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Land barons

Mesquite cattle rancher Cliven Bundy says Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie told him this week that word had come down from Washington, D.C.: The plans of the Bureau of Land Management to seize Mr. Bundy’s 500 head of cattle grazing south of Mesquite have been suspended, for now.

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A ‘stupid bird’?

Environmentalists have identified the ground-dwelling sage grouse as a promising pawn in their drive to force productive users off land through much of the West. A listing of the bird as endangered or threatened could cripple mining, ranching and energy development over vast tracts where the creature is now or once was found — even areas where it can’t be proved indigenous.

A legal chasm on reservations

Imagine standing on a glass walkway jutting 70 feet out from the rim of the Grand Canyon with the Colorado River 4,000 feet below. Although the “pucker factor” is high, 1.8 million visitors have paid $25 to take in this view since it opened in 2007.

Judicial holdup

Elissa Cadish has an excellent reputation as a Clark County District Court judge. The University of Virginia law school graduate scores consistently high in a biennial survey of Southern Nevada lawyers to gauge judicial performance.

This case was inevitable, but outcome is uncertain

The challenge to Nevada’s anti-gay marriage constitutional provision was inevitable — if not from the law’s inception, then at least from February, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a similar ban in California.

Other people’s money

The most maddening thing about the ongoing Government Services Administration scandal isn’t the amount of taxpayer money spent or the fact that the federal agency decided to hold its October 2010 junket at the M Resort in Henderson.

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