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A ‘temporary’ tax hike?

Nevadans nervous about the budget-balancing intentions of the 2009 Legislature should pay close attention to their western neighbor.

Too fat to die

The death penalty is not funny.

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Secretary of State Ross Miller says he can’t certify for the ballot an initiative to restrict property taxes until it survives a legal challenge by the state teacher union.

Obama’s energy policy

It’s not so important how individual presidential candidates stand on a single, isolated issue — how many people remember what stances Kennedy and Nixon took on the islands of Quemoy and Matsu? Instead, what’s important is the sense voters get for what kind of firm, underlying principles guide a candidate’s decision-making.

‘A riddle, wrapped in a mystery’

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner and author of the great Russian condemnation of communism and its chief villain, Josef Stalin, died Sunday in Russia at the age of 89.

A trophy just for showing up

Oh, for the days of expectations in public education. There was a time when attendance was an afterthought — teachers and parents demanded that students be in class every day, barring illness, and that they pay attention in class, study at home and be able to read, write and perform basic calculations with ease.

Oversight and the medical board

Tony Clark has drawn criticism for not immediately suspending the licenses of doctors whose failure to follow standard aseptic procedures contributed to the hepatitis C outbreak centered at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.

Room taxed

Wouldn’t it be great if you and your co-workers could force the government to seize money from your neighbors and turn it over to you in the form of higher salaries?

In art and politics, ‘elitism’ gets unfair rap

Mark Swed, classical music critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a great column recently in which he challenged the negative connotation associated with the word “elitist,” especially as it relates to the arts.

Child safety seat training

Who says Las Vegas is last on every quality-of-life list? While the wet nurses on the Los Angeles City Council were plotting to block the construction of new fast-food restaurants, Reason magazine rated Sin City the best metropolitan area in the country in personal freedom. (Chicago brought up the rear as the nation’s foremost combination of Nanny State intervention and Big Brother regulation.)

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