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State Senate in the balance

The multimillion-dollar TV and direct-mail smear campaign waged against Nevada state Sens. Bob Beers and Joe Heck by the state Democratic Party, and now apparently by some local police and fire unions, has been a marvel of distortion.

It’s going to get worse before it gets better

It started with the grass. The couple living next door — nice people, considerate neighbors — had a run of bad luck. The man lost his job. The woman got cancer. They couldn’t keep up with their mortgage payments.

Obama, Titus, Derby the right candidates for this time

Because more than one-third of Clark County voters have already cast ballots, the final turnout for early voting — which ends Friday — could rise to more than half of the electorate.

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‘A goodbye boondoggle’

Regardless of who wins Tuesday’s election, there will be a new president in the White House come January — one who promises, “Change is coming.”

Regional cooperation

It seems that no political or economic force is strong enough to derail planners’ dreams of a mass-transit utopia.

Money grab

Traffic at McCarran International Airport dropped more than 13 percent in September when measured against the same month in 2007. It was the 11th consecutive month of such declines.

Poster boy for GOP arrogance and error

Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama both called on Alaska’s Ted Stevens to resign from the U.S. Senate Tuesday, a day after his conviction on charges of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts.

Crystal ball gazing

Gov. Jim Gibbons and state lawmakers can quit worrying about the state’s massive revenue shortfall and the souring national economy.

Porter has the edge

The race in the 3rd Congressional District, in which Democratic state Sen. and UNLV professor Dina Titus challenges three-term incumbent Republican Jon Porter, remains tight as it goes down to the wire. Last Thursday, the two candidates participated in their final televised debate.