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Drug warriors still on the prowl

While on the campaign trail, Barack Obama expressed refreshing opposition to the Gestapo-like tactics the Bush Justice Department has used to undermine popular will on the issue of medical marijuana.

Schools blame game

The consensus is that Nevada isn’t a very good place to get a public education. Regardless of individual success stories, we are generally unhappy with what’s happening, or not happening, in the schools here.

Let the sun shine in?

In one of his first executive orders, on Jan. 21, President Barack Obama issued new staff guidelines for responding to Freedom of Information Act requests from journalists and others.

A cynical ploy

For all the disdain and derision they’ve hissed toward Gov. Jim Gibbons over the state budget, Nevada’s legislative Democrats have been woefully lacking when it comes to offering alternatives to his proposed spending plan.

Don’t mess with digital switch-over

Would it be a national crisis if a small percentage of American homes that still receive TV signals over the air — cable and satellite customers would not be affected — turned on their TVs come Feb. 17 and found they didn’t work?

Real world ramifications

In the third installment of a series reporting results of a poll of nearly 70 Southern Nevada business owners and managers, published in Tuesday’s Review-Journal, 43 percent of respondents said local schools and colleges are “not at all effective” in preparing students for the workplace.

Harry Reid’s dictatorship of bad ideas

Last September, Louisiana’s David Vitter strode to the podium of the U.S. Senate to offer an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2009.

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