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DMV upgrade could cost Nevada extra $300M amid rollout woes

The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles’ modernization of its computer system could take longer than anticipated and cost the state more than $300 million in additional funding.

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In the end, this election wasn’t decided by Russian hacking, sexual assault charges, “blood coming out of her whatever,” the FBI or any of the other extraordinary moments that defied the norms of political behavior and discourse.

Muth: Stuck-on-stupid government: Another in a series

One of the more annoying things about government is how it regularly invents confusing, often unintelligible, terms for important public policy issues which leave the public scratching its collective heads with bafflement. For example, “Predicate Date.”

Myers: Pot opponents help spread drug use

One of the messages baby boomers grew up with is that one of the worst ways to improve behavior is by lying about it. In the mid-1960s when LSD came on the scene, drug officials said it was just as dangerous as marijuana.

Knecht and Lawrence: Three state ballot measures we oppose

Last week we discussed the state ballot measure that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Nevada. We have mixed views on that issue, but there are three other important state ballot questions we oppose.

Knapp: Obamacare, things fall apart

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare,” was intended to dramatically increase the number of Americans with health coverage while “bending the cost curve” (that is, reducing the expected increases in price over time).

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