Opinion

Would it be a national crisis if a small percentage of American homes that still receive TV signals over the air — cable and satellite customers would not be affected — turned on their TVs come Feb. 17 and found they didn’t work?

To the editor:

Famously, the new president argued in his inaugural address last week, “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.”

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As the line has stretched around the block, full of eager supplicants seeking a piece of the big federal “economic stimulus” package being pushed by President Obama and the Democratic Congress, a new risk has surfaced.

To the editor:

While still holding “president-elect” status, Barack Obama embraced handing Detroit automakers billions of dollars, calling the corporate bailout “necessary.”

A Senate Republican has placed an anonymous hold on President Barack Obama’s labor secretary nominee, blocking any immediate vote on the appointment of California Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis.

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The politically potent Culinary Local 226 says it already has enough signatures to require a popular vote on the City Council’s current scheme to move Las Vegas City Hall to an abandoned casino site six blocks to the southwest — between the Clark County Government Center and the Regional Justice Center.