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		<title>Budget Solution Seen Through Yucca Mountain</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/06/26/budget-solution-seen-through-yucca-mountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State of Nevada faces almost a billion dollar budget shortfall. The Nuclear Energy Institute says there is a solution that requires no increase in taxes or cutting programs, but it comes with one very large string attached.
The NEI says the federal government could give the state $1 billion next year, effectively erasing the budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLOG: Tell Us Your Ideas to Solve Rising Gas Prices</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/06/19/blog-tell-us-your-ideas-to-solve-rising-gas-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gas prices just keep going up and up around the country and here in Las Vegas. We want to know what you think can be done to help Las Vegans deal with the problem of rising gas prices.
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		<title>Tim Russert of &#8216;Meet The Press&#8217; Dead at 58</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/06/13/tim-russert-of-meet-the-press-dead-at-58/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tim Russert, host of NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; and its Washington bureau chief collapsed and died at work Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 58. You can share your memories of him here.
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		<title>Governor Gibbons&#8217;s Divorce Proceedings Go Very Public</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/06/13/governor-gibbonss-divorce-proceedings-go-very-public/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/06/13/governor-gibbonss-divorce-proceedings-go-very-public/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gov. Jim Gibbons, who wants a divorce from first lady Dawn Gibbons, used his state-owned cell phone to send more than 860 text messages in one month last year to a woman he describes as a longtime friend. His wife has accused him of having a girlfriend. This very public couple is having a very [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Governor Gibbons Lashes Out Over Divorce</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/05/28/governor-gibbons-lashes-out-over-divorce/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/05/28/governor-gibbons-lashes-out-over-divorce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 04:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Jim Gibbons&#8217; divorce has become a full blown scandal. First Lady Dawn Gibbons has accused her husband of having an affair with a married woman. She wants the court to open up the proceedings, which the governor had sealed.
At a news conference Wednesday, the governor snapped at reporters who asked about the first lady&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Heller Proposes English-Only Ballots</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/05/07/heller-proposes-english-only-ballots/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/05/07/heller-proposes-english-only-ballots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 01:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nevada Congressman Dean Heller has introduced a bill that would require all voter ballots to be printed in English only.
A provision to the Voting Rights Act requires cities and counties to provide bilingual ballots if 5-percent of the voting citizens speak little English. But Heller&#8217;s bill seeks to repeal that rule.
Read the rest&#8230;
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		<title>State Agencies Brace for Huge Budget Shortfall</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/03/31/state-agencies-brace-for-huge-budget-shortfall/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/03/31/state-agencies-brace-for-huge-budget-shortfall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nevada has felt the pinch of a $500 million shortfall but projections now push the Silver State&#8217;s budget deficit to around $900 million. That puts state agencies on edge as they wait to hear where the axe will fall.
Systems like the correctional facilities are saying they can&#8217;t handle any more cuts without putting safety on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I-Team: Local Police Consider Purchasing UAV&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/02/14/i-team-local-police-consider-purchasing-uavs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/02/14/i-team-local-police-consider-purchasing-uavs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Metro confirms that it&#8217;s looking into the purchase of high tech drones that could be tracking your moves from the sky.
While it&#8217;s not a done deal yet, the I-Team has learned the unmanned crafts are already zipping around above our heads.
Read the rest of the story.
Add your comments.
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Project Lifeline &#8212; And Your Mortgage</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/02/12/project-lifeline-and-your-mortgage/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/02/12/project-lifeline-and-your-mortgage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Reid and President Bush are trying to help save people who are experiencing foreclosure issues. This new plan, Project Lifeline, may work for those of us in Nevada&#8230; or it might not. Do you think it will?
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meeting a President</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/01/30/meeting-a-president/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/blog/2008/01/30/meeting-a-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Las Vegas Now Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen or met a president of the United States? If so, what was it like? I grew up inside the beltway but it wasn&#8217;t until my brief move to New York that I saw one. I was walking down the street and saw a very elegant older woman and thought to myself, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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