Print edition for August 20, 2007

LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION: RENO -In a strange move Friday, UNLV President David Ashley and UNR President Milton Glick asked for less money.

WEEK IN REVIEW: CLARK COUNTY: This week, we look at some Clark County legal actions. What's that? You didn't sign up for law school when you decided to read this column?

Upgrade comes in a big box: By Mike Trask; Paul Griffin works six days a week behind the counter at Las Vegas Grocery, a little store without gas pumps at Water Street and Boulder Highway in Henderson.

Doesn't fit the mold: By Liz Benston; When Steve Wynn opened his signature resort, he had a tough act to follow. His own

Bail bonds joints aplenty, waiting for yuppies to belly up: On a scale of economic hierarchy in Las Vegas, casinos sit at the top, then maybe restaurants, then taverns, In-N-Out Burger and convenience stores.

Letter: Southwest Airlines has caring employees: The Southwest supervisor became involved. We had conversations with her a number of times as she called the aid car, arranged for flights to get my husband to Las Vegas to get our son and then to take them home the next day.

Letter: Recycling plan has some holes in it: The use of large garbage and recyclable containers will prove difficult for many seniors who typically require a small bag for their garbage. Recycling by seniors requiring the use of large containers in place of the current small bins will result in a net reduction in the amount of recycling.

Editorial: Fries with that?: Chances are, he'll think the vegetable tastes better - or so it seems, according to results of a small study by the Stanford Prevention Research Center, a division of Stanford University.

Letter: Politicians should deliver on promises: It seems to me that we should be concentrating less on whether politicians make broad, optimistic statements about what they will do once in office, and more on who will be writing and influencing their policies once they are in office.

Letter: Pay is the main factor driving teachers out: At the school where I teach, I am happy as a lark with the environment, my site administrators and especially my outstanding colleagues. Because of poor teacher salaries, however, and especially because of what that is doing to the teaching profession here in Clark County, I have considered private-sector job offers that often come my way.

FLASHPOINT for Aug 20, 2007: Lost in translation. Why does that seem like a metaphor for the Gibbons administration? Now we learn that a reported gubernatorial trial balloon about the Mexican government paying for illegal immigrant medical costs here was full of hot air. The suggestion has now been thoroughly debunked and was declared dead last week after the governor's trip to Mexico was over. This may not have been completely the governor's fault, but the history is unmistakable. A speech plagiarized from an Alabama state auditor. Boosting empowerment schools without knowing what empowerment was. Not knowing the difference between Turkey and India when it ...

Editorial: Minting history: Only three of 10 Americans correctly answered Thomas Jefferson, according to a recent Gallup Poll survey. Worse, only 7 percent could identify the first four presidents in the order they served - George Washington, John Adams, Jefferson and James Madison.

Editorial: Wrong approach to recycling: A story by the Las Vegas Sun on Friday says the plan being proposed by the Southern Nevada Recycling Advisory Committee has three options that would be tested in three different areas for one year. County commissioners then would decide which, if any, of the options to apply valleywide.