Earth and the Environmental Working Group say these states have allowed critically important water pollution permits to expire, effectively issuing industries a license to pollute."
   
   "The review also concludes that there is currently little action afoot to correct this serious problem. Nevada, Rhode Island, Oregon and Nebraska all had more than two-thirds of their permits expired. Texas had the largest number of expired permits at 135." 9-03

5. -03-15-05 Reid Promises Strong Consequences If Republicans "Abuse Power" (Bloomberg.com)
   "Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid threatened to bring the Senate to a halt if Republicans try to change the chamber's rules to prevent the minority party from blocking President George W. Bush's judicial nominees."
   
   "Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said during a news conference at the Capitol that he would 'rather dance than fight' with Republican leaders. He said changing rules that the Senate has followed for two centuries would represent an 'arrogant abuse of power.' ''
   
   "During Bush's first term in office, the Senate confirmed 204 judicial nominees and Democrats blocked votes on 10 -- a confirmation rate of over 95 percent."
   
   "Bush renominated seven of those 10; two received recess appointments -- requiring that the Senate eventually review their nominations again. A third, Washington lawyer Miguel Estrada, formally withdrew his nomination."
   
   "During former President Bill Clinton's eight years in office, the Senate withheld a vote on 64 of Clinton's nominees."

6. Marfia Lights of Texas (USA Today)
   "Nevada has Area 51. New Mexico has Roswell. Texas has the Marfa Lights." 7-05

7. Editorial: The Impossible Will Take a Little While (Buzzflash.com - Loeb)
   "Inclusive faith respects the stories of all in the human community, and makes those stories the ground of our politics. It recognizes our profound interconnections, so that if we deny someone justice or damage the earth halfway around the globe, our actions may come back to haunt us at home, as occurred in 911, or with global warming."
   
   "Inclusive faith also recognizes that courage is contagious and that the actions of people in one community may light a spark in another -- the way the US anti-nuclear movement influenced people in the Soviet Union who modeled their actions on our Nevada test site protests, or the way that rebellious American rock music influenced the Czech rock band,that helped spearhead their democracy movement." 01-06

8. Starting the "Dark Ages" (Wikipedia.org)
   "In the years 535 and 536, several remarkable aberrations in world climate took place. The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, "during this year a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness… and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear." Tree ring analysis by dendrochronologist Mike Baillie, of the Queen's University of Belfast, shows abnormally little growth in Irish oak in 536 and another sharp drop in 542, after a partial recovery. Similar patterns are recorded in tree rings from Sweden and Finland, in California's Sierra Nevada and in rings from Chilean Alerce trees." 10-06

9. "The Future Is Drying Up" (New York Times)
   "When I met with [current Secretary of Energy] Chu last summer in Berkeley, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which provides most of the water for Northern California, was at its lowest level in 20 years. Chu noted that even the most optimistic climate models for the second half of this century suggest that 30 to 70 percent of the snowpack will disappear. 'There’s a two-thirds chance there will be a disaster,' Chu said, 'and that’s in the best scenario.' " 10-10

10. Editorial: The Real Rudy (New York Times)
    " 'There are times,' he declared, 'when undocumented aliens must have a substantial degree of protection.' They must feel safe sending their children to school. They should feel safe reporting crime to the police. 'Similarly, illegal and undocumented immigrants should be able to seek medical help without the threat of being reported. When these people are sick, they are just as sick and just as contagious as citizens.' "
    
    "At the moment, Giuliani and fellow moderate Mitt Romney are attacking each other for being insufficiently Tancredo-esque. They are not renouncing the policies they championed as city and state officials, but the emphasis as they run for federal office is all in the other direction. In effect, they are competing to drive away Hispanic votes and make the party unelectable in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Florida and the nation at large." 11-07

11. -05-13-09 RealtyTrac: April Foreclosures Rose 32 Percent (U.S. News)
    "The number of U.S. households faced with losing their homes to foreclosure jumped 32 percent in April compared with the same month last year, with Nevada, Florida and California showing the highest rates, according to data released Wednesday." 05-09

12. -11-07-09 California's Water Plan (Time.com)
    "For 50 years, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has funneled the Sierra Nevada snow runoff from the Sacramento Valley in the north to the giant farms in California's central valley and the now nearly 20 million people who live in Southern California. Both the economy and population of California are growing, but the amount of available water remains the same, or declines, as is currently the case with the state's worst drought in two decades. The legislation creates a new seven-member council to oversee and restore the fragile Delta, imposes a 20% conservation mandate for cities by 2020 and requires the monitoring of groundwater levels throughout the state. It also places a $11.1 billion bond on next November's ballot to pay for overhauling the water system. The bond measure is larded with water projects statewide in an attempt to encourage passage." 11-09

13. -04-08-11 Senate Majority Leader Reid: Abortion Disagreement Is Blocking Funding (CNN News)
    "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, indicated Friday morning that the abortion issue is the lone remaining stumbling block for negotiators trying to reach a budget agreement that would prevent a government shutdown." 04-11

14. 08-12-13 Administration Found Guilty of Violating Law on Nuclear Waste Dump (Time.com)
    "A federal appeals court says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been violating federal law by delaying a decision on a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada.” 08-13

15. -01-31-14 California Drought Is Becoming a Disaster (CBS News)
    "Many towns and cities already have ordered severe cutbacks in water use."
    
    "Meanwhile, the Colorado River, which feeds Nevada's Lake Mead, is drying up, meaning the lake is rapidly shrinking. The lake provides water for 20 million people in southern Nevada, southern California and Arizona - and it has lost 4 trillion gallons of water since 2000."
    
    "Lake Mead is expected to drop at least another 20 feet this year, and that would devastate Las Vegas. Ninety percent of the area's water comes from the lake." 01-14

16. -04-24-14 Republican Politicians Distance Themselves from Racist Remarks (CNN News)
    "Racist comments from Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy – who earlier this month appeared to win a highly publicized standoff against federal authorities over his two-decade long illegal grazing of cattle on public land – are giving Democrats a new weapon to attack some top Republicans who earlier came to Bundy's defense." 04-14