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May 21, 2013

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Inequity in state’s spending on roads is a joke
Inequity in state’s spending on roads is a joke
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
WHERE I STAND:
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?
It’s about news, not espionage
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
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.
The dynamic effects of immigrants
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
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.
Real scandal of Benghazi
Monday, May 20, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Yes, Virginia, there is a Benghazi scandal.
When governments go bad
Monday, May 20, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Government, Clinton Rossiter once wrote, is something like fire: “Under control, it is the most useful of servants; out of control, it is a ravaging tyrant.”
Our Legislature needs to step up and get the job done
Sunday, May 19, 2013
WHERE I STAND:
I have been one of those Nevadans who believed that the Legislature should meet no more than every two years and for no more than a specific amount of time. The theory has been that when forced to do the work, legislators will get it done and leave the good people of Nevada alone the rest of the time. I was wrong.
Many benefits of energy efficiency
Sunday, May 19, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
NV Energy has demonstrated that it can help its customers cut energy waste. NV Energy spent $267 million on energy efficiency programs during 2007-12 — programs that have enabled households and businesses to lower their electricity use by 1.9 billion kilowatt-hours per year. This amount of savings is equivalent to the electricity use of 34,000 typical Nevada households.
Marriage equality a conservative ideal
Saturday, May 18, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
What do Vice President Dick Cheney, Gen. Colin Powell, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Clint Eastwood and more than 130 top officials from the Reagan and both Bush administrations have in common?
The loss of Americans' trust
Saturday, May 18, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. T
Low-wage workers rebel against modern Gatsby
Saturday, May 18, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
“Great Gatsby,” meet Raise Up Milwaukee. And New York. And Chicago. And St. Louis. And Detroit.
Military’s record on sexual assault has gone from bad to worse
Friday, May 17, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Another day, another military sexual assault scandal.
On the plus side for Obama ...
Friday, May 17, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Let’s try to come up with some positive thoughts about the recent political fortunes of the Obama White House.
Save the leopards, save Yemen
Friday, May 17, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Arriving in Yemen last week, I had an experience I’d never had before. I drove from the airport into Sanaa, the capital, on the main thoroughfare, through a raging torrent of water.
Scandalmania and the false god of 'narrative'
Thursday, May 16, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
“What if the government starts enforcing the espionage statute whenever there’s a leak?” Steve Roberts, a former New York Times journalist who teaches at George Washington University, observed to the Baltimore Sun. “It’s going to have a tremendously chilling effect on this interplay between sources and reporters.”
What was the IRS thinking?
Thursday, May 16, 2013
OTHER VOICES:
Well, this is a fine mess.

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