Brian Greenspun

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Making educators’ dreams come true is a beautiful thing: Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008; We’re dreaming of a white Christmas. Everybody knows how close Las Vegas came to having one this year. We came within a few days of that magical moment millions of Americans take for granted in the northeastern United States but few have seen in these parts. So who is going to complain about a few days here or there?
You want our money? Here’s how to earn it: With public funding must come responsibility, first and foremost, to the public; Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008; Thursday night’s U.S. Senate defeat of a bailout measure for the car manufacturers in the United States may prove to be the disaster so many people have been foretelling, or it may be the greatest exaltation of the free market system known to man. What it won’t be, though, is a shining moment for the people in Congress who hung tough for ideological reasons.
This is a time for propping up, not for tearing down: Recession has created needs that must be met if we all are to survive the crisis; Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008; Visibility zero. Who can see a thing?
A time to give thanks and a time to join in a call for peace: Terrorist attacks in India another wake-up call to world; Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008; It is still my favorite holiday.
Nixon set back our leadership potential a generation: Justifiable mistrust turned media into private eyes; Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008; Maybe Mike O’Callaghan was right. Again. I remember that day 35 years ago like it was yesterday. I was visiting with then-Governor O’Callaghan at the home of longtime Nevadan George Brookman in Las Vegas. He was swimming and I was asking questions. We did that often.
The question isn’t just who deserves a bailout: Car makers have selves to blame, but their failure would hurt too many; Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008; Let me know when we have reached the deep end of the pool.
Nation’s politics have come full circle in just 40 years: Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008; Just a walk in the park. It was 40 years ago that a large group of Americans, mostly young people, gathered in Grant Park in Chicago to participate in a demonstration of some of our most precious freedoms — the freedom to speak, to assemble and to seek redress of our grievances.
Job creation is key to economic recovery: Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008; In response to Sarah Palin and the Republican Party’s campaign message and solution to the economic crisis of “Drill, baby, drill,” Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has used this message over and over again on the campaign trail: “Jobs, jobs, jobs.”
Multistate cooperation key to future of Nevada: Brookings, UNLV to offer peek at benefits for Vegas; Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008; The future of Las Vegas starts Tuesday.
Giving taxpayers a stake is an idea worth a look: Worries about socialism shouldn’t block government investment in companies; Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008; Given a choice between socialism and capitalism, I think I would like to try the first one.