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Off the rails

The Las Vegas Monorail, Bruce Woodbury insists, has been a success — if by success you mean a “good transportation system.”

Who might that be?

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Rory Reid took aim this week at a sitting duck — and missed the mark.

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Saving UMC

Pick a health catastrophe, any health catastrophe, and it perfectly illustrates the myriad fiscal woes of Clark County government and its biggest budgetary ailment, University Medical Center.

Government TV

The city of Las Vegas runs its own, government-produced television station, KCLV-TV, Channel 2. Its funding is provided by franchise fees charged to cable TV customers.

Reid’s health reform dilemma

Health care reform has been a front-burner issue in Washington for several months now, and everybody on Capitol Hill seems to be sick of the debate. Nobody could be more feverish about it than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

‘Racial equity’

The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, working in tandem with an outfit called the Western States Center, has compiled a new report dubbed “Facing Race: 2009 Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity.”

Political lesson

If you doubt that freshman Rep. Dina Titus faces a tough re-election battle, consider her vote on the debt issue.

Meanwhile …

What would most Americans do without Congress to guide them? Could they even tie their own shoes?

Water, water everywhere

In the past, the U.S. Supreme Court has tended to “split the baby” in deciding how far the Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of Engineers can go in enforcing the Clean Water Act.

Lend more!

At a White House meeting Monday, President Obama — obviously concerned that he can’t go on forever blaming the nation’s dire economic straits on his predecessor, George W. Bush — twisted the arms of the nation’s top bankers, insisting that they start lending again, on the theory this will boost the economy.

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