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Our Legislature needs to step up and get the job done: Sunday, May 19, 2013; WHERE I STAND:; By Brian Greenspun; 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:; Fred Schmidt; 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:; Ken Mehlman; 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:; George Will; 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:; Dorian T. Warren; “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:; Robin Abcarian; Another day, another military sexual assault scandal.

On the plus side for Obama ...: Friday, May 17, 2013; OTHER VOICES:; Gail Collins; 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:; Thomas Friedman; 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:; E.J. Dionne; “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:; Leonard Pitts Jr.; Well, this is a fine mess.

It's almost like Nixon is back in the White House: Thursday, May 16, 2013; OTHER VOICES:; Derrick Z. Jackson; It is Nixon Week at the White House.

The next Benghazi scapegoat: Wednesday, May 15, 2013; OTHER VOICES:; David Brooks; Twenty years ago, when she was a young Foreign Service officer in Moscow, Victoria Nuland gave me a dazzling briefing on the diverse factions inside the Russian parliament.

Politicizing terrorism in America: Wednesday, May 15, 2013; OTHER VOICES:; Joan Vennochi; Ed Davis isn’t a political partisan. He’s Boston’s police commissioner.

Yemen succeeding where others failed: Wednesday, May 15, 2013; OTHER VOICES:; Thomas Friedman; If you want to know how bad things can go in Syria, study Iraq. If you want to know how much better things could have gone, study Yemen. Say what? Yemen?

When myths collide in the capital: Tuesday, May 14, 2013; OTHER VOICES:; Maureen Dowd; The capital is in the throes of deja vu and preview as it plunges back into Clinton Rules, defined by a presidential aide on the hit ABC show “Scandal” as damage control that goes like this: “It’s not true, it’s not true, it’s not true. It’s old news.”