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Caucus learning experience starts here

If you haven’t paid attention to Nevada’s presidential caucus process and want to know how it will work, this column is for you.

Don’t jump to conclusions about neighbors with out-of-state plates

Nobody likes a rat, but apparently that doesn’t bother too many Road Warrior readers. They want to be rats. Or, more accurately, they want their neighbors to pay their fair share of licensing and registration fees for their vehicles once they have established residency and want to know how they tell authorities about neighbors who haven’t complied.

Barrick’s legacy alive in lectures

Following a nine-month hiatus, UNLV’s Barrick Lecture Series is back. The first address under UNLV President Len Jessup’s watch was delivered Tuesday by writer and CNN host Fareed Zakaria.

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With warmer weather coming soon, road crews can’t be far behind

It’s February, and Las Vegans know what that means: The weather is going to get nicer, the road crews are going to want to get out there before it gets too hot, and that means one thing — more orange cones!

Judge for yourself, but election change not for better

Legislators in 2015 made a major change in how judges, regents and other nonpartisan candidates in county and statewide races are elected. As a result, many of this year’s nonpartisan races will be decided by fewer voters.

Taxicab Authority faces devastating audit

It’s going to take some time for the dust to settle on last week’s explosive audit findings that Southern Nevada taxi companies took advantage of their customers to the tune of $47 million in unnecessary fuel surcharges and overpriced credit-card fees.

Judicial elections needing scrutiny

Vincent Ginn was the last person to enter a Clark County judicial race Friday, and he attracted some attention because he had already done so. He switched races just before the 5 p.m. deadline to file for office.

Inaccurate ‘twits’ hurt Goodman’s big speech

Distracting, annoying, often trivial, repetitive and even inaccurate. I’m not referring to Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s 2016 State of the City speech. I’m referring to the tweets that flashed on a monitor during her remarks Jan. 7.

HOV lane scofflaws keep bugging along

Don’t they make you mad, those ineligible high-occupancy-vehicle lane scofflaws who treat the special diamond lane as just another travel lane?

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