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Time is now for activist government

After all the fear and anger on Wall Street, in Washington and across the country over the past couple of weeks, here’s what you probably don’t want to hear: The $700 billion Wall Street bailout should be just the beginning.

Budgets bust because they boom

Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley hosted a town-hall forum Monday, ostensibly to discuss challenges facing Nevada and hear residents’ ideas about solving our problems.

Voter fraud in Las Vegas?

As we fly headfirst into election 2008, it is worth noting how big Nevada figures in the outcome.

The biggest armed robbery in history

Quite “a coincidence that you’re interested in this one,” the salesman says. “Another lady was just in here wanting it and she ran home for her checkbook. I can’t guarantee it’ll still be here in half an hour.”

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Letting Bill be Bill

Bill Clinton knows better than anyone how a Democrat gets elected president. Like the eager-beaver smartest kid in class, he loves to tell you.

The ‘science’ of Yucca Mountain

Millions of years ago, Nevada and the rest of the Great Basin were covered by a shallow inland sea. The fossilized remains of creatures that lived in and along that sea can still be dug from exposed sand and gravel faces throughout this desert.

Stemming the flow

At one point last year, illegal immigration was among the most important issues of the presidential campaign. The nation’s reeling economy has not only shot past illegal immigration among the electorate’s top concerns, it appears to be reducing the flow of foreign nationals across the nation’s southern border.

Credit to Reid

Two days after a Wall Street bailout bill crashed and burned in the House, the Senate easily approved a new version of the proposal Wednesday night, adding enough new “sweeteners” to lead proponents to predict it would sail through the lower chamber today.

VP debate unlikely to change minds

The two major-party candidates for vice president met Thursday evening for their only one-on-one debate at Washington University in St. Louis.

Look at the grouse

There used to be a lot more sage grouse in Nevada and our neighboring states to the north and east, 70 years ago. (But not necessarily 170 years ago, interestingly enough.)

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