Opinion

I see where the newspaper published without notable dissent (lead story, Page 2B, Jan. 16) another one of these cooked-up “report cards” on how Nevada is doing, this one from a Henderson-based outfit calling itself the Children’s Advocacy Alliance.

President Barack Obama hit the ground running on his first full day in office, issuing two memoranda ordering government openness and an executive order removing some obstacles to accessing the records of former presidents.

Wednesday

Barack Obama faced an implausibly contradictory challenge in his inaugural address Tuesday. He needed to celebrate the historic magnificence of an African-American’s becoming president of a nation once of African slaves. But then he had to tell everyone sternly that, uplifting as that was, this same great country faced deep, ominous and largely self-inflicted trouble economically, not to mention diminishment in world reputation.

Americans made history last week when Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of these United States.

To the editor:

In some rare good news from the frequently activist judiciary, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to indulge the government’s wishes to restrict free speech — and in so doing, held that heavy-handed regulation is no substitute for good parenting.

The U.S. Supreme Court voted last week to hear the case of Safford v. Redding.

In the end, the case — and, in all likelihood, the Nevada political career — of former beauty queen, former Las Vegas City Councilwoman and former Clark County Commissioner Lynette Boggs (formerly Lynette Boggs McDonald) wrapped up with the proverbial whimper.

To the editor: