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Will Reform Outlast the Reformers?
James Guthrie may have been ahead of his time
May 21st, 2013
Washington, D.C., and Nevada have a few things in common: We both like to talk about budgets, we’re both home to dysfunctional representative bodies, we both asked lightning-rod reformers to turn around floundering school systems, and in both cases the reformers left without finishing the job. Read more »
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Living Well After Livengood?
The search could go nationwide, but some local names merit a look
May 9th, 2013
The search could go nationwide, but some local names merit a look. Read more »
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Are You Ready to Be the Cure?
New options in health care will require heavy participation from patients
May 7th, 2013
We’ve all gotten the memo that change is coming to health care, but few of us really understand what that means. One thing seems clear: We, the consumers, will be asked to take much more responsibility for our own care. Many of the big-ticket new ideas—health care co-ops, patient-centered outcomes research and the digital health care revolution—rely heavily on the patient. Read more »
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Henderson’s Hail Mary
Beset by delays, developers still hope to get 'health village' moving forward
May 1st, 2013
As the one-time commissioner of the fast-paced Arena Football League, David Baker became accustomed to seeing a touchdown about every 90 seconds and final scores in the 74-68 range. Cue the irony: As the main man behind the $1.5 billion integrated health village planned for Henderson, Baker is involved in a game that’s scoreless … and has been for more than two years. Read more »
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The Nightclubization of Schools: a Daydream
April 24th, 2013
The tipping point was the residencies. Admittedly, when they began, we were all for them. Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall did a 13-day run at Halle Hewetson Elementary and we were so amazed, so pleased; here was someone with a career’s worth of material, someone with all the juice she needed to do a world tour, doing a Vegas residency. “We’ve evolved,” the critics said. Read more »
Green Government
County, Henderson get serious about commitment to sustainability
April 17th, 2013
A few years back, in the heart of the Great Recession, Southern Nevada’s municipal governments did something remarkably grown-up: They invested in our sustainability infrastructure. Read more »
The Hazards of the Blip
Dismissing our economic failures as anomalies will doom us to repeat them
April 10th, 2013
“Failure,” the las Vegas motivational economist Jeremy Aguero said recently, “is part of human advancement.” He’s right, but there’s a corollary: Failure is part of human advancement—provided that he who fails can honestly examine the causes and consequences of his blunder, make corresponding adjustments and proceed as a wiser man. Read more »
Excuse Them While They Clear Their Throats
What has the Legislature done so far?
April 3rd, 2013
The 2013 Nevada Legislature has been something like that period of time at The Smith Center between the bartenders pouring your beer into a sippy cup and the orchestra making warm-up sounds from the pit. In fact, you might say our lawmakers have continued gargling salt water and doing scales behind the velvet curtains well into the first act. Read more »
Just a Number
November 1st, 2012
Before it’s too late, please stop using your brilliant equations to categorize and subcategorize the subtleties of our humanity. If you don’t, I’m afraid your strings of zeros and ones will mutate into a media virus causing innocent consumers to absorb and embody your predictions before they even know what’s hit them. Read more »
Compassion, Awareness and Pinkwashing
October 4th, 2012
More insidious is the possibility of pinkwashing: exploiting a noble cause for commercial purposes. Most of the advertisements in the pink paper had some direct relationship to fundraising, patient support or research, but a couple gave me a queasy feeling—such as one casino’s emphatic half-pager prompting readers to earn enough points for a pink-ribbon charm bracelet by playing slots. Read more »
