Print edition for August 19, 2006

Nursing shortage is linked to instructors' salaries: ELKO - The giant elephant threatening to squash university regents' plans to double the state's output of nurses by 2013 may not be the $62 million price tag.

Time to mend fences with the 'status quo': A blistering primary contest left Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani standing as the victorious Democratic candidate in Clark County Commission District E.

Editorial: Better access needed: The Government Accountability Office report released Wednesday says that from 2001 to 2004 the nation sustained a net loss of 538 facilities - or 6 percent of the overall number of clinics typically available.

Editorial: The final frontier: Evidently, there is an ongoing controversy over whether tiny Pluto is a real planet. To settle the matter, members of the International Astronomical Union have proposed a new definition for what constitutes a planet. The proposal declares a chunk of space debris to be a planet if it is large enough to have formed into a sphere and it orbits a star, rather than another planet.

District's new teachers learn tough lesson in school of hard knocks: By Emily Richmond; Rolling into the parking lot of Sunset Station in a giant U-Haul truck, a 13-hour drive and her old life behind her, new teacher Vicki Droscher thought she was ready.

THE FAN'S GUIDE TO SURVIVING ELY: Like the team, you'll beat the heat. The forecast: highs in the 80s, lows in the 40s.

FLASHPOINT for Aug 19, 2006: If it quacks like a lame duck ... Gov. Kenny Guinn uttered nary a peep during the race to succeed him, offering up only a tepid almost-endorsement for Lt. Gov. Lorraine Hunt despite his antipathy for Rep. Jim Gibbons and state Sen. Bob Beers. Can he be a factor in the general? Guinn has said he will support the GOP nominee, but the governor never forgave Gibbons for pouring gasoline on the tax increase fire more than three years ago. That's a long time to hold a grudge, but Guinn takes these things very personally. He also can't support state ...

Letter: Pipeline is not the only solution: Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, seems to believe that the only thing that could stop growth in the valley is a limit to the supply of water. And she believes that her $2 billion pipeline project is the only way to provide it.

Letter: Curbing growth will fix water problem: Growth is a Ponzi scheme where requirements created by past growth have to be financed with future growth. Other than for the developers and the politicians, you would be hard pressed to find many residents who feel that our quality of life has improved with the uncontrolled growth.

Letter: Experience is one thing Airola can't buy: Does he really think that in the November general election the people who voted for police officers Laurie Bisch and Bill Conger, who together garnered 31 percent of the votes for sheriff, are now going to support a wannabe cop and turn their backs on Undersheriff Doug Gillespie, a real cop with 25 years of service to the community?

Editorial: Wars yield tragic lessons: How could the U.S. have lost so much control over a country that it thought was defeated?

A tough day to be Right: By J. Patrick Coolican; Conservative candidates took it on the chin in Tuesday's Republican primary, and a few of Nevada's grass-roots activists are concerned about the health of what conservatives sometimes call "The Movement."