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In Wednesday’s Letters to the Editor, two letters were inadvertently combined. Our apologies to both writers. Here they are in their correct form.

A tribute to a great town and travel buddy

Just like towns, our lives are boom and bust, and this holiday season I’m just thankful for the time that we had together.

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Dr. Waters does not speak for the majority of military veterans when he disparages Donald Trump.

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It seems the narrative is, “if you can afford solar power you must be rich, so you can pay more too.”

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COMMUNITY VIEWPOINT: VEA board offers valuable leadership

At Valley Electric Association, Inc. (VEA), we take pride in providing our members with local, democratic control of their cooperative. This is a core philosophy of the cooperative business model, and it is one of the primary reasons for VEA’s continued progress and success. Our elected Board of Directors provides valuable oversight and supports VEA’s ongoing mission to build a strong future for the cooperative and its members.

Nevada GOP moves boldly into new leadership role

The Nevada Republican Party has officially chosen for the top two ballot slots for the 2014 election cycle a Hispanic and a woman, two demographics Republicans have struggled mightily to woo in recent elections.

Journalism blows the Bundy story

There are flaws in news coverage. By its very nature, conflict is news and normality is not. We don’t report the banks that have not been robbed each day.

Hey Congress: Try inhaling and chill out

WASHINGTON — Legal marijuana is spreading like a weed across the land but it has yet to take root in the place where people might benefit most from inhaling: the U.S. Capitol.

The horrible reform ahead

During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, corruption in government and industry was so common and blatant that it generated widespread revulsion in the public. It led to the Progressive Era, when remedies were adopted that turned out to be less than successful, such as initiative, referendum, and recall. Today the initiative petition process in California is a national joke and its use here in Nevada has effectively been limited to special interests.

A counter for hysterics in Michigan

DETROIT — Robert Griffin, now 90, who rose to be second in the Republican U.S. Senate leadership, was defeated in 1978. Since then, only one Michigan Republican, Spencer Abraham in 1994, has been elected to the Senate and for only one term. Evidence that former Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land might end this GOP drought is that Democrats are attacking her for opposing “preventive health care.”

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Letters to the Editor

In Wednesday’s Letters to the Editor, two letters were inadvertently combined. Our apologies to both writers. Here they are in their correct form.