Pam Russell is a local peace activist. After serving the Reno community as the executive director of the Women and Children's Center of the Sierra for ten years, she retired and is now a member of the feminist peace organization CODEPINK's Reno Chapter.
Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
The United States has burned through a third of its stand-off missile stocks against a country that spends two percent of what it does, losing at least four F-15s, an F-35 and 24 Reaper drones in the process.