- Sun editorial Clinic would be vital asset
- Plan for elementary school health center on hold pending permit decision
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· Friday, November 6, 2009
- A health clinic planned for Elaine Wynn Elementary School is meeting opposition from several of the school’s neighbors, who learned about the clinic only after a groundbreaking ceremony had taken place.
- Sun editorial Seeking insurance reform
- Las Vegan’s story should persuade lawmakers to back affordable health care
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· Friday, November 6, 2009
- One way to make the case before skeptical members of Congress that health insurance reform is desperately needed is to expose them to more of the real-life stories that haunt tens of millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans.
- Sun editorial Thirty years of enmity
- Relations with Iran have not improved since hostage crisis of 30 years ago
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· Friday, November 6, 2009
- Thirty years ago this week hundreds of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, touching off a hostage crisis that lasted 444 days and beginning an era of enmity between Iran and the United States that continues today.
- Letter to the editor Political system creates poor leaders
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Subhas Dhodapkar, Las Vegas
· Friday, November 6, 2009
- Dave Mesker should be commended for his excellent letter to the editor in Wednesday’s Las Vegas Sun. I agree with all his points, particularly on the lack of leadership in Washington and that the aging Congress is more concerned with itself than about what is beneficial to the average American.
- Letter to the editor Tuesday unveiled major rifts in Republican Party
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Richard J. Mundy, Las Vegas
· Friday, November 6, 2009
- Rather than celebrate the election of Republican governors in Virginia and New Jersey, members of the GOP should worry about the happenings in the 23rd District in upstate New York. Democratic nominee Bill Owens ran against Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava.
- Letter to the editor Leaving troops in Afghanistan would accomplish little
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John F. Encinio, Las Vegas
· Friday, November 6, 2009
- Regarding Stuart Weiss’ Thursday letter to the editor, headlined “We must consider exiting Afghanistan”:
- Letter to the editor U.S. does need to cut spending, starting with wars
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Wallace J. Henkelman, Henderson
· Friday, November 6, 2009
- With all the concern being expressed about the cost of providing reasonable access to health care for U.S. citizens, perhaps we ought to be looking at ways to cut other spending.
- Sun editorial Stop the whining
- Despite Medical Board president’s claim, Nevadans not adequately protected
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· Thursday, November 5, 2009
- It is no secret that the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners has often done a poor job of protecting the public from bad doctors and shoddy medical practices. The only people who do not seem to realize that are members of the board.
- Sun editorial Put down the tea bags
- Suggestions that elections indicate a sea change in politics are premature
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· Thursday, November 5, 2009
- Relishing Tuesday’s GOP victories in the governors races in New Jersey and Virginia, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele declared Wednesday, “The Republican renaissance has begun.” The editors of the conservative National Review declared in a headline Wednesday: “The comeback begins.”
- Sun editorial Rejecting climate bill
- Republicans engage in partisanship as world awaits leadership on warming
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· Thursday, November 5, 2009
- Congressional Republicans this week continued their assault on President Barack Obama’s agenda, this time by acting like juveniles while world leaders pleaded for leadership.
- Letter to the editor We must consider exiting Afghanistan
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Stuart Weiss, Las Vegas
· Thursday, November 5, 2009
- Former Vice President Dick Cheney says President Barack Obama is dithering on Afghanistan. White House spokesmen respond by saying he is deliberating. One thing is certain: The president is trapped in a situation with extraordinary complications abroad and potentially explosive political problems at home.
- Letter to the editor 57-year-old words that continue to ring true today
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David Geisler, Las Vegas
· Thursday, November 5, 2009
- What follows is a brief portion of a speech delivered by President Harry S. Truman at a Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner on March 29, 1952:
- Letter to the editor Politicians work to benefit selves, not the country
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Dale Quale, Las Vegas
· Thursday, November 5, 2009
- Regarding Bob Jack’s Monday letter to the editor, headlined “Maybe major parties should fold ‘big tents’ ”:
- Letter to the editor Live healthfully, and you’ll enjoy more of life
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Malcolm Telloian, North Las Vegas
· Thursday, November 5, 2009
- I was so happy to see Ronald R. Mercer’s letter to the editor in Wednesday’s Las Vegas Sun regarding our lack of responsibility for our own health by not eating right and listening to all the drug commercials on television.
- Sun editorial Signs of national recovery
- Nevada should take hope that several sectors of the economy are improving
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· Wednesday, November 4, 2009
- The recent hiring by MGM Mirage — 12,000 workers for its new CityCenter attraction — brightened the employment picture in Nevada, but only for a short while.
