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A fine new place to meddle

Election to the board of one of Nevada's private homeowners associations seems to bring out the worst in some folks. On occasion, these petty potentates have promised to rain down the fury of the heavens on anyone who displays an American flag or redecorates with an unapproved color.
      Sensing widespread dissatisfaction with the excesses of these tyrants, state Sen. Mike Schneider, D-Las Vegas, has proposed a bill that would require Nevada homeowners' associations to "run more like government operations."
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Thwarting the people's will

It is emerging as a California tradition: The voters of the state enact a perfectly sound law, and the courts find a way to declare it unconstitutional.
      It was thus with a voter-approved ballot measure banning racial quotas in state hiring and university admissions; it was thus with a law, again enacted by majority vote, barring certain types of welfare to illegal aliens; and now, a California judge has struck down as unconstitutional a voter-approved initiative that limits the number of terms state legislators can serve.
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