Print edition for June 12, 2007

Editorial: Fed decision needs healing: After working for an agency as a home health aide for 20 years, Evelyn Coke retired after being hit by a car. Her personal-injury attorney learned that she had never received overtime pay, despite having worked well in excess of 40 hours a week.

LOOKING IN ON: TOURISM: That bathtub ring around Lake Mead is extending deeper down the canyon walls.

Letter: America still paying for President Bush's lies: I suppose that Mr. Gliddon doesn't think President Bush lied to the American people when he said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction? And he doesn't think he is a warmonger even though he was planning to attack Iraq as soon as he took office without knowing whether there were WMDs or not. And he snubs his nose at the U.S. Constitution with his eavesdropping on American citizens.

Letter: Cheney disregards democratic principles: He was able to bulldoze Colin Powell, a four-star general who later served as secretary of state, into retirement. He continues to frustrate Powell's replacement, Condoleezza Rice, with his warmongering ways, and evidence continues to trickle out about how he intimidated the CIA with his Iraq-9/11 fantasies and mushroom-cloud scenarios.

BRYN ARMSTRONG: 1916-2007: As executive editor of the Las Vegas Sun for 14 years, Bryn Armstrong kept a keen eye on politics, championed civil rights and children's issues, and led the newspaper in its recovery from a devastating November 1963 pressroom fire.

Main Event is for the kids: Rob Miech, Las Vegas Sun; Waliyy Dixon would like to knock on the front door of every home of every streetball fan who has ever seen him to give his thanks.

Letter: GOP busy making war instead of peace: With our spy satellites, nobody could build a missile launch site without our knowledge, and our missiles could take it out within minutes.

Editorial: School unaccountability: Chalk this up as another failure of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Ensign refuses to vote no confidence on Gonzales: WASHINGTON - Sen. John Ensign was fuming just months ago about the Justice Department's shifting story on the firing of Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden, which was part of an unusual purge of U.S. attorneys nationwide.

Editorial: Limiting voters' choices: As the Las Vegas Sun reported on Sunday, seven senators and 11 assemblymen will be forced to give up their seats in late 2010, and 18 likely inexperienced lawmakers will take their places.

Letter: Archbishop doing right by faithful: He is not addressing non-Catholics; he is correcting members of the church who, through their actions, were violating church teachings. If the Catholic Church doctrinally condemns abortion, how can it be improper for the archbishop to insist that Catholic entities uphold and respect that doctrine?

FLASHPOINT for Jun 12, 2007: I don't know whether this is a sadder commentary on parti- san operatives or the media. The Democrats' Howard Dean was in Reno on Monday. And before he got there, I received an e-mail from the Republican National Committee from someone "hoping to send you a quote from me for balance in your story " What? Something like: "Mr. Dean and his Surrender First mentality are typical of what we have been hearing from the Democratic presidential candidates." See, I could do that job. And, yes, so could a monkey. And it would probably get printed somewhere. This is what ...