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Editorials
Some of the country’s most pressing problems have a simple solution — build more.
Jealousy produces terrible public policy.
The recent whirlwind of international events — from Ukraine to Venezuela to Iran — has pushed the Gaza conflict off the front pages.
What was Judge Jessica Peterson thinking?
Dwight Jones resigned Tuesday as Clark County School Superintendent, a little more than half way through his four-year contract.
The request from the Nevada Supreme Court Wednesday asking the Legislative Counsel Bureau to answer a writ of mandamus filed by Steven Brooks may be an ominous sign for the Assembly. If the case actually comes before the court, the Legislature will have a difficult hill to climb.
The 25-year-old foundation Nevada Community Foundation, established with a contribution from local gaming pioneer Moe Dalitz a year before his 1989 death, supports more than 150 funds underwriting dozens of local causes, from scholarships and music education to bullying prevention and animal conservation.
A District Court judge’s dismissal last week of a complaint from the city of Henderson complaint against would-be arena developer Chris Milam is certainly not the last chapter of this sorry saga. But it does reinforce the notion that city officials radically failed in their duty to properly vet this increasingly fantastical deal in the first place.
The Nevada state Legislature has enacted regulations requiring your electric company to buy an ever-increasing portion of its power from less reliable, more expensive, politically favored sources, including solar farmers who know how to buy American political juice.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority last week approved putting from 90 to 256 extra cabs on the streets during the three-day Electric Daisy Carnival music extravaganza starting June 21 — but turned down requests for extra operating permits, called medallions, during three major events in March and April as several dozen drivers turned out for their most vocal protest in months.
If MGM Resorts International has its way, the Asian-themed mega-casino announced Monday by a Malaysian group for the old Stardust property may not be the only new attraction opening on the Strip in 2016.
Malaysian-based Genting group Monday announced it is acquiring the 87-acre Echelon site on the Strip — former site of the Stardust — and plans to build a $2 billion hotel-casino complex there.
At least three and possibly as many as 11 elementary schools in the southwest valley will move to year-round schedules this fall to alleviate overcrowding so severe that as many as 20 portable classrooms are now needed at some campuses.
Voters in Las Vegas Ward 6 can’t be blamed for choosing small businessman Steve Ross as their councilman back in 2005. Mr. Ross was running against a secretary for the police union who would have been out of her depth at City Hall.