COVER STORY
FREE-MARKET FURY
BY JOSHUA CHASE
Cash lenders hope to educate lawmakers before regulation cripples a booming industry
COLUMNISTS
GOP
GEORGE
BY GEORGE HARRIS
While UMC offers our state financial distress, could the SEIU be a culprit?
FRENCH CONNECTION
BY DOUG FRENCH
For those believing that November's votes would stop war in the Middle East, guess again
GIVE
ME A BREAK
BY JOHN STOSSEL
If minimum-wage laws help the poor, why not raise their rates to $50 an hour? The answer is simple.
THE
WATCHDOG
BY JOE ENGE
At-risk students show that gains made during the kindergarten year are lost by the end of first grade
THE
CONSERVATIVE
CURE
BY CHUCK MUTH
There's one, and only one, solution to Nevada's education problem - and it isn't all-day kindergarten
THE
REACTIONARY UTOPIAN
BY JOE SOBRAN
Education isn't free unless schools can define success on their own terms rather than the state's
A MINORITY VIEW
BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
The nation's food zealots have taken a page from their anti-smoking counterparts
SPEAKING
OF LIBERTY
BY LEW ROCKWELL
Contrary to the propaganda, money is a sign and seal of success, not a motivating factor
TRUE
SOUTH
BY KEN WARD
America is headed for more dropouts, illiteracy, crime and demands for government services
HEIDIOLOGY
BY HEIDI HARRIS
Southern Nevada's homeless committee is going to extraordinary measures to beef up the numbers
NO
SPIN ZONE
BY BILL O'REILLY
Americans are fighting the good fight, bringing freedom to people who have never experienced it
NEWS
MENTAL INSTABILITY
BY DIANE M GRASSI
Healthcare treatment for returning troops proves troubling
ENFORCEMENT?
BY LEWIS WHITTEN
One 7-11 chooses its own no-smoking rules
FEATURES
HARDBACK
BY DOUG FRENCH
Whatever your ideology, Bill Kauffman's words will touch your soul and make you long for his America
DINING
BY JARRET KEENE
Few pads compare to the Freakin' Frog
WINE
BY DAVID HIMMEL
Welcome to Baja's Adobe Guadalupe, a working vineyard and Bed and Breakfast
ROVING
EYE
Dr. Dave Maxwell's Rockin' New Year's Eve Party
POST
OFFICE
LAUGHS
NEVADA
HUGHES CROSSWORD
