Wake-Up Call: Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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Don’t forget your stimulus check

Gov. Jim Gibbons is encouraging Nevadans — especially seniors and disabled veterans — to check whether they are eligible for federal economic stimulus checks. (Nevada Appeal, Staff)

Link: http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080827/NEWS/808269971/-1/rss05

Nevada woman nervous about convention speech

DENVER -- Xiomara Rodriguez has no illusions -- the Reno resident knows why she'll be onstage tonight at the Democratic convention. (Review Journal, Molly Ball)

Link: http://www.lvrj.com/news/27521314.html

Mayor Cashell to Sparks’ leaders: we’re friends

Mayor Bob Cashell of Reno wants to get something off his chest. Reno, he says, is not trying to hurt its eastern neighbor. (Gazette Journal, David Jacobs)

Link: http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/NEWS18/80826048

Nevada delegates : Clinton speech unified party

DENVER — In a bittersweet recognition of the presidential campaign she narrowly lost, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Nevada delegates praised the rousing speech she delivered tonight, saying she succeeded in her appeal for unity. (Gazette Journal, Anjeanette Damon)

Link: http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/NEWS18/80826054

Rogers says lawmakers back his opposition to Gibbons budget cuts

In his latest onslaught to defend higher education against Gov. Jim Gibbon’s proposed budget cuts, Chancellor Jim Rogers included letters that show support from the state’s top legislative leaders. (Gazette Journal, Lenita Powers)

Link: http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/NEWS18/80826051

Democrats favor Washoe ballot question limiting growth to water resources

Washoe County Democrats love the idea of doing a better job of tying growth to sustainable water supplies as a proposed citizen’s initiative seeks to do, according to a new Reno Gazette-Journal/Channel 2 poll. (Gazette Journal, Susan Voyles)

Link: http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/NEWS18/80826046

Nevada delegates embrace Pickens despite Swift Boat ads

DENVER — Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, who made billions as a corporate raider in the 1980s, is hardly a figure many would expect Democrats to champion. (Gazette Journal, Anjeanette Damon)

Link: http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/NEWS19/80826039

Poll: 43% in Nevada say nuke dump won’t affect vote

LAS VEGAS — More than two in five Nevadans in a new poll say a presidential candidate’s stance on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump would have no effect on their vote in November. (Gazette Journal, AP)

Link:  http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/NEWS18/80826019

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