With so many charitable efforts under way to help Southern Nevada’s neediest residents, there isn’t enough space in this newspaper to properly recognize them all.
Editorials
It’s easy to say sports really aren’t that important, that they’re just games. But special individuals, coaches and teams do so much more than provide us with entertainment. They rally and unite a community like almost nothing else. It’s all too rare when everyone has something in common to support, regardless of their politics or their economic fortunes.
Few situations match the political jockeying, back-room lobbying and public posturing of a college presidential vacancy.
Arne Duncan is the Obama administration’s secretary of education, the highest position in the nation as it relates to schools. Yet it’s quite apparent he has plenty to learn, having been rightly schooled over an astounding comment he made about those who are questioning the new Common Core State Standards rolling into K-12 schools across the nation.
Nevada has blocked the opening of a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. But Nevada might be powerless to stop the U.S. Department of Energy’s announced plan to ship more than 400 containers of nuclear-power fuel waste from Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to the Nevada National Security Site.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid loved the filibuster before he hated it. Which means he’s sure to love it again, when the practice suits him.
The education profession has an image problem. On one hand, teachers are college-educated professionals who practice a critically important craft. On the other hand, the jobs of unionized public school teachers are largely immune from performance pressures and are locked into industrial-era pay scales that treat them as unskilled labor.
It’s hard to let go of the good old days. But they aren’t coming back. Some of today’s reminders of life before the Great Recession remain especially painful. Like home values.
Fifty years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, an event that older Americans still well recall.
The left’s campaign to save Obamacare from itself, as well as salvage Barack Obama’s presidency, is well into the make-stuff-up phase of damage control, completely changing the pretext under which the disastrous Affordable Care Act was enacted.
President Barack Obama is in dire need of political cover. Obamacare is a disaster, and the public isn’t buying overpriced health insurance, much less the president’s promise to address the law’s failures.
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