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Mollette: America’s wars – we never really leave

President Obama said Tuesday the United States will spend $90 million over the next three years to clear unexploded bombs dropped on Laos during the Vietnam War. A decade ago we began spending $2.5 million a year to $15 million this year.

Letters to the editor

Are businesses, agriculture wasting our water?

Knapp: Marijuana Legalization: Give Peace a Chance

On November 8, voters in eight states will decide whether or not to legalize, to one degree or another, the possession, use and sale of marijuana.

Haynes: Genocide in Syria: Who lives, who dies, who cares?

A controversial milestone was reached on Aug. 29 when the U.S. government announced that 10,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled in our country so far this year, reaching the target set by the Obama administration for 2016.

Letter to the editor

Healthier school food options for our kids

Myers: NDOT at odds with safe roads

“Anything that takes a driver’s attention from the road is a potential hazard,” according to the website of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles.

Op-ed: What’s the matter with Nevada?

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has “Question 4” on their November ballot, which mirrors Nevada’s “Question 2”—the commercialization of legalized marijuana in the two states. Both initiatives were drafted and are promoted by the Marijuana Policy Project (Washington, D.C.) and are each locally sponsored by a “ Committee to Regulate and Tax Marijuana Like Alcohol”.

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