Print edition for August 7, 2007

Letter: Nightmare in Iraq just keeps getting worse: According to the article, approximately 190,000 AK-47 rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces since 2004 are unaccounted for, and at least 30 percent of those weapons may now be in the hands of insurgents. In other words, weapons paid for by American taxpayers are now being used to kill American soldiers.

Public kept in the dark on potential conflicts in higher ed: Jeff German and Steve Kanigher; Nevada System of Higher Education rules designed to inform UNLV officials about potential conflicts of interest among university employees earning outside income also allow officials to withhold that information from the public.

Letter: War in Iraq robs U.S. infrastructure: Furthermore, millions of Americans remain medically uninsured, colleges have had to raise tuition and curtail programs. Surely the list goes on, and we continue to pay taxes, but fail to see a reasonable return on our tax dollar investment.

Editorial: A sickening situation: Formaldehyde is commonly used or present in building materials, such as the composite wood and plywood used in the construction of the trailers, and exposure generally is airborne. Prolonged exposure can cause ill effects in humans such as respiratory problems, nausea, nosebleeds and headaches. Scientists have been dispatched to Louisiana and Mississippi to determine what level of formaldehyde is acceptable by health standards because existing standards don't apply to travel trailers or recreational vehicles.

FLASHPOINT for Aug 07, 2007: The national media keep ignoring Nevada in the presiden- tial race, but the candidates keep coming. This week John Edwards, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will be here. And in a couple of weeks, a rare GOP visit as Mitt Romney comes here. The Democrats get it even though the national media and the Republicans (mostly) don't: Nevada will be the momentum-giver going into New Hampshire, no matter what happens in Iowa. And Edwards, Clinton and Obama are going to keep coming so they have a fail-safe if they don't do as well as expected in Iowa. We are the ...

Letter: Ensign was right to fight more funding: The bill in the Senate is an attempt to dramatically expand the program, complete with a massive tax increase on tobacco to fund it, which would be unsustainable without encouraging millions of new Americans to take up smoking.

'Not the way we wanted it to be': By Timothy Pratt; Women and children stuffed into the meeting room at Buena Vista Springs, folding sheets of paper titled "Dear Resident" into fans.

Editorial: Our enemy, our weapons: About 190,000 rifles and pistols issued by the U.S. military to Iraqis between 2004 and early this year are missing, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

Editorial: Money alone not enough: We joined them Sunday, in an editorial calling on Congress to appropriate billions for bridges, roads, water projects and other infrastructure known to be in need of repairs.

Art Roundup takes Vegas artists seriously: By Kristen Peterson; What: Art Roundup

Clinton will walk in nurse's shoes for a day: By J. Patrick Coolican; Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose greatest disappointment was her failure to reform the American health care system when she had the chance to in the 1990s, will work the health care issue on a slightly smaller scale this month - as a shift nurse at one of Southern Nevada's St. Rose Dominican Hospitals.

Letter: U.S. citizenry right to oppose wrongs: As much as it is his right as a Bush apologist to present his own perspective on the similarity between how the Vietnam War was conducted and how the Iraq war is being conducted, the following are some similarities of the two conflicts from the perspective of the majority of the population of the U.S.:

They would have been Kings: Slick, new arenas housing a professional basketball, hockey or soccer team have been hot topics among locals for months.