Personal finance experts don’t agree on everything, but every last one of them will provide this bit of advice: the smallest expenses matter.
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The federal justice system’s contempt for transparency knows no bounds. A culture that has long rejected openness and accountability to taxpayers is taking secrecy to an outrageous new level in the prosecution of defendants in the valley’s homeowner association fraud case.
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The Budget Control Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2011 to end a debt ceiling standoff, brought “sequester” into the American vocabulary by guaranteeing billions of dollars in automatic federal budget cuts if a congressional supercommittee couldn’t reach a bipartisan deal on spending reductions. The idea was to force Democrats and Republicans to strike a compromise by imposing an unimaginably horrific, Draconian alternative if they failed.
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In sports, there is always one ultimate arbiter: the scoreboard. When the clock hits zero or the last out is recorded, nothing else matters.
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The country’s high schools are in an achievement holding pattern. The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, an achievement test administered to high school seniors every four years by the federal government, contained no good news for American students and taxpayers.
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What’s important enough to bring Democratic Sen. Harry Reid and Republican Sen. Dean Heller together? Interstate 11.
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The Clark County School District talks tough when it comes to bullying but, in at least two cases, did little to nothing to back up that bluster.
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Everyone makes mistakes. Unfortunately, not everyone learns from them.
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President Barack Obama says this is a “year of action.” He says he will continue to act whenever he can — and alone, if he has to — to create jobs and expand opportunities for Americans during this “prolonged recovery period” following “the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”
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The AFL-CIO has learned from Big Labor’s Obamacare debacle: hugely complex initiatives that jack up taxes and grow government aren’t good for the economy, much less unions.
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John Bonaventura is the worst elected official in Nevada. In a state with no shortage of incompetent, duplicitous and self-serving politicians, Bonaventura lowered the bar — he so quickly became such an embarrassment as Las Vegas constable that Clark County commissioners voted to abolish his office. When his term mercifully expires in January, his entire operation will disappear. The Metropolitan Police Department will take on the constable’s duties of serving court papers and eviction notices.
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The value of having large, private ambulance companies doing business in Southern Nevada was on display after the May 3 Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana fight at the MGM Grand Garden. A loud bang triggered a stampede of fans fearful of gunfire, leaving dozens of people hurt, 60 people treated for injuries and 24 people in various hospitals.
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Medical marijuana can be synthesized and sold as a liquid. But it’s still not as strong as the juice on display at the Clark County Government Center, where influential Southern Nevada political and industry figures are chasing a limited number of licenses for pot businesses.
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Colleges and universities like to promote themselves as open-minded bastions of diversity. They strive to fill their campuses with people of different races and backgrounds.
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The city of Henderson has taken some criticism in recent weeks, and rightly so, by getting its financial house in order on the backs of its residents. The municipality is cutting services, increasing fees and might yet raise property taxes, rather than enacting much-needed changes in employee compensation. With the effects of the Great Recession lingering, many of those same residents are still underwater or treading water on the houses and businesses subject to those property taxes.
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