In California, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now uses his bully pulpit to advocate for a number of serious and dynamic reforms. In his State of the State address on Wednesday, the action-movie star-turned-politician advocated merit pay for teachers, reform of the state's out-of-control public employee pension system, an end to legislative gerrymandering and the creation of a mechanism to trigger automatic state budget cuts.
EDITORIAL: 'Uncompetitive' pay
What are the odds that one day a Nevada government agency will commission a salary survey that concludes each one of its employees is overpaid? The survey would be presented to elected officials. Then, with the full support of their selfless workers, said officials would dock everyone's pay 20 percent and join their constituents in a rousing chorus of koom-ba-yah.
The taxpaying public can only dream of such fiscal truthfulness.
LETTER: A right to benefits of marriage
To the editor: Thomas Sowell's Jan. 2 column on gay marriage was a well-constructed, logical dismantling and debunking of what he construes as the main foundations of the gay rights movement in America.
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: No certainty about Africans and HIV
There's been a predictable wave of outrage (perhaps real; one can never tell) at a recent column on this page by economist Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, in which he asked whether the legal institution of marriage is really a "right" that can be bestowed on gay couples, or whether it isn't in fact a set of commonly accepted restrictions on the rights of the partners, adopted to facilitate support of the children resulting from (hetero) sexual unions.
THOMAS MITCHELL: Should we close the gates?
Yes, Dawn, I am, in your words, "the sick, self-serving person who chose to run that photo" of the "macabre" -- the one of the Indian mother grieving over the lifeless bodies of her two daughters killed by the Bay of Bengal tsunami.
EDITORIAL: Look West, Gov. Guinn
Oh, that Gov. Kenny Guinn would take a few tips from the Terminator. In California, Republican Gov.
STEVE SEBELIUS: A story you'll never see
Here's a story you'll never read, set in the not-too-distant future. LAS VEGAS -- For the first time, a salary survey commissioned by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has concluded that executives at the marketing agency are actually overcompensated for the work they do.
EDITORIAL: 'Uncompetitive' pay
What are the odds that one day a Nevada government agency will commission a salary survey that concludes each one of its employees is overpaid? The survey would be presented to elected officials.
