Happy New Year!

We wish we could say the RJ is off to the right track, but Sunday's edition once again repeated the same old song from 2009.

Sherman Frederick once again was slamming President Obama; the letters to the editor were attacking Sen. Reid with the same fervor and once again the only opinions the RJ trusts are those attacking Reid or offered by the Nevada Policy Research Institute.

After a banner year in 2009, NPRI was off to a quick start, getting its first hit in the RJ this year on Jan. 3. http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/empowerment-model-puts-classrooms-first-80528797.html

The RJ also closed out 2009 with a few corrections. Scott Wyland made a daring effort to crack the top three with his Dec. 31st correction showing once again he knows not what the county does.  "A story in Wednesday's Review-Journal on a proposal to require further certification of private-sector building inspectors should have said that one county inspector in 2007 overlooked serious defects in remodeling at the Rio, prompting a scathing audit. Although the district attorney filed misdemeanor charges against Harrah's after an investigation of several casino remodeling projects, those charges were dropped and no charges were ever filed against the county inspector."

Alas, James Haug finished third, Jane Ann Morrison second and Norm Clarke came in first.

The other end-of-year correction was on a Richard Lake puff piece -- this one from a story he wrote falling for a Venetian marketing ploy about an expensive cupcake. He spelled a name wrong. Must have been too high on the chocolate and cognac he consumed writing about it.

We'll still be correcting the RJ each day, so check for new corrections.