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Schools need to get back to basic learning skills

COMMUNITY VIEWPOINT: In response to Sheriff DeMeo

The following statement is in response to Sheriff DeMeo’s recent press conference regarding the arrest of Sgt. Michael Horn. In his zeal to cast blame onto me and others, Sheriff DeMeo failed to check the facts of the matter involving the incident reported to me in 2013.

Primary endorsement policy continues to roil GOP waters

At the recent Washoe County Republican convention a resolution was passed declaring that the local party was “manifestly opposed” to the pre-primary endorsement “scheme” being pursued by the leaders and members of the Nevada Republican Central Committee. Not just opposed; “manifestly” opposed … whatever that means.

Believing people who should know

A few days ago the Reno Gazette Journal, which has been running front page historical items about Nevada during this 149th year of statehood, published an item reporting that “Ronald Reagan’s rally for Republican candidates for state office at the University of Nevada, Reno quad on Oct. 7, 1982, was the first visit to campus by a sitting U.S. president.”

A true Obama administration scandal

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s foes have been trying for years to uncover scandal in his administration. But the most damning allegation of wrongdoing was leveled on the Senate floor Tuesday morning — by a friend.

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