Since fiscal 1991, Citizens Against Government Waste has identified a whopping 132,434 earmarks costing $460.3 billion. That’s a lot of slop in the trough.
Editorials
City, county face financial consequences for property rights violations.
The CBO said that it expects this year’s federal deficit to hit $2 trillion, almost $400 billion higher than the original estimate it released — and Biden boasted about — earlier.
Golden State “price-gouging” law could raise gasoline prices further.
“We understand clearly that he is in prison to get exchanged,” Yevegny Smirnov, a Russian attorney, told The New York Times.
To understand why Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval faces no significant opposition for re-election, voters must look beyond his high approval ratings and his steady leadership in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Voters must look beyond his education reforms, which improved competition and accountability in Nevada’s underachieving public school system, beyond his work attracting new companies and new jobs.
The Review-Journal editorial board offers the following endorsements in this fall’s elections for state Assembly. Endorsements are in bold type.
The Review-Journal editorial board offers the following endorsements in this fall’s elections for attorney general, state treasurer and state controller.
When voting for lieutenant governor, only one question matters: Who is most qualified to become governor? The lieutenant governor is much like the vice president: a heartbeat away from becoming chief executive, but with little power to change policy.
Term limits have shaped the race for secretary of state. Republican state Sen. Barbara Cegavske, an 18-year veteran of the Legislature, faces state Treasurer Kate Marshall, a Democrat. They can’t seek re-election to their current posts, so they’re running for the job being vacated by Democrat Ross Miller, also because of term limits.