AltWeeklies Wire
Congressional Derbynew
No Democrat has ever won Nevada's northern congressional seat -- is this the year?
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
04-27-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
Direct Democracynew
Daniel Rosen, an Independent running for the House of Representatives, would put his Congressional votes in the hands of the people -- and their computers.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
04-06-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
Yucca Againnew
Congressional legislation is expected in the next two weeks to try to accelerate opening of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
04-06-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
America On Trialnew
Shoshone tribes hauled the U.S. before a United Nations panel and won.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
03-30-2006 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Public Noticenew
In planning what to do with the nation's stockpile of mercury, the feds kept Nevada in the dark every step of the way.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
03-23-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Cut the Micsnew
Stavros Anthony believes rap music can kill -- and he wants rap groups banned from Nevada's college campuses.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
03-23-2006 |
Music
Friendly Firenew
Harry Reid is taking heat for muscling Iraq War veteran Paul Hackett out of Ohio's senate race.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
02-23-2006 |
Politics
Asbestos Afirenew
The big fight on Capitol Hill last week wasn't the war, Iran's nukes or cartoons -- it was asbestos ligitation.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
02-16-2006 |
Politics
Banks 'R' Usnew
Nevada law permits some banks to operate without federal regulation -- and Greenspan wants it stopped.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
02-09-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Mercury Risingnew
U.S. Rep. James Gibbons, who grew up in Nevada during a time when rented scientists argued that atomic fallout is harmless, is coauthor of an article that now says much the same thing about mercury.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
01-19-2006 |
Science
Mining the Scandalnew
Nevada’s Harry Reid thinks the GOP scandal is a rich lode for Democrats -- if it is a GOP scandal.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
01-19-2006 |
Politics
Teddy Baernew
With the hit movie Cinderella Man being released on video, Max Baer Jr. is objecting to its portrayal of his father, boxer Max Baer, as a brute.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
12-20-2005 |
Movies
Stranger Than Fictionnew
Arthur Miller's obscure play about a famed, self-doubting, mistreated actress who's making a movie in Reno, Nev., was revived by the Goodman Theatre in Chicago last year but has yet to be performed in the town in which it is set.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
11-04-2005 |
Books
Homeland Security Welfare Stories Pile Upnew
Money to protect the homeland is being allocated not on the basis of need but of congressional pull.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
10-07-2005 |
Politics
Tags: Congress, Nevada, Senate, Calif., al-Qaeda, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, gold rush camp in the Sierra foothills, Nevada City, Nevada Sens. Harry Reid and John Ensign, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California amendment
Harry Reid Under Pressurenew
Nevada's senior senator is on the hot spot as a result of George W. Bush's latest Supreme Court pick.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
10-07-2005 |
Politics
