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Editorials
Nevada has spent only three-quarters of its allocation.
United States can get what it needs without military force.
Today we celebrate a great man.
Some of the country’s most pressing problems have a simple solution — build more.
For weekend visitors driving back to Southern California from Las Vegas, and for Southern Nevadans making the jaunt southwest for a little rest and relaxation, a much-needed improvement to your route finally appears to be coming.
Problem: Too many kids come to school hungry, and kids can’t keep up with course work if their stomachs are growling. Government solution: Pour billions of taxpayer dollars into school meals.
Last month, the National Council on Teacher Quality released its first comprehensive review of U.S. colleges of education. The study, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, assigned ratings for more than 1,200 programs at 608 institutions, which account for 72 percent of education graduates across the nation.
Allow us to provide an abbreviated history of recent efforts to diversify and expand Nevada’s economy beyond tourism, conventions and construction:
National Employee Freedom Week wrapped up Saturday. What just a year ago was a modest local effort has extended nationwide, thanks to the Nevada Policy Research Institute.
The Great Recession provided many enduring lessons for local governments. Foremost among them: Long-term contracts that provide guaranteed annual pay raises to employees are a bad deal for taxpayers.
Newspaper journalists believe they’ve seen it all, so nothing really surprises them. But when NBA Commissioner David Stern stepped to the lectern Thursday night to unveil the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft — even pausing a couple of seconds to exacerbate the surprise — and announced the Cleveland Cavaliers had selected Anthony Bennett, jaws dropped around the entire Review-Journal newsroom (which is actually two rooms, for those keeping score).
No industry is immune from the ebb and flow of the economy, and as a result, no tax is, either.
You know it’s a slow day at City Hall when your elected officials spend time working up a healthy food policy. Dog-catching procedures, well within the council’s scope, apparently required no further attention. So it was that on June 19, as reported by the Review-Journal’s Benjamin Spillman, the council served up a resolution on what it wants you to eat.
If you get arrested, smile for your booking photo. In one of the latest marriages of technology and entrepreneurship, websites that peddle in mug shots and arrest records are popping up and prompting debate about public records.