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Saving millions
In May 2008, Gov. Jim Gibbons, preparing wisely for worst case economic conditions, put together a bipartisan team of 14 senior business leaders: seven Democrats and seven Republicans.
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Use a book, go to prison
I took my boys, ages 10 and 11, to the library last week and some of the books we returned were overdue and had fines. They asked me what would happen if they didn’t pay their fines and I told the...
Mar 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A Tanzanian educational model
Insofar as Gov. Jim Gibbons is hell-bent on dismantling all the progress and advances in education in Nevada during the last two or three decades under the guise of maintaining a balanced budget, ...
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Now a word from our sponsor
Twenty years ago, I attended my first professional baseball game at the Oakland Coliseum. In the eyes of a 13-year-old, it was an awe-inspiring experience. It was a cross-bay preseason game betwee...
Mar 06, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three people with ties to the American consulate in a drug-plagued Mexican city were killed in a drive-by shooting, a U.S. official said Sunday....
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
Sun Mar 14 13:15:46 -0500 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects....
By LIBBY QUAID
Sun Mar 14 17:20:03 -0500 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn....
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Sun Mar 14 12:58:04 -0500 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The senator trying to rewrite the nation's financial industry rules is dropping plans to create a stand-alone consumer financial protection agency and give a single regulator the power to oversee all banks, according to people familiar with the evolving proposal....
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Sun Mar 14 15:33:06 -0500 2010