Opinion

Nevadans are being bombarded with frequent phone surveys these days. Most of them are designed to figure out that presidential race, but some are efforts down ticket to push and pull the electorate.

To the editor:

The valley’s lousy economy is no excuse to stop planning for Southern Nevada’s future prosperity. The key to that planning is making better use of the vast tracts of barren desert managed, at your expense, by the federal government.

Would a free market in schooling — one free of “intrusive regulation of the curricula, methods, and personnel decisions” of the schools, one in which schools compete for the tuition money of parents exercising free choice over where to send their kids — produce better results for America?

Leave it to Old Senate Hand Joe Biden to inject some much-needed honesty into an increasingly deceitful presidential campaign.

To the editor:

Jurors in death penalty trials have a tough job.

Those seeking to control mosquito-borne diseases have come up with a clever strategy.

How ironic that taxpayers’ new best friend in the politically impossible task of reforming public employee pensions is none other than the tax man himself.

To the editor: