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Report Card: UNLV vs. Hawaii

The final numbers look great. Blake Decker threw for 258 yards and two touchdowns.

What do we get for all that student loan money?

College is expensive, and getting more so every year. Since most families don’t have tens of thousands of dollars lying around, the government has responded with ever-more-generous student loan programs.

GOP should beg for more CNBC-like debates

Where do Republicans get that special talent for turning gold to dross? They score an electoral “massacre” (The Economist) in 2014 and, a year later, what do they have to show for it other than another threat to shut down the government? Hillary Clinton is caught in email flagrante and Benghazi mendacity, and yet, with one Kevin McCarthy gaffe and a singularly ineffective 11-hour Benghazi hearing, Republicans render her sanitized.

Police unions’ lawsuit thumbs nose at taxpayers, constitution

Three Las Vegas police unions recently sued the Metropolitan Police Department to preserve the practice known as union release time, whereby union members are allowed to lobby and conduct union business on the taxpayers’ dime.

LETTERS: Purpose of ESAs is to assist any family with children

Steve Sebelius stated that Education Savings Accounts were sold to the Nevada Legislature, in part, “as a way to level the playing field between students from rich and poor backgrounds” (“The wealthy, not the poor, apply for ESAs,” Nov. 1 Review-Journal). As soon as I read that, I knew he was digging deep into the Democratic Party class warfare playbook to discredit the program.

PILT more like payment in lieu of payment

Nevada once again has been victimized by income inequality, held back by the 1 percent of the 1 percent.

Re-election battle brews in Pahrump

The announcement from Assemblyman James Oscarson, R-Pahrump, that he’s running for re-election reads like dozens of others emailed around this time of year.

EDITORIAL: The VA’s promotion-by-demotion mentality

When Ed Russell, the underperforming director of the VA’s embattled Reno regional benefits office, was placed on administrative leave over the summer, both Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., rightly pushed for his removal. Mr. Russell was indeed ousted from his job, but not in the way Rep. Titus and Sen. Heller wanted.

EDITORIAL: Improving tourism infrastructure key to Las Vegas’ economy

Locals might not see it, but gaming and tourism leaders sure do. A great big bull’s-eye stretches from one end of the resort corridor to the other, and convention destinations around the world are taking their best shots at it, month after month.

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