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EDITORIAL: Legalizing recreational pot is good policy

This week, petitioners began collecting signatures for an initiative to legalize recreational use of marijuana within the state. If you are presented with the petition, and you’re a registered voter, sign it.

EDITORIAL: Waste lots, want more

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created a few years ago to safeguard Americans from questionable business practices within the financial sector. Ironically, with the announcement of its new employee review policy, the bureau has proved it has no interest in protecting the taxpaying public from the agency’s own dubious practices.

EDITORIAL: Obamacare might trigger downtown hotel strike

Several downtown hotels could see up to 2,000 union workers go on strike if new contracts aren’t hammered out by 5 a.m. Sunday morning, a decidedly unhealthy move for the slowly recovering local economy. And make no mistake, health — in the form of the Affordable Care Act — has a lot to do with why the labor dispute exists in the first place.

EDITORIAL: IRS targeting makes case for simpler tax code

The White House and the IRS had long asserted that the tax agency’s targeting of tea party groups was the work of rogue, low-level employees from the Cincinnati office. Nothing to see here. Move along, America.

EDITORIAL: Home-grown success

UNLV’s baseball team on Monday did what the school’s basketball team couldn’t this season: It qualified for the NCAA tournament’s field of 64.

EDITORIAL: To fix VA, privatize hospitals, benefits

President Barack Obama says he is “madder than hell” about the widening Veterans Affairs scandal. In fact, if the administration is to be believed, nobody is madder about it than the president — not the American people, our fighting men and women, or even the families of at least 40 veterans who died while waiting for treatment at mismanaged VA hospitals.

EDITORIAL: Remembering those who made ultimate sacrifice

Every Memorial Day we see heartfelt tributes to our troops and veterans. They’re worthy of year-round thanks, especially with so many current service members coming home from multiple combat tours.

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