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Most days are Memorial Days for honor guards

Southern Nevada’s military honor guards can be seen at a variety of events around town. But their most somber — and, members say, most fulfilling — duty lies in offering final goodbyes to veterans.

Washington Digest: House passes short-term fix for highway fund

The U.S. House voted last week for a two-month extension in federal highway funding, averting an interruption of state projects while buying more time to come up with a better solution to federal road woes.

Out of time, out of tax options

Carson City faces quite a conundrum: state budgets are closed, and so is the window for considering anything other than gross receipts and business taxes to fund them.

The absence of decorum

It’s easy — oh, so very easy — to poke fun at Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas.

Let’s ask the right hypotheticals

Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti-Islamic State coalition so grandly proclaimed by the Obama administration is nowhere to be seen.

EDITORIAL: Assembly bill addresses schools’ ‘zero tolerance’ overreach

The state shouldn’t need laws that mandate common sense. But the ridiculous overreach of “zero tolerance” school rules that fail to distinguish between toy weapons and real ones, between make believe and real threats, between first graders and teenagers, has forced the Nevada Legislature to bypass school boards in pursuit of a badly needed statewide disciplinary policy.

EDITORIAL: Petition restrictions

State lawmakers are not fans of the initiative petition process. That’s why they always try to make it harder for citizens to put referendums and constitutional amendments before their fellow voters.

Weidman, Cormier reign supreme at UFC 187

Chris Weidman retained the middleweight belt with a first-round stoppage of Vitor Belfort at UFC 187 on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden, and Daniel Cormier won the light heavyweight title that was stripped from Jon Jones last month with a third-round submission over Anthony Johnson.

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