Print edition for June 15, 2007

Jon Ralston wonders who will face Porter, and some other tidbits: By Jon Ralston; CD3 conundrum: News that state Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus will not challenge Rep. Jon Porter in the 3rd Congressional District, coming a few weeks after the revelation that Tessa Hafen would not make an encore run despite her close call, is ominous news for the Democrats.

Editorial: It's time for answers: More than a dozen current and former employees of the college talked to Littlefield. They alleged that Gilbert steered lucrative college contracts to subcontractors, who agreed to work for free or at discounted rates on the custom home he was building for himself on 4 acres off Kyle Canyon Road.

Gibbons has hours to decide on HOAs: As you drive to Bob Hall's home in Sun City Summerlin, you realize it is a special community. You notice little things like the sea-blue line that is hand-painted along the top of neighborhood walls. Sidewalks are less straight lines than curvy, Hobbitesque paths cooled in the shadows of lush foliage.

Editorial: Basic rights for detainees: Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," Powell said he would move the prisoners at Guantanamo to the federal legal system , where they could challenge the charges against them. The argument against doing so, Powell said, is that the detainees would have access to lawyers and to challenge their imprisonment.

Editorial: Lack of empowerment: According to reporting by the Las Vegas Sun on Wednesday, the Legislature failed to approve almost $1.7 million in funding for empowerment schools that Clark County School District officials had hoped to receive for this coming academic year. At one time in the legislative session the money had been set aside, but somehow - and it's not clear why - the funding was stripped from the final legislation.

Letter: Time for baseball to revise TV rules: It has been a long time coming that this ridiculous scenario - that six Major League Baseball teams can claim Las Vegas as part of their territory under baseball broadcasting rules - has made its way to the front page.

Vintage Vegas captured: Believe it or not, Las Vegas had residents before the 1970s who weren't living in hotels or flying in to sing in lounges.

Jeff Haney on why the Cubs, despite playing better than their record, still have little value at the betting window: Chicago entered play Thursday with a 29-35 record, 5 1/2 games behind the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Central, but according to the stats sorcerers at the Baseball Prospectus, the Cubs have won fewer games than expected based on their performance.

FLASHPOINT for Jun 15, 2007: Harry Reid has never seemed to care much about the media. But even Reid has to be wincing at some of the recent, withering attacks, including on successive days from two of the nation's most prominent columnists - George Will and David Broder. Will invoked a recent (and questionable) poll that showed Reid's approval rating at 19 percent. Then Broder, whose last broadside against Reid brought a letter of protest from his colleagues, weighed in: "Reid may think that Bush will suffer if immigration reform is killed. But the public is likely to put the blame where it principally belongs ...

Letter: U.S. wrong to support Sunni insurgents: George W. Bush has engaged in plenty of rhetoric about a peaceful and democratic Mideast, but the de facto gangstering of the whole region is this administration's greatest blunder .

Love him or loathe him: By Christina Littlefield; An outside consultant's evaluation of university system Chancellor Jim Rogers vividly illustrates the Board of Regents' conflicted relationship with its maverick chancellor.

Letter: Flight path is for benefit of everyone: I purchased my $400,000 home in Southern Highlands last October. Planes fly over my home every few minutes, all day and long into the evening. Yes, at times it is noisy and bothersome.

Wanted: 1,300 teachers within three months: By Emily Richmond; With less than three months until the start of the new academic year, the Clark County School District has more than 1,300 teacher vacancies to fill.

Reid once again whips up political world: WASHINGTON - Almost as dramatic as the political firestorm Thursday over the Senate majority leader calling Gen. Peter Pace "incompetent" was a mystery about whether Harry Reid actually uttered the word.

UNLV gets donations, without cut off the top: The UNLV Foundation is no longer taking 5 percent off the top of donations to the university to help cover its overhead and is looking for other ways to pay those bills.