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Code words can’t obscure GOP’s racial politics

Four years ago, the remembrance of Sept. 11 was turned into a political issue to help George W. Bush dig in his heels on national security matters.

PERS reform

The biggest threat to Nevada’s public education, law enforcement and welfare systems is not the anemic economy, a purportedly unstable tax base or any ballot question that seeks to limit the government’s ability to increase tax collections. It is the state’s dangerously unstable and fundamentally unfair public employee pension plan that will one day collapse the foundations of Nevada governments if lawmakers don’t institute wholesale reforms.

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With a clean slate

It may seem obvious, but District Judge Jackie Glass on Monday gave an instruction to attorneys in the armed robbery and kidnapping trial of Hall of Fame running back O.J. Simpson — now getting underway in her downtown Las Vegas courtroom — that should be taken to heart by all Las Vegans, especially any who end up on this jury.

Unsustainable, unfair

The state’s political establishment should spend less time grumbling about the persistent rain soaking Nevada’s economy and more time preparing for the Category 5 hurricane that could wipe it out altogether.

They’re here to help

What is one of the most important things a private business can do? It can fail.

Tale of the tape

If elections were decided by a tale-of-the-tape comparison of the two political conventions, Democrats would win this year’s ballot, hands down.

Pension funds

It’s no secret that public sector pension obligations threaten to drown taxpayers in coming years.

Noonan vs. Palin

Peggy Noonan was wrong both when faking it and telling the truth.

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