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EDITORIAL: Biden’s sea of red ink

The CBO said that it expects this year’s federal deficit to hit $2 trillion, almost $400 billion higher than the original estimate it released — and Biden boasted about — earlier.

Still tough going in the legal profession

Tough times will continue for another couple years before business in the legal profession returns to normal, a Georgetown expert told the State Bar of Nevada’s annual meeting Thursday.

Farewell, Carol Harter

On Feb. 2, 2006, then-UNLV President Carol Harter stood in the multipurpose room of the Foundations Building on campus and announced her premature retirement.

Religious right doesn’t like Sin City? Their loss!

Republicans were outraged in 2009, after President Barack Obama said companies that took bailout money “can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime.”

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New year at UMC

There wasn’t much surprise last week to University Medical Center CEO Brian Brannman’s decision to resign his post.

Please, don’t take our Maryland Parkway lanes!

I’m not a traffic engineer, or a city planner, or a social scientist. I’m but a simple driver on the roads of Las Vegas.

Admissions tax has a long, long reach

Ah, spring (in an odd-numbered year in Nevada), when a young lawmaker’s thoughts turn lightly to taxes.

Honesty best policy when it comes to state slogan

When it comes to marketing, I’m far from an expert. But I am a repository of thousands of commercials, jingles and ad campaigns absorbed over years of wasted hours watching TV. And that experience suggests Nevada’s new branding campaign may not go down in history.

Tradition trumps Cadish

Perhaps the saddest aspect of Clark County District Court Judge Elissa Cadish’s failed nomination to the  federal bench is that nothing has changed.

Marilyn’s mad

If you think the oddest thing that happened during the first week of the Legislature involved Assemblyman Steven Brooks, you missed the real drama.