EDITORIAL: Judicial politics

Politics can never be removed from the courts, not even if judicial elections are replaced with an appointment system.

Reid needs a dose of reality on Obamacare

Cartoonist Gary Larson once drew a scientist pictured on his back on his office floor, legs and arms straight up. The caption read: “How entomologists pass away.”

Appoint judges now!

If there’s one inescapable conclusion to Review-Journal reporter Jane Ann Morrison’s excellent story last Sunday, it’s this: We’ve got to stop electing judges.

EDITORIAL: Property tax caps

Nevada governments face two very inconvenient realities about state tax policy.

Nevada GOP drops platforms against abortions, gay marriage, endorses Sandoval

Amid raucous debate, Nevada Republican Party conventioneers on Saturday stripped opposition to gay marriage and abortion from the party platform and endorsed Gov. Brian Sandoval for governor in the June 10 primary despite misgivings by conservatives, his criticism of the process and his absence from the meeting.

Washington Digest: House Republicans approve budget blueprint

House Republicans last week approved a blueprint for balancing the federal budget in 10 years, mostly by cutting taxes, revamping social programs and making deep cuts in domestic spending.

Five charged in kidnapping of NC prosecutor’s father

A North Carolina man whose daughter prosecutes violent crimes was rescued by an elite FBI team after he was kidnapped and terrorized for five days in what authorities described as an act of retaliation involving the Bloods street gang.

Dramatic new look readied for Red Rock Resort

Times change. With a 1.6 million-square-foot regional shopping center scheduled to open within walking distance across Summerlin Centre Drive in October, Red Rock Resort will undergo its largest and most costly renovation since Station Casinos opened the property on April 15, 2006, at a eye-popping cost of $925 million.

Chuck Lorre’s sitcom ‘Mom’ adopts serious tone

A pregnant teenager, the daughter of an unmarried mother and granddaughter of another, is repeating family history. Does she decide to keep her baby and do her immature best to raise it, or choose adoption for her offspring?

Visions of 1964 World’s Fair didn’t all come true

Video phone calls? Yeah, we do that. Asking computers for information? Sure, several times a day. Colonies on the moon and jet packs as a mode of everyday transportation. OK, maybe not.

Nevada Athletic Commission still without an executive director

The five-member commission decided it needs more time to go through the credentials of the four finalists that interviewed Saturday. A special meeting has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday to make a decision on replacing Keith Kizer, who resigned back on Jan. 10.

Del Rey more of an idea than gripping performer

The audience screamed as if being consumed by the flames that flickered across the video screen at the back of the stage.

‘Jubilee’ reboot strange, generic

Some things never change and perhaps never should. So maybe it’s no surprise, even a bit reassuring, that “Jubilee” is still camp.

23 places to try for casual American dining

Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with casual American restaurants this week.

Pakistan judge frees baby in attempted murder case

A Pakistani lawyer says a judge has freed a nine-month old boy accused of attempting to murder police in the eastern city of Lahore after police withdrew charges.

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