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Tough choices on local campuses

Economic hardships have forced individuals, households and businesses of all types and sizes to make excruciating cost-cutting decisions. There’s no escaping the reality that with jobs vanishing, less money to go around and poor prospects for a 2009 turnaround, spending must be reduced.

Fuel standards

A good case can be made that federal fuel efficiency standards played a part in the collapse of the Big Three automakers, although some will surely disagree.

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Anarchy on the high seas

Somali pirates on Monday vowed to retaliate for the deaths of three colleagues, who were shot dead by U.S. Navy snipers as they held an American merchant captain hostage on a lifeboat off the coast of Somalia.

Terminal care

Attempting to restore both morale and fiscal sanity to a county hospital whose previous gang of Chicago operators face indictments for misappropriation of funds — a public hospital still hemorrhaging cash and thus requiring taxpayer subsidies at unacceptable levels — new University Medical Center CEO Kathy Silver and her management team had some tough cost-cutting decisions to make late last year.

OUR BLOGGERS ARE SAYING…

If you’re not checking out the local blogs on reviewjournal.com, here’s just a sample of what you’ve been missing:

What crisis?

The Nevada Legislature has cleared the first of several nonbinding deadlines, a Friday milestone intended to purge the Capitol of hundreds of bills that lacked support in their committees of origin.

Taking a toll

A proposal to allow a $1 billion privately funded toll lane project in Southern Nevada died Friday in a state legislative committee.

Warning to ‘psychotic’ Nevada tax pirates

Democrats and Republicans infected with tax-hike fever in Carson City should take a look at the election results which came out of Illinois last week.

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