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Photo: Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid outline
Rory Reid’s county rescue plan serves to deflect political opponents’ jabs
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By Michael Mishak , Joe Schoenmann
Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid opened the year in politics Monday with a five-point plan to solve Clark County’s fiscal troubles and put government and public services on a path to long-term stability.
Photo: Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid speaks
Why troubled UMC is in County Commission chairman's sights
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By Marshall Allen
The call for Clark County to unload University Medical Center is framed by a string of scandals and mismanagement at the public hospital.
Photo: A shooting at the George Federal Building left a c
Even courthouse designed for safety can be compromised
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By Steve Kanigher
Monday morning’s courthouse shooting served as a reminder of just how elusive a goal it can be to design a perfectly secure building.
Vassiliadis, Rogich checking their crystal balls
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By Jon Ralston
From the job crisis to the downturn in tourism, Lady Luck skipped out on Nevada in 2009.
Inquiry backs horror story of pregnant woman neglected in UMC’s ER
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By Marshall Allen
State health inspectors have verified that University Medical Center emergency room employees neglected to provide care to a pregnant woman who was in labor, which may have contributed to the death of her premature baby.
Nevada Mining Association is reaching out
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By Jon Ralston
AP reported Monday that the Nevada Mining Association “says its top goals for 2010 are to educate the public about the industry and its history in the state.”

Opinion

U.S. needs more than a year to rebuild
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John Dombek, Santa Clara, Utah
For the past month or so I’ve received a pile of e-mail messages from different people that all have the same general theme, and that is: The president and Congress have done a rotten job. So this election year, let’s kick all of them out of office.
Outsourcing of jobs appears to have no end
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Irwin Klein, Las Vegas
Ford’s new Fiesta compact sedan and hatchback, which are being built in Mexico, will arrive in the United States shortly.
‘Demographic tsunami’
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Recent U.S. Census Bureau figures revealed that Nevada, which for years had touted itself as being one of the top states in terms of population growth, actually lost population in the most recent year.
Effusive praise of Napolitano was mind-boggling
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Adelle Gersten, Las Vegas
I read with disbelief David Broder’s column, published in Friday’s Las Vegas Sun, “Handling of crisis shows Napolitano’s grace, smarts.”
At least one official sure to resign after security debacle
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Carmine A. DiFazio, North Las Vegas
After this week’s meetings on the Christmas Day attempt to bomb Northwest Flight 253, rest assured at least one administration official will have his or her signed letter of resignation on President Barack Obama’s desk.
Closing embassy is a defeatist tactic in war on terrorism
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Bob Jack, North Las Vegas
The Obama administration’s decision to close the U.S. Embassy in Yemen is a disgusting sign of weakness.

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