Print edition for April 20, 2007

John Katsilometes reports on how a former Clark County commissioner found her way to a new record label appealing to a Christian audience: The former Clark County commissioner, who lost by almost a 2-to-1 margin to Susan Brager in November , has launched a Christian record label called 2:18 Entertainment. The label borrows from James - not Brown, but the Bible passage James 2:18.

'Shakti and Joe' not your usual show: By Kristen Peterson; What: "Shakti and Joe"

Editorial: Gonzales should start packing: It was telling that Republican senators, members of his own party, grilled Gonzales and were left scratching their heads. Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a former Philadelphia district attorney, suggested that Gonzales was not candid when the attorney general said he didn't participate in discussing which U.S. attorneys would be terminated.

Editorial: Drug companies win, again: The legislation is one of the core programs in the Democrats' plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. After Wednesday's setback, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told The New York Times that the Democrats were just trying to give Medicare the same advantage for negotiating drug prices enjoyed by health maintenance organizations and companies such as Wal-Mart, which sells drugs to consumers.

Letter: Make parents pay for children's truancy: As a teacher, no matter how much I agree with his point, his answer to the problem is not a solution. Denying federal assistance as an adult would result only in them entering a life of crime.

Letter: Iraq war, World War II cannot be compared: After that infamous day, Dec. 7, 1941, war was declared on Japan and then Germany. At that time the American people knew what victory would look like. On May 8, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender. Later that year, on Aug. 15, Japan signed an unconditional surrender ending World War II. Less than four years after the beginning of that war, Japan and Germany had a democratic form of government and were on their way to economic recovery.

Audience treated to concert, Eloquent insights about craft: Wearing a black suit and those familiar thick-framed glasses, Elvis Costello walked on stage, picked up an old Gibson acoustic and again implored Alison to "take off your party dress."

LOOKING IN ON: CARSON CITY: CARSON CITY - Nevada voters in 2002 approved $35 million for building a state museum at Las Vegas Springs Preserve, and construction should finally begin next month.

Editorial: A tough call for NBC: With grief still raw for the families of Cho Seung-Hui's 32 victims, airing any part of the 23-year-old's ranting multimedia packet could be viewed as cruel - and NBC was immediately criticized for broadcasting it.

Letter: Reaction to killings defines your ideology: If your gut reaction was that this could have been prevented if only all the guns were taken away from all the law-abiding citizens, then you are a liberal.

CONVENTION CRASHING: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS: The product exposition at the National Association of Broadcasters convention is mostly about magic boxes.

FLASHPOINT for Apr 20, 2007: Chuck Muth, the smash-mouth activist who hates taxes and all-day kindergarten, is having a field day this session. But not in the way you might think. Muth has been unleashing verbal assaults on Republicans - notably Assembly Minority Leader Garn Mabey. Muth seems to think Republicans ought to adhere to a no-tax pledge many signed before the session. And he acts as if Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment is for wimps. Just this week, Muth eviscerated Mabey for taxing comments: "As I teach my children, as I hope you do yours, a promise made should be a promise kept." Muth once ...

Wrong kind of help: By Lisa Mascaro; WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales called Nevada's fired U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden at home shortly after his last day in office to offer support and assistance in finding the career prosecutor a new job. Bogden had just one request: He asked for his old job back.

Gibbons rosy, Democrats leery: Cy Ryan and J. Patrick Coolican; CARSON CITY - The past few days have foreshadowed what could be an acrimonious end of the legislative session, as Democrats and Republicans, and the Legislature and the governor, fight over meager sums.

Jon Ralston wonders why Southern Nevada legislators don't band together on road work: Twenty-nine out of the 42 Assembly members are from Clark County. Fourteen out of the 21 senators are from Southern Nevada. The South has two-thirds majorities in both houses. These are facts.

Teacher recruiting 'not pretty,' and it's expected to get uglier: By Emily Richmond; The chronically teacher-starved Clark County School District is breaking teachers into a nervous sweat.

May-December marriage: Old TV programs, the Internet: By Mike Trask; When Tony Soprano's sister whacked her boyfriend, the deranged Richie Aprile was watching boxing on television.

Letter: GOP is bought and paid for by the NRA: The Second Amendment is the most abused of the Bill of Rights because gun lovers, the NRA and the gun manufacturers and distributors have the GOP in their pocket.