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Stimulus spending

If there were any good news in Nevada’s estimated $8 billion highway funding shortfall, it’s that the Department of Transportation won’t have any problem spending the state’s $201 million share of federal stimulus funding.

You’ve got mail

District Judge Susan Johnson has ordered the Clark County School Board to turn over e-mails to a citizen watchdog who challenged its public records policy.

Unfinished business

In the wake of 9/11, some otherwise sensible observers declared that humor was dead. Americans, traumatized by the terrorist attacks, would laugh no more.

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Welfare budget

After decades of watching state welfare budgets increase by double-digit percentages, the economic slowdown finally hit.

Offensive speech

A few weeks after Proposition 8 was approved by California voters back in November — banning same-sex marriage there — professor John Matteson apparently assigned members of his public speaking class at Los Angeles City College to address the issue.

Home alone

Barack Obama has one word for those who didn’t get in over their heads during the recent housing boom and have paid their mortgages on time: Suckers!

Gone to pot

Richland County, S.C., Sheriff Leon Lott said Monday he’s not going to charge Olympic-champion swimmer Michael Phelps after a photo published in a British newspaper showed the 14-time gold medalist smoking from a marijuana pipe.

OUR BLOGGERS ARE SAYING…

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Congressional handiwork

In Congress’ rush to include all sorts of special-interest largess in President Obama’s economic “stimulus” boondoggle, lawmakers decided to leave out a critical amendment that would have met the bill’s stated goal of preserving jobs.

Open government?

Within a day of taking office, President Obama vowed that his administration would feature an unprecedented commitment to open government.

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