After his election to the presidency in 1980, Ronald Reagan, believing in the axiom that “people are policy,” immediately turned to the free-market conservative movement to help pull the country out of Jimmy Carter’s recession, high unemployment, 20 percent interest rates and general malaise.
A recent letter to the editor asserted that the Boulevard mall and other shopping areas frequented primarily by local residents would be included in a special tax district formed to help finance construction of a sports arena on land donated by Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. (now Caesars Entertainment Corp.). This is inaccurate.
The common wisdom seems to be that four-term incumbent U.S. Sen. Harry Reid snatched a fifth term from Republican challenger Sharron Angle last month thanks to a better “ground game” that turned out a higher percentage of Democratic voters than the comparatively amateur Angle operation in Clark County.
Jeff Foxworthy has made a lucrative career with a country comedy routine filling in the blank after the phrase “You might be a redneck, if ”
