Print edition for March 6, 2007

Editorial: Incompetence redux: One soldier told members of a House subcommittee that less than a week after being admitted with a traumatic brain injury and the loss of an eye, he was given a map of the hospital's 113-acre campus and told to find his own way to outpatient quarters.

Dropout back out of school, hopes to join Army: By Emily Richmond; Dustin Edwards, profiled in the Sun on Saturday for his roller-coaster ride through high school, has decided to drop out - again - and join the Army.

LOOKING IN ON: THE SUBURBS: By Mike Trask; Sherman Rattner and his group, the Coalition to Save the Future of Boulder City, will not be headed to Washington to try to make all of the city's residents millionaires.

For third straight year, more county kids stay in school: By Emily Richmond; For the third consecutive academic year, the high school dropout rate has declined.

FLASHPOINT for Mar 06, 2007: The Assembly Republicans have a podcast, so the Assembly Democrats had to respond with ... a Web site. I'm not advertising the URL for them - use a search engine, people! - but suffice it to say that it won't be much more substantive than the GOP podcast. It's a feel-good site with news releases and photos. Democrat s say it's a good place to get information about legislative activity. But I have a better idea and this URL I will give out: www.leg.state.nv.us. Credit where it's due, though: The Democrats' home page features Republicans, too. Really. Some former speakers ...

John Katsilometes catches up with the newest county commissioner as he preps for a 'different lay of the land': "I'm up to my neck in boxes. Right now I am in the parking lot, hauling boxes," Weekly said during a phone interview Monday afternoon. He is to be sworn in today as Clark County's newest commissioner, replacing Yvonne Atkinson Gates, who has retired after serving 14 years in District D.

Letter: Troop support not same as war support: But I don't support a war that wasted time, money and lives by taking focus off the real threat: radical Islam. It's radical Islamists, not the Iraqi people, who have vowed to kill us and who have spread sleeper cells throughout 80 countries. So what are we doing in Iraq, and why does the president insist on staying, and why should I support such stupidity?

Letter: Gore/Obama would be a terrible bore: This would be a nightmare, not a dream. I may not wake up, having been bored to death by Al Gore in a nightmare!

January cold snap claimed squatter: By Timothy Pratt; A 67-year-old man died of pneumonia brought on by subfreezing temperatures in a low-rent Las Vegas hotel with no heat, according to a recently released coroner's report.

Letter: Founding Fathers believed in God: Deism is a belief in a supreme being "who does not intervene in the universe" and who does not "interact with humankind." A few words of the Founders themselves refute his claims:

Editorial: Helping the homeless: Assembly Bill 126 would provide $20 million over the next two years to help local governments fund programs for transitional housing as well as support services.

Letter: Republicans afraid of inconvenient truth: Watching all of the wild weather occurring in the last five years, I was amazed to read letters by Republicans criticizing Al Gore and his movie. I decided to do my own survey and found that every Republican that I talked to refused to see the movie and refused to - "horrors" - read the book. Are Republicans afraid of an inconvenient truth?

Letter: Who do you believe, director or witnesses?: There are conflicting sides to this story: a Hollywood filmmaker's tale 2,100 years later versus more than 500 eyewitnesses of the actual event. There are at least 10 sightings of Jesus Christ after His resurrection in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Plus, the passage in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 originated within three years of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Certainly if this was a lie, it would have been easy to disprove at the time, and the tale would have died a natural death.

Editorial: The coverage gap: A story by the Las Vegas Sun on Sunday reported on a plan offered by Assembly Democrats that seeks to provide health care coverage for 5,000 lower-income employees of small businesses, 1,000 working pregnant women and 6,200 children at a cost of about $15 million a year.