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.
Editorials
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.
You were taught the speech in grade school. Perhaps you memorized it. But did you fully comprehend its significance? Probably not.
Another proposal to increase the sales tax rate and boost the budgets of Southern Nevada police departments will go before the Clark County Commission on Tuesday. It’s as unworthy of approval as its predecessors.
Include new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell among those who want President Barack Obama to bypass Congress whenever it suits his administration.
The Nevada Supreme Court made it clear: The pension benefits of retired government workers are public records. The court’s unanimous ruling Thursday effectively ends decades of wrongful secrecy at the Public Employees Retirement System and finally makes it possible for taxpayers to learn just how much they’re paying the people who no longer work for them.
Six years ago, almost no one would have suggested that the Las Vegas Marathon could become a top special event and a major tourism driver. The run had chronically low participation and could barely pay its bills. It was at risk of disappearing completely.
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5 killed in North Las Vegas; gunman dies by suicide
What’s that massive building going up near Ikea in southwest Las Vegas?
What’s happening with Mirage room rates ahead of July closure?
German railway manufacturer to open $20M facility in North Las Vegas
Juvenile killed in multi-vehicle crash on US 95 in Henderson
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