Last week, Sparks Mayor Geno Martini presented his annual State of the City address.
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...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast....
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was keeping up the pressure on Iran on Wednesday, consulting with the United States' closest and most influential ally in the Persian Gulf about how to respond to Iran's disputed nuclear program....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer accused political opponents Wednesday of trying to exploit the controversy surrounding former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid accusations of sexual harassment....
PUL-E-CHARKHI, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal....
