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kennekra

This is probably the fairest way that Henderson could have handled this situation. The Henderson City Council should be commended.

I'll admit to being concerned with the Democratic fundraising numbers. However, we have an ace in the hole with the Senate Majority Leader and our status as a swing state. Plenty of money will be flowing into the Silver State in 2012, but the State Senate Democrats need to be smart enough to grab some of it.

Hopefully, just as the GOP is using names to scare money out of donors, the Democrats can start doing the same thing (um, hello, do we want Nevada to be another Wisconsin? I think not). I just hope State Senate Leadership has the guts to do it.

I'm not really sure how I feel about this. While I'm no fan of Steve Ross, he won his district fairly convincingly in 2009 with his constituents knowing he was found guilt of ethics violations. It appears to me that Scala is angry because Ross didn't take his bribe, and I have no faith that the organizer - Lisa Mayo-DeRiso - is anything more than a busy-body who obsesses about the Councilman and is really only in this for her own personal enrichment.

This money would be better spent if the organizers waited until 2013 and focused their efforts on a new challenger then. But that's just me.

A-Tech is an amazing school. Many of the magnet schools in Clark County offer superb educations within the Clark County School District. These are public schools, with specialized programs. These are not charter schools.

What a fine mess Mayor Buck has created. As the lone surviving council member who approved these contracts, she's all but ensured that she will be defeated, should she foolishly run for re-election in 2013. The budget deficit can no longer be closed with budget gimmicks and creative accounting. It's time for hard decisions to be made.