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In all my years of employment and seeking a job, I have never seen such confusion like that of the new interim town manager.

Arranging second place

Gov. Brian Sandoval has thrown his support behind Clark County Sen. Sen. Mark Hutchison for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. If any other Republicans were considering running, Sandoval has effectively told them to include themselves out.

Press promotes discord in coverage

WASHINGTON — Former President George W. Bush, on his recent trip to Africa, toured Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. He then sat down for an interview that may qualify as the eighth.

Egypt’s preferable tyranny

WASHINGTON — Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi knows neither Thomas Jefferson’s advice that “great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities” nor the description of Martin Van Buren as a politician who “rowed to his object with muffled oars.” Having won just 52 percent of the vote, Morsi pursued his objective — putting Egypt irrevocably on a path away from secular politics and social modernity — noisily and imprudently.

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Valley Electric board, management and staff get a big “job well done” for the electric service provided during the past heat wave.

Side-effect of reunion: host-family hangover

After months of planning and preparing, which led to a week of entertaining a big crowd of family and friends, it ended. In a whirlwind of chaos, it all unraveled as planned. Then, everything slipped back to its normal state of being.

Press promotes discord in coverage

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Voting Rights Act on June 25, Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Harry Reid issued a statement calling the decision “extreme judicial activism” that was “wrongly decided and will unjustly threaten the right to vote for millions of Americans across this country.”

California schemers urge eminent domain abuse here in Nevada

As Nevada citizens are well aware, an awful lot of really bad liberal public policy ideas come out of our neighboring state to the west. Indeed, they don’t call California the “land of fruits and nuts” for nuthin’.