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EDITORIAL: Federal Election Commission should stick to its narrow mission

The Federal Election Commission, founded by Congress in 1975, is an independent regulatory agency entrusted with a very narrow mission: to enforce campaign finance laws. No more than three of the six commissioners can be members of the same party, and at least four votes — a bipartisan majority — are required for any official commission action.

EDITORIAL: Commission should reconsider, let Roos-N-More reopen

Clark County has all kinds of fun attractions, things to do and family-friendly outdoor recreation. But it doesn’t have a major zoo. And next week, the Clark County Commission very well might put down the region’s closest thing to one.

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EDITORIAL: McCarran wisely allows Uber, Lyft services

Resistance to transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft has grounded their contract drivers at some major airports, where there’s no shortage of people in need of a ride.

EDITORIAL: Finally, a new kind of pharmacy

Tuesday was another typical August day in Southern Nevada. Today will bring more of the same. Tomorrow as well. And that’s big news considering Clark County’s first marijuana dispensary opened for business Monday

EDITORIAL: Bureaucracy, politics caused teacher shortage

The Clark County School District’s shortage of teachers is a massive policy failure compounded by protectionism. By retaining bureaucratic barriers to the licensing of educators, the system is forced to fill hundreds of classrooms with the very people those barriers are designed to keep out of schools.

EDITORIAL: UNLV’s health insurance rip-off

This year’s 4 percent increase in undergraduate registration fees is a heckuva deal for UNLV students when compared with the cost of school-sponsored health insurance.

EDITORIAL: End oil export ban

Back in the 1970s, when an Arab oil embargo sent U.S. gas prices soaring and created long lines at the pumps, our leaders in Washington set out to protect our energy interests by, among other things, instituting a domestic oil export ban — a ban that exists to this day. But now, 40 years later, with U.S. oil production at an all-time high, it’s time to lift the ban and sell the oil to foreign markets that want it.

EDITORIAL: Obama’s clean energy power play an unlawful overreach

Barack Obama will be in Las Vegas on Monday to deliver the keynote speech at Clean Energy Summit 8.0, where he’ll no doubt receive unyielding applause for the most economically harmful, unlawful overreach of his presidency.

EDITORIAL: Congress must make Internet service permanently tax-free

The Internet is the biggest platform for innovation and creativity the world has ever seen. It has revolutionized the way we communicate, research, entertain ourselves and do business. These changes have come about so quickly because, among other reasons, Internet service has been free of the taxation that boosts consumer costs for other forms of telecommunications.

EDITORIAL: Making the grade

Nevada’s education system has been getting lots of national attention thanks to its new Education Savings Accounts. But good news is coming from other fronts.

EDITORIAL: Keeping Las Vegas at front of tourism industry

Las Vegas can’t afford to rest on its reputation as an unmatched global vacation and convention destination. Keeping up with competing cities requires reinvestment. Two stories from this week highlight the constant change that characterizes the tourism industry.

EDITORIAL: ESA regulations

Today brings another important step in the formalization of Nevada’s Education Savings Accounts, the new school choice initiative that already is changing education across the state.