Volume 6, Number 10 •
October, 1998
Cover Story
'Only We Can
Prevent You
from Using
the Forest'
Smokey
Bear and his Forest Service colleagues have come a long way from their days of putting out
fires. Pat Hickey finds both smoke and mirrors when it comes to a land
deal the agency brokered and then broke. [the article]
Features
Waiting for the Sun
John Travolta isn't the only
'70s phenomenon making a comeback. D. Dowd Muska describes the tax-fed
solar industy and what a crew of Nevada pols is doing to push this costly and inefficient
energy source. [the article]
Turning a Ceiling into a Roadblock
Don't like to pay those
property taxes? Steven Miller reports that state of Nevada legal eagles
found a way to get you paying taxes you don't even owe. [the
article]
Siderbar story: The Widows of Incline
Departments
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Publisher's
Page
Ralph Heller has discovered what really produced
global warming, and offers a preview of this month's features and articles.
Bill of Rights
Third-generation Nevadan and former U.S. Agency for International
Development official J.D.Deming writes about life in Australia without
any Second Amendment.
Education
Lance Izumi writes that student achievement depends much
more on teacher competence than on small classes. Prepare to read well-researched common
sense.
Pen and Quill
Readers say Nevada Journal makes a difference, makes sense, and
makes the silliness of organizations like PETA clear.
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 Nevada High Court OKs
State Police
Bus Seizures
First, the good
news: The chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court has taken a look at what is going on
in Winnemucca and he doesn't like what he sees: Interstate buses are being commandeered in
Winnemucca by small posses of lawmen (calling themselves Narcotics Task Forces) ....
[more]
The Clouds
Are Gathering
Few things could
underscore the changing nature of Nevada's economic climate more dramatically than a pair
of charts recently released by the U.S. Department of Commerce .... [more]
Arts,
Books & Culture
The "not-in-my -backyard" mindset and the "locally unwanted land
uses" syndrome are dissected in Slaying the NIMBY Dragon, by UNLV's
Herbert Inhaber.
D. Dowd Muska reviews. [the review]
Upcoming...
Space:
Liberty's New Frontier
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