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The sick shouldn’t have to beg for life-saving drugs

By the time Josh Hardy was 7 years old he had beat cancer four times. After a bone marrow transplant, he became infected with a rare virus that no drug on the market could effectively treat. However, there was a new medicine being developed in North Carolina that was showing promise in a small clinical trial. Naturally, Josh’s mom, Aimee, wanted it for her son, but neither she nor Josh’s doctors could get it.

EDITORIAL: Only Las Vegas can handle Mayweather-Pacquiao

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who has a net worth of $4.2 billion, is fairly accustomed to getting whatever he wants. In November, he wanted the fight of the millennium: undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. against fellow boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao. Mr. Jones would have staged the megafight at his glitzy palace, the 100,000-seat AT&T Stadium, arguing that he could produce the largest gate in boxing history.

EDITORIAL: Domestic violence bill doesn’t serve justice

As the public and policymakers better understand the depth of the country’s domestic violence problem, the political pressure to create new prosecutorial tools and victim protections grows — even if they trample the rights of defendants.

Colleges don’t suffer from lack of public funds

The cost of college tuition has exploded. That isn’t news to many parents here in Southern Nevada and around the country who are preparing to send their kids to the halls of higher education. The most common explanation for this explosion — at least from liberal college administrators — is that public funding has seen a precipitous decline.

Legislature must step up to help fill teacher void

The Clark County School District is growing at a rapid rate and the national teacher pool is shrinking, making it increasingly difficult to recruit talented educators to meet the needs of the district. Additionally, many higher education institutions are unable to produce an adequate number of educators, and alternative sources of teachers are not built to scale to fill all teacher vacancies in the valley.

EDITORIAL: Legislature must refocus

A little more than a month remains in the 2015 Legislature, and lawmakers have lost their sense of balance.

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