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Print edition for August 13, 2007

Editorial: Suspects have privacy rights
Nowak, a former astronaut, was charged with attempted kidnapping in February. She is accused of driving from Texas to Florida to confront a woman who was romantically involved with another astronaut, with whom Nowak had had an affair.
Doctor shows why insurers exasperate him
By Marshall Allen
Dr. Mehdi Ansarinia treats thousands of people for migraines, but his own headaches come from insurance companies.
Editorial: Not your father's Army
U.S. Army officials say that they need to do more - despite spending almost $1 billion on recruiting advertising and incentives last year. A story by USA Today on Friday says Army officials have proposed a new menu of incentives, such as paying off recruits' student loans and paying them up to $45,000 when their enlistments are over so they can buy a house or start a business.
FLASHPOINT for Aug 13, 2007
Mitt Romney is scheduled to be in Elko today for an "Ask Mitt Anything" event. I hope he realizes that these ain't rubes from Iowa or New Hampshire. In fact, I have some advice for Gov. Romney. Perhaps he should lift some quotes from a famous Jim Gibbons speech in Elko that was, ironically, lifted from someone else, a state auditor in Alabama, as a matter of fact. Gov. Romney, just tell the Elkoans: "I say we tell those liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else." Two years after ...
Letter: Common ground on immigration needed
Employers face two problems: the need to better screen workers for legality, and the payment of true living wages to attract some of the 4 percent to 5 percent of our nation's workforce that's unemployed to work their jobs. Customers' costs might increase somewhat, but it is many of them who are most worked up about the issue. Thus, they should not complain.
Crowding squeezes classes out of a room
By Emily Richmond
In January 2006, principal Betty Roqueni was told her new school would open that August with 534 students.
Jeff Haney on an unfortunate trend in sports betting on the Strip
Nor am I a "runner," another term used to describe someone who makes bets with other people's money in a sports book following the instructions of his boss, the head money-mover.
He can win for losing
This isn't exactly how Mike McKiski envisioned his collegiate football career. A 6-28 record, just one road win.
LIVING LAS VEGAS
We knew raising a child in Las Vegas was going to be different.
Q+A: Raul Malo
Jerry Fink, Las Vegas Sun
Who: Raul Malo
Letter: Harry Reid is doing a great job as leader
Reid has constantly and consistently fought for the hopes and welfare of us, the commoners, with intelligence, candor and honor. He is imbued with the principles that have made him a rarity in the fight for humane and honorable government.
THE OPENING LINE
GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES, HE COULDN'T HAVE LOOKED BETTER
Editorial: Revive state prison board
This is a board that state law empowers with total control over Nevada's 10 prisons. Yet in recent years it has met infrequently, a surprise considering the financial burden that continued overcrowding has placed on the state budget. The board's last meeting was July 11, 2006.
OF LIMITED UTILITY
By Phoebe Sweet
We're guessing you don't know what a "consolidated annual deferred energy account adjustment" is. So, you and most of Southwest Gas Corp.'s 642,000 Nevada customers probably didn't read the notice that landed in your mail box the other day.
Letter: Let's not forget what VJ Day means to U.S.
For years the American continents had seemed isolated and protected from the conflicts going on in the rest of the world by our two vast oceans policed by our Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

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