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The people of Nevada, 135 years ago, voted to separate church and state by specifically adding to the Nevada Constitution the requirement that “no public funds of any kind or character whatever, State, County or Municipal, shall be used for sectarian purposes.” This became Article 11, Section 10 of the Nevada Constitution. But since we at the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada filed our lawsuit Duncan v. Nevada on Aug. 27, we have seen and heard all manner of criticism from those who believe obtaining a voucher card from the state will set them free from the shackles of public education, and thus are willing to throw the mandates and protections of the Nevada Constitution aside.
Washington seldom passes up a chance to bring the heavy hand of federal power crashing down on state and local authority. That’s precisely why Nevada leaders and those in other Western states have worked so hard for so long to preserve the greater sage grouse, a ground-dwelling bird that environmentalists want protected under the Endangered Species Act. If the bird is ever listed as threatened or endangered, it will severely limit land use throughout the region and greatly harm the ranching and energy industries.
Regarding Bill Golas’ letter on gas prices (“Highway robbery,” Sept. 16 Review-Journal), the national average of $2.49 per gallon is a weighted figure, somewhere between the lowest and the highest price. It is not intended to be the figure at which everybody must sell their gas. Included in the $3.15 that he just paid here is Clark County’s new, higher fuel tax. Other parts of Nevada have lower rates. Some states have still lower taxes.
UNLV played its annual game against a Football Championship Subdivision opponent at Sam Boyd Stadium on Saturday night. The official stat sheet said only 16,717 were on hand to watch the Rebels tally a school-record 80 points — Idaho State had 8 — and do chest bumps on the sideline.
In the season premiere of “The Simpsons” on Sunday, Homer Simpson will be diagnosed with a pretty unusual health condition: narcolepsy.
The Rebels set program records for most points scored in a half and in a game during Saturday night’s 80-8 win over Idaho State.
A Colorado man who plowed his car through a crowd of pedestrians along the Venice Beach oceanfront two years ago, killing an Italian woman on her honeymoon and injuring 17 others, was sentenced on Friday to a prison term of 42 years to life.
Jim Murren “loves” the location of the new Las Vegas Arena — behind New York-New York and next to Monte Carlo — but it wasn’t his first choice.