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By David McGrath Schwartz and Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun
Gov. Jim Gibbons declared this week that Nevada's future education policy will emerge from a blue ribbon task force he created by executive order.
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By Valerie Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal
The uncertainty of Nevada's future tax environment is hurting the state's ability to attract new companies, and fears of possible tax hikes are driving companies looking to move to pick other Western states, Gov. Jim Gibbons said Thursday.
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Special legislative session advocated for water rights
By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun
The Nevada Legislature should be called into special session soon to clarify confusion created by the Nevada Supreme Court on thousands of water rights, say advocates for homebuilders, organized labor and the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
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The empire strikes out
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
 New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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An alternative to 'alternative' assets
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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GOP plots strategies to nullify health bill
By Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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