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Print edition for June 24, 2007

Letter: Training educators to use guns is no solution
This is yet another example of the ridiculous notion that the solution to gun violence is more guns. As a college instructor in nursing, I consider myself an educator and a healer, not a law enforcement officer. I would absolutely never participate in such a program and I am sure that most of my colleagues would agree with me.
Editorial: Bad medicine?
Doctors in Nevada face serious discipline at a rate that is signifi cantly less than their peers across the country, according to a report by watchdog group Public Citizen. But don't draw any conclusions from that just yet.
Editorial: YouTube debate
Mike Gehrke, director of research for the Democratic National Committee, told The New York Times last week that this is "one of the biggest innovations we've seen in politics."
Letter: Immigrants deserve thanks for hard work
As I prepare my lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers for my salad, I say thank you.
Countdown to closing time
Jeff German and Mark Hansel
With a Saturday deadline approaching and no buyer in place, federal prosecutors are taking steps that could give the government control over the troubled Crazy Horse Too topless club.
LOOKING IN ON: CLARK COUNTY
Tony Cook, Las Vegas Sun
Freshman Commissioners Susan Brager and Lawrence Weekly did not want to take the proposed salary boosts, saying they had not been on the board long enough to earn it.
Letter: Courage needed to curb illegal immigration
Our inadequate border control, coupled with shameful political patronizing and pandering for the Mexican vote with veiled promises of disguised and disgusting amnesty, continues to exacerbate the problem.
Letter: Nevada veterans are getting short shrift
Our returning troops from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering seven casualties for every fatality. This is more than double the rate in previous wars. The rate of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is now one out of six troops and traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one out of 10 troops injured.
Letter: Clinton, Libby cases are nothing alike
President Clinton lied during a civil hearing and to the American people about oral sex in the White House - a horrendous affront to his wife; nonetheless, behavior not unlike that of many past presidents or many of those pushing for impeachment (including then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich). Clinton violated the Sixth Commandment - immoral but not illegal.
Jack Sheehan on the values imparted by his mother, who always seemed to be right
My late mother had several pet sayings that she would utter so often they are still earning compound interest in my memory bank.
Is Clark County flush? Depends on the math
By Tony Cook
In March Clark County commissioners found $60 million to bail out the financially struggling University Medical Center.
Governor's office can be pushed only so far
By J. Patrick Coolican
By the time Gov. Jim Gibbons unveiled his transportation plan last month with a news conference that should have been a high point of his young tenure, his proposal was all but dead.
Jeff Simpson on why the Senate's strong statement should be heeded by the House and the White House
First, the national news was significant, and has the potential to change the way we live for the better.
Editorial: Bye, bye Johnny
A story by the Associated Press on Tuesday says the transportation, aging and disposal canisters - or TADS - are to be 15 1/2 to 17 1/2 feet long and weigh no more than 54 1/4 tons each. About 7,500 of the canisters would be needed to store the 77,000 tons of nuclear waste that the federal government wants to ship by rail to Nevada.
THE WEEK IN REVIEW: WASHINGTON D.C.
WASHINGTON - One noticeable difference between Washington and the West is the ties of the residents to their former homes.
REALITY HITS HOME
By Joe Schoenmann
Kathy Urbanski would spend time checking her husband's body every few hours for lesions, gashes, cuts of any kind that bleed without feeling. When you're paralyzed mid-waist down, a howitzer can blast off a knee and you'll never know.
Brian Greenspun shares Rabbi Hier's thoughts on intolerance
But we all know that isn't enough. Man's inhumanity to man continues to manifest itself in horrific ways and in ways that practically numb the ordinary senses and common sense of otherwise good people.

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