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Nevada woman politely declines right-wing's invitation to commit political suicide

The Las Vegas Gleaner - Democratic Rep. Dina Titus will vote for modest reforms to the health insurance industry currently being considered by Congress, because...

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Ensign finally commits unforgiveable sin against local custom and culture

The Las Vegas Gleaner - The whole banging his best friend's wife and getting mommy and daddy to pay everyone off and breaking the law to find Doug Hampton a job in...

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Why does Jerry Tarkanian's son hate America so much?

The Las Vegas Gleaner - From my latest column: Tarkanian's son is a bit of a newcomer to full-on extremist exotica, his zealotry adorned with more than a hint of...

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Reid declares Lowden winner of GOP primary

The Las Vegas Gleaner - Did you know that Republican Senate candidate and inanimate aristocrat Sue Lowden would be willing to let all her servants die, for profit? Some...

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Magazine for civic-spirited nice people goes slumming

The Las Vegas Gleaner - The new guy running Desert Companion, the print component of Southern Nevada's public radio infrastructure, asked your Gleaner to write...

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Dumb economy having trouble keeping pace with sophisticated Nevada policies

Dumb economy having trouble keeping pace with sophisticated Nevada policies

The Las Vegas Gleaner - As everybody knows, the best remedy for a depressed economy is to throw more people out of work. Specifically, when unemployment is high in the private sector, it is absolutely crucial that public...

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Area man saves planet in his spare time

Area man saves planet in his spare time

The Las Vegas Gleaner - Turns out there's been no global warming since 1995, according to a local executive for one of the out-of-state corporations that doesn't pay any significant taxes in Nevada. Whew!...

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Gibbons steps up outreach to teabagger constituency

Gibbons steps up outreach to teabagger constituency

The Las Vegas Gleaner - I must confess at first I flat-out just didn't get the new campaign ad Gov. Jim Gibbons cut with KLAS TV reporter Jonathan Humbert. But then I realized it's another clever ploy to get...

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Your kinder, gentler Gleaner takes a more appreciative view

The Las Vegas Gleaner - In what may come as a pleasant surprise to some readers, critics and Democratic campaign employees, my new CityLife column celebrates the...

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Probably says more about us than it does about him

Probably says more about us than it does about him

The Las Vegas Gleaner - Slap Chop ? Check. Duct tape? Check. Myopia and cowardice? Check and check. Alrighty then, our elected officials are set to go with the latest regular special session of the Legislature to further...

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Every 20 years or so something interesting happens in Arkansas

Every 20 years or so something interesting happens in Arkansas

The Las Vegas Gleaner - Yes, posting, not so much. Your Gleaner is still spending most of his time being a history dork -- speaking of which, I bumped into Jefferson the other day (that's us, talking, at right) and...

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Symbolizing hope and optimism for Nevada and the nation

Symbolizing hope and optimism for Nevada and the nation

The Las Vegas Gleaner - The president's campaign stops on Harry Reid's behalf would be a lot more fun and interesting if the administration and Senate Democrats hadn't spent most of the last year taking...

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'Socialistic tyranny?' Why must our politicians always traffic in redundancies?

'Socialistic tyranny?' Why must our politicians always traffic in redundancies?

The Las Vegas Gleaner - Here's yet another in the interminable contemporary series of long thinky articles expressing Major American Media's ongoing wonderment that stupid white people are still paranoid after...

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Decades of feckless neglect finally good for something

Decades of feckless neglect finally good for something

The Las Vegas Gleaner - An excerpt from my new CityLife column? Why, sure. If the American government is a lost cause for the foreseeable future, perhaps Nevada can help itself. In a recession, neither tax increases nor...

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All sides agree: Burn Nevada down to the ground

The Las Vegas Gleaner - In case you missed the big speech from Gov. Gym Bag O'Cash, here's a paraphrase: Thanks to years of Republican economic policies that...

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