Last week, Sparks Mayor Geno Martini presented his annual State of the City address. He reminded us of the effects the financial crises has had on our city, its employees, businesses and the reside...
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...
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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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...
Obama betrays gays, lesbians
Promises, promises, promises. President Obama is great on promises. But his delivery is often nil, as gays and lesbians can attest. While campaigning for the Illinois state senate in 1996, Obama d...
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans and their lawmakers are dramatically out of sync on health care, with large majorities of people looking for bipartisan cooperation that's nowhere in sight....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but described it as tickling, not sexual behavior....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year....
