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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.

Circumstances shine big light on little job

Will Rogers once said the vice president had the best job in the country. “All he has to do is get up every day and say, ‘How is the president?’ ”

On immigration reform, Joe Heck walks, talks straight line

Rep. Joe Heck can sure draw a crowd. The Republican congressman packed the house at the monthly breakfast meeting of Hispanics in Politics this week, and there wasn’t much question why: People wanted to hear about immigration reform.

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Maybe we could sell subscriptions to support police?

If there’s a worse way to supplement Clark County police budgets than the More Cops sales tax approach, we’d be hard-pressed to find it.

STEVE SEBELIUS: Gov. Veto? Not quite

Gov. Brian Sandoval has always benefitted by comparisons to his predecessor.

Settlement may end NLV case with a whimper

When last we checked in with the financially strapped city of North Las Vegas in 2012, it was suspending collective bargaining agreements with public safety agencies under a highly questionable interpretation of state law that was ripe for overturning by the courts.

Will Las Vegas take a stand in this revolution?

Las Vegas City Manager Betsy Fretwell says Las Vegas has the potential to be a “sleeper city,” that is, one that surprises the rest of the country and the world with its innovation and industry.

Is this a veto message or a talk radio script?

The objections lodged by Gov. Brian Sandoval to a bill that would have required background checks for gun sales between private parties are notable primarily because they’re mostly wrong.

Legislature’s best of the best

I knew from the start state Sen. Mark Hutchison, R-Las Vegas, was going to be a good lawmaker. You could tell from his campaign: earnest, respectful and policy-driven.

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