- A boost for education
- Lawmakers should support efforts to tap Teach For America
- State lawmakers are fighting over a proposal by Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval to spend $2 million over the next two years on the nonprofit education group Teach For America to help it hire 100 teachers in Clark County.
- Time to look south
- Lawmakers, governor need to pave way for Nevada’s future
- As the Legislature rushes to close its business in the final two weeks of its session, lawmakers and Gov. Brian Sandoval need to remember one thing: Southern Nevada is the state’s economic engine, and what’s good for Las Vegas is good for the state as a whole. Clark County provides the bulk of the state’s tax revenue and the jobs, is home to nearly two-thirds of the citizens of Nevada, and should be the focus of the state’s attention. But you wouldn’t always recognize that by the debate in Carson City.
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- Lack of security in Benghazi was House’s call
- If congressional Republicans had any shame, they wouldn’t ask why there wasn’t more security at our facility in Benghazi.
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- Richard J. Mundy, Las Vegas
- People of Nevada wants a lottery
- Continuing on the topic started by Bruce Karley with his letter, “Implement lottery in lieu of taxes,” regarding the need to have a lottery in Nevada, the Nevada Constitution forbids lotteries except for charitable purposes.
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- Subhas Dhodapkar, Las Vegas
- Benghazi certainly is a real scandal
- In the letter “Benghazi scandal is manufactured,” James Witherspoon claims that he knows no real Americans who are interested in the “Benghazi mess.”
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- Linda Caterine, Henderson
- Lottery could help Nevada’s schools
- Once again the Powerball lottery reached a high amount, and once again, Nevadans flocked to Arizona and California.
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- Jim Galati, Las Vegas
- Property can be replaced; life can’t
- The story “Two arrested in iPad robbery that caused death of teenager,” which was about the 15-year-old whose iPad was a contributing factor in his untimely death, made me sad and angry.
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- David Tulanian, Los Angeles
- Focus on security, not talking points
- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the Republicans should stop being the party of stupid. So far, they have not heeded his advice.
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- Michael K. Casler, Las Vegas
- Parking, walkways are issue at arena
- The Thomas & Mack Center could use a remodel, but I read that they want to work on the congestion on the concourse.
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- Ken Freeman, Henderson
- Allow a la carte for cable customers
- The Television Consumer Freedom Act, recently proposed by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would allow cable customers to buy channels a la carte, is great.
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- Bill Miller, Las Vegas
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- Is democracy in trouble?
- E.J. Dionne
- We know American politics are dysfunctional. But it’s worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy.
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- The second-term scandal plague
- Doyle McManus
- What is it about presidents’ second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes; all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more errors it makes, and the harder they are to conceal.
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- Inequity in state’s spending on roads is a joke
- By Brian Greenspun
- Connecting the dots in Carson City is a fool’s errand. Enter the fool. Sen. Debbie Smith has bottled up Senate Bill 322 in her committee despite a previous unanimous vote to move it to the floor for passage. But why?
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- It’s about news, not espionage
- Eugene Robinson
- The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their emails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news.
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- The dynamic effects of immigrants
- Renee Loth
- I am reading a page one story in The New York Times about a dying suburban town that has been transformed by the energy and optimism of Hispanic immigrants.
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