EDITORIAL: Ready to punt on highway funding The 2007 Legislature has barely cleared kickoff, and already lawmakers are lining up to punt the most important issue before them.
EDITORIAL: Secret justice Public confidence in our political institutions depends in large part on the transparency of their operations. A government that conducts its business behind closed doors -- shielded from the scrutiny of its citizens -- is fast sliding toward tyranny.
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EDITORIAL: Ready to punt on highway funding The 2007 Legislature has barely cleared kickoff, and already lawmakers are lining up to punt the most important issue before them.
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: 'Few show effects by the third grade' Sure enough, just as I predicted last week, a preliminary assessment of Clark County second-grade students released by the county school district a few days back, supposedly designed to weigh the impacts of all-day vs. half-day kindergarten, weighed only academic progress.
GEOFF SCHUMACHER: Universal health care goes mainstream It's finally becoming clear to a large majority of Americans that we need a better health care system -- one that covers everybody at a significantly lower cost than we're paying today.
THOMAS MITCHELL: Insisting on liberty before peril strikes "If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify."
EDITORIAL: Secret justice Public confidence in our political institutions depends in large part on the transparency of their operations. A government that conducts its business behind closed doors -- shielded from the scrutiny of its citizens -- is fast sliding toward tyranny.
