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FLASHPOINT for Feb 02, 2007

Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 | 7:10 a.m.

Who is really running Nevada? You would like to think it's Gov. Jim Gibbons. Or perhaps you would not like to think that. In any event, first we had his chief of staff essentially handpicked by his wife . The governor doesn't even know the name or the ethnicity of his energy adviser - I wonder who picked her? Then we had the centerpiece of his education plan imposed by some private-sector meddlers and the governor doesn't know much about it. And now two members of his transition team - I thought the transition was over - presented the empowerment plan this week to the county's superintendents, who were shut out of any education discussion before the State of the State. So who is running the state?

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