Print edition for November 2, 2007

Letter: J-1 program working in this doctor's clinic: First , Dr. R.D. Prahbu has been my physician for many years and has provided quality and caring medical care to me, and I believe countless others would echo that sentiment.

Right and wrong: Charlotte Hsu, Las Vegas Sun; One of the 21st century's great quandaries is that so much of what we rely on we don't actually trust. Neither the water we drink nor the food we eat. Neither our computers nor our Internet providers. Neither our insurance companies nor our medical practitioners. Neither our TVs nor our newspapers.

For Love of the Game: Sam Morris, Las Vegas Sun; "We're going to state! We can be bus buddies!" Ashley Wimmer , at right in photo, cries to Tiffany Hutton, falling to the ground after finishing the Class 4A Sunset Region Cross Country Championship.

His company once cited, developer is now on board: Jeff German and Steve Kanigher; Reno developer Michael Efstratis has firsthand experience dealing with the kind of construction industry disciplinary proceedings he will oversee as the newest member of the Nevada Contractors Board.

Editorial: It's just a 'situation': Gibbons' plan to help homeowners at risk of losing their home falls far short of what other states are doing. Considering its number of foreclosures, Nevada should be a model for other states dealing with the crisis.

No end in sight for School Police audit: By Emily Richmond; While the Clark County School District's human resources office prepares to screen applicants for police chief, internal auditors are struggling to make sense of the paper trail left - or not left - by the last man to hold the job.

Jon Ralston speaks with a Democratic centrist beleaguered by bloggers but unbowed: The man who founded the centrist Democratic Leadership Council after Ronald Reagan's reelection devastated the party never has many listeners during primary season, when the candidates tune him out and listen to the voices on the left. And although the DLC may have been the force that helped catapult Bill Clinton to the presidency seven years after its inception, the political world has changed . As From tries to help Hillary Clinton, the voices of the Democratic left are amplified by a blogosphere teeming with loud, occasionally quite persuasive and intimidating voices. These are voices, From knows, that regard the ...

Editorial: By any other name ...: Mukasey helped his chances when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee he would resign before engaging in partisan politics.

Comedian David Swan fights cancer with laughter: By Jerry Fink; What: Benefit for comedian David Swan

Letter: Tax debate shows officials beholden to gaming: They both are arrogant in their replies to the tax hike proposal. Imagine , an MGM Mirage executive recently saying the casino industry would go someplace else if this proposal goes through! We all know that the politicians in Nevada ( the majority) are beholden to casino money to run their campaigns. Gee, wonder why they are against raising taxes on that industry .

So imagine you are Hillary Clinton and you get your pal Bar- bara Boxer to call this Yucca Mountain hearing Wednesday and then you see this in The Hill's online version later that day ...: By Jon Ralston; So imagine you are Hillary Clinton and you get your pal Bar- bara Boxer to call this Yucca Mountain hearing Wednesday and then you see this in The Hill's online version later that day: "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) skipped an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Wednesday that she called for earlier this year ... " She was nowhere to be seen at Wednesday's hearing." Nowhere to be seen, that is, if you don't count being on the dais and asking questions and participating and ensuring she got enough sound bites to be transmitted back to Nevada, where she ...

Letter: A lot of things can lead to foreclosure: Everyone doesn't buy a dream house with an attitude of: So what, we will live there for a while and then stop paying.

'New Democrat' says center still holds: Michael J. Mishak; In August the major Democratic presidential candidates attended the YearlyKos convention, a gathering of influential bloggers and liberal activists.

Groups say save water, don't draw more: By Phoebe Sweet; The latest attempt to persuade the Southern Nevada Water Authority to abandon its multibillion-dollar plan to pump ground water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas came in a report released Thursday. Once again, water conservation by Las Vegans is being touted as a viable alternative.