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Modest welfare reform is immoral?

Nancy Ford, administrator of Nevada’s Division of Welfare and Supportive Services, split the baby Tuesday, adopting one policy change designed to meet federal requirements that aid recipients be required to look for work, but rejecting another.

Environmentalists and energy

The sunny predictions that came from this week’s National Clean Energy Summit at UNLV largely ignored the dark clouds hovering above the Cox Pavilion. (No, they didn’t come from a coal-fired power plant.)

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Rich man, poor man

John McCain and Barack Obama each appeared Saturday — separately — at Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., where they fielded questions from pastor Rick Warren.

Cold cases

In late 1942 and early 1943, government agents arrived on the doorsteps of numerous poor farmers in eastern Kentucky, informing them that the Army needed their land — 36,000 acres in all — to build the training facility now known as Camp Breckenridge.

Another drug raid gone bad

Cops in Prince George’s County, Md., have a proud tradition to maintain. In May, a former county officer was sentenced to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture delivery men at his home last year, one of them fatally. (He claims they attacked him.)

Opening the bridge

The Clark County Commission decided Tuesday to open the nearly completed, $12.4 million Lake Mead Boulevard interchange at the Las Vegas Beltway, rather than leave it closed for two years to appease a few vocal residents who’d rather see the bridge torn down.

Public employee pay

The city of Las Vegas is prepared to pay a consulting firm $360,000 to quantify what council members, administrators and taxpayers already know: public employee salaries and benefits are breaking government budgets.

And your conscience is no guide

California’s highest court on Monday said doctors have to perform elective procedures desired by gays and lesbians; they can’t get out of the obligation based on their religious beliefs.

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