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School funding, choice and results

Just a year on the job, District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has shuttered 23 schools, fired more than 30 principals and given notice to hundreds of teachers and administrative workers.

Castle doctrine

Nevada would be much better off if most bill drafts requested by state lawmakers never saw the light of day.

The GOP and earmarks

The recent intransigence of congressional Democrats as they side with green extremists and refuse to advance spending bills that might be amended to end the moratorium on offshore oil drilling has made Republicans in the nation’s capital happy for two reasons.

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Economic consequences

When a souring economy tops the electorate’s list of concerns, as it does today, it’s generally a foregone conclusion that voters want things to get better, not worse. Certainly, no candidate or ballot initiative expects to win an election by promising to wipe out thousands of jobs.

Never mind

All that talk last week about energy at Sen. Harry Reid’s alternative fuels summit in Las Vegas sure got New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired up.

Islamic intimidation trumps liberty again

Journalist Sherry Jones, 46, had worked for a decade at the Montana Missoulian when she went back to school and, in 2006, earned her bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing from the University of Montana.

Some sage proposals

As worse economic news piles on top of the bad — declining passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport, declining visitor counts, declining gaming and sales tax collections — one group of Nevadans is doing a lot more than just squeal about state budget cuts leading to Armageddon.

Bombast over finesse

You had three agendas last week at the Saddleback Church forum.

Inflation running 5.6 percent … and other nonsense

I’m a coin collector, in a small way. British issues of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, mostly: Pistrucci, the Wyons — apogee of the engraver’s art.

State Democrats converge on Denver

Four years ago as Nevada Democrats prepared to attend their party’s national convention in Boston, they had been hammered with the message that they lived in a battleground state.

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