LETTER: Clark County has a spending problem, not a revenue problem

Together with the generous pensions paid through the PERS system, it is wasteful and ill-conceived government spending that needs to be addressed before we push to milk more money from taxpayers.

LETTER: Populists who voted for Donald Trump made a big mistake

Triple-billionaires do not care if you lose your jobs. Out-of-control capitalism cares even less. You are being used. You are suffering for their profit lust. Mr. Trump is billionaire. Get it?

EDITORIAL: California’s bullet train boondoggle is way over budget and behind schedule

The project thus follows a well-worn pattern for mass transit endeavors that is intimately familiar to bureaucrats and public-sector empire builders everywhere: Intentionally low-ball cost estimates and exaggerate ridership and revenue projections in an effort to mislead the public and generate taxpayer support.

Beauty Bar’s new talent booker is expanding Downtown’s music scene

Patrick “Pulsar” Trout has been booking shows in Vegas since he was a kid just out of high school, when he brought coed rockers The Start to now-shuttered, all-ages music venue/coffee spot Rock N Java over 10 years ago.

5 tips to help you keep your New Year’s fitness resolutions

On Jan. 1, people flocked to gyms around the country, eager to get started on their fitness resolution. But sometimes old habits get in the way of new ones, and those goals get put on the back burner.

Heller named chairman of a Senate Banking subcommittee

U.S. Sen. Dean Heller was named chairman of the Senate Banking subcommittee on securities Tuesday, which will also include U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, both of Nevada.

Late haul puts Sisolak’s campaign war chest at $3.8M

Clark County Commission chairman Steve Sisolak raked in $319,000 in campaign donations, according to the campaign finance report filed with the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office on Tuesday.

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens gaining momentum for Hall of Fame

Tim Raines and Jeff Bagwell appear likely to gain election into the Baseball Hall of Fame when the Baseball Writers’ Association of America voting is announced Wednesday.

Trump’s pick to head Interior vows to review Gold Butte designation

Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Interior Department, told a Senate hearing Tuesday he would review a recent controversial presidential declaration to create national monuments in Nevada and Utah.

Nevada’s unemployment rate tumbles to 9-year low

The state’s unemployment rate has hit a nine-year low. But UNLV professor and Business and Economic Research Center Director Stephen Miller believes we can do better.

 
Tupac biopic gets June 2017 release date

Lionsgate has set a June 16, 2017, release for the Tupac Shakur biopic “All Eyez on Me,” starring Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

MGM Cotai opening pushed back to second half of ‘17

MGM Cotai, MGM Resorts International’s $3.1 billion hotel-casino under construction just off Macau’s Cotai Strip, will open in the second half of 2017 instead of in the second quarter, the company disclosed Tuesday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Here’s how to watch UNLV Basketball vs. San Diego State tonight

After nearly a week off, the Runnin’ Rebels return to the court tonight to host Mountain West opponent the San Diego State Aztecs in the first of a two-game homestand this week at the Thomas & Mack.

Warehouse offers low-cost building supplies to those in need

Framing Hope Warehouse products are used for repairing and maintaining facilities. Arnold Stalk, founder of Veterans Village, has used them to renovate an old motel into state-of-the-art housing for veterans in need.

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