Staff editorials

In north-south battle, who's robbing whom?

Wednesday, May 08 2013 02:54 Andrew Doughman, for the Las Vegas Sun

Andrew Doughman takes a look at the perspectives of northern and southern Nevadans in the distribution of wealth for the state's public services.

To read the full post in the Las Vegas Sun: In the north-south battle, who's robbing whom?

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Sunday Morning Reflections: Doing healthcare on the cheap a bad idea

Sunday, April 28 2013 12:49 Dee Holzel

I sat down this morning and watched a very interesting documentary: Idiocracy. The documentary was narrated by “Joe” who plays the role in the movie that I play in real life: attempting to go around explaining things all the time using logic and reason but getting nowhere.

Yet, I can't help myself. I feel compelled to drag an unwilling populace into the light (go into the light, into the light).

Conservative think tank sues over government email

Friday, March 29 2013 06:03 NPRI Press Release

LAS VEGAS — Today, the Nevada Policy Research Institute’s Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation filed a lawsuit under the Nevada Public Records Act against the Clark County School District.

NPRI is seeking a list of government-issued email addresses for CCSD teachers. Joseph Becker, chief legal officer and director of CJCL, will represent NPRI in the lawsuit.

Quality Counts: In school rankings NV can brag, "We're not as bad as South Dakota."

Saturday, February 02 2013 03:29 Dee Holzel

Education Week recently released its 17th annual ranking of best and worst schools in the US. You'll have to scroll to the bottom to find Nevada, which came in at #50 -- beating out the state with the worst schools in the country, South Dakota at #51, for the bottom honor. But it's really not as bad as it looks, says State Superintendent of Schools James Guthrie, it's just that Las Vegas schools are bad and their scores are dragging down the rest of the state (Las Vegas is the fifth largest school district in the country). I think it's safe to say the excuse-making and finger-pointing have begun.

Leaders say Las Vegas to blame for Nevada's low education ranking (RGJ)

The states with the best and worst schools (Yahoo)

Quality Counts 2013 Education Rankings Come In: Maryland First, South Dakota Last (Huffington Post)

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Leading by example: Amodei to return $155,000 in unspent office funds to treasury

Monday, January 28 2013 06:31 From the Office of Congressman Mark Amodei

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) today announced he will return approximately $155,000 in unspent office funds to the U.S. Treasury to be applied toward national debt reduction. This represents nearly 11 percent of Amodei's budget for 2012. Last year, Amodei returned $86,800 to the treasury or 18 percent of his prorated budget

President Barack Obama takes 23 Executive Actions

Thursday, January 24 2013 03:00 Issued by President Barack Obama

Per reader request: President Obama takes 23 Executive actions on varoius issues from mental health to background checks.

Sheriff's lack of knowledge on Constitutional law goes public; residents blush for shame

Saturday, January 19 2013 15:53 Dee Holzel

WINNEMUCCA — This is the strangest little community. God bless them, there are folk living here who will go on and on about the Constitution, and how we should get back to the principles of the Founding Fathers, but who have not the slightest knowledge of the document.

Speaking of Sheriff Ed Kilgore, many of you may still be blushing for shame at the letter he wrote to Vice President Joe Biden, which he released to the state media and they printed because it was apparently a slow news day. In the letter the sheriff declared he would not uphold any gun laws he deemed unconstitutional, and he alone would determine what was or was not constitutional.

Mother Jones link: PTSD and families

Saturday, January 19 2013 04:39 Mother Jones link

This is worth a couple of reads. We can't underestimate the damage of war on our families, generation after generation, from Vietnam to Iraq, and the rippling effect of having someone in the house who's broken multiplied by millions of homes. It's not just the violence or the extreme mental health issues or the substance abuse or the missing lack of support from that person -- it's all of it. It took me decades to understand the effect of the Vietnam War on my MOTHER, who lost both her brother and husband in Vietnam (her brother was killed there; her husband came home broken and an empty shell of a human being). DH

From Mother Jones: Is PTSD Contagious?

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Staff editorials

In north-south battle, who's robbing whom?

Sunday Morning Reflections: Doing healthcare on the cheap a bad idea

Conservative think tank sues over government email

Quality Counts: In school rankings NV can brag, "We're not as bad as South Dakota."

Leading by example: Amodei to return $155,000 in unspent office funds to treasury

President Barack Obama takes 23 Executive Actions

Sheriff's lack of knowledge on Constitutional law goes public; residents blush for shame

Mother Jones link: PTSD and families

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