Opinion

It’s far too soon to predict what might happen here in four months, when the state’s voters will help choose the next president. But the continued gains by Democrats in voter registrations bode exceptionally well for Barack Obama in Nevada.

For decades now, the green extreme has argued the industries that develop the nation’s natural resources for commercial use ought to be forced off the West’s “public” lands.

A proposal for Nevada’s first highway toll lanes is picking up speed in the buildup to the 2009 Legislature. A transportation subcommittee stopped short of recommending the privately funded project last week, but lawmakers sick of dealing with budget cuts are warming to the idea of having someone else pay for needed infrastructure improvements.

To the editor:

The plan was bold: An infiltrator persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Colombia’s wilderness. A month later, commandos disguised as international humanitarian aid workers land in a Russian-built helicopter and trick the rebels into handing them over.

It’s deja vu all over again in Washington.

To the editor:

Where do you go to buy books?

Wesley Clark did nothing wrong except respond in kind to a newsman’s question and do so honestly and frankly.

First of all, I want a pat on the back. I sat down last week with a copy of the U.S. Supreme Court’s gun control ruling and read the entire thing: 157 printed pages, including the majority opinion, two dissents and all the footnotes.