There’s nothing more telling of a society’s priorities than condolences. Not just any condolences. Condolences that arrive during nontragic times.
WASHINGTON — The wall of framed photos with political heavyweights from Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to Barack Obama — reputedly one of the more impressive collections in town accumulated over 30 years — has been taken down.
The argument for Dodgers rookie outfielder Yasiel Puig making the National League All-Star team dates to Milwaukee in 2002, to a game that ended in controversy and a 7-7 tie.
Lukas Larson says some people practice flesh suspension for artistic expression. He sells many of the supplies for the activity.
Local food critic John Curtas is getting called out for his response after tweeting what was taken as a slur by Japanese. Referring to a youtube.com video that features yodeling Japanese singer Takeo Ischi, Curtas tweeted, “The best Jap-German collaboration since 1941.”
Creech Air Force Base drone crews operate unmanned aircraft in war zones from their Indian Springs location.
The U.S. Geological Survey plans to use less sophisticated drones to spy on Southern Nevada’s mule deer and bighorn sheep later this year.
On reviewjournal.com today, Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute and Robert Lang and William Brown of UNLV’s Brookings Mountain West address an important topic that generates precious little public debate: Federal funding of state and local government services.
Anderson Silva has toyed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight division for seven years. All of that playing finally caught up with him in the main event of UFC 162 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night.
Valedictorian Patrick Casa comes from a military family, and it was in keeping with a proud tradition that upon graduation from high school he was accepted to the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Crews battling the wildfire that consumed Carpenter Canyon on the west side of the Spring Mountains switched their focus to the small community of Kyle Canyon to the east on Saturday.
Who keeps more of Southern Nevada’s federal tax money — Washington, D.C., or Carson City? Turns out it’s a toss-up. So how do we fix the problem? With D.C., we need to get in the game. With Carson City, we need to change the game.
The Founding Fathers granted the federal government several enumerated powers and a few implied ones. The Supreme Court, in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius, decided to take that idea a few steps further and granted the federal government the authority to use its taxing power to compel the citizenry to do whatever it wants it to do, as long as it uses certain turns of phrase. But that is only a recent development, and sometimes the unrestrained exercise of raw power is not politically palatable.