If you want to see inflation go and stay down, you need to care more about the national debt.
Opinion
On Tuesday, the Clark County Commission will consider two sales tax increase proposals to boost police funding. One would boost the rate 0.15 percentage points, from 8.1 percent to 8.25 percent, and the other would increase the rate 0.075 cents.
If you’re looking for good news, don’t read about this week’s rollout of Obamacare coverage. The insurance exchanges that are central to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act go online Tuesday, and with each passing hour, more and more problems are revealed.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management wants to limit media and public access to wild horse roundups around the West, but not because the agency is seeking greater efficiency and safety, as it claims.
The Las Vegas City Council wants more spending money. Last week, the council cut off a group of people eager to pour new cash into city coffers and instead directed staff to shake down strapped constituents for more of their hard-earned dough.
Australians endearingly describe their remote continent as “Down Under.” Unfortunately, the expression also applies to their economy. Voters there hope this month’s election will lift the country’s fortunes, now that conservatives have ended six years of liberal Labor party rule. The vote holds lessons for Americans.
The assault on the public’s pocketbooks is unrelenting. Government at every level wants higher taxes, and the costs of other necessities, from energy to health care to food, keep rising as well. Taxpayers are tired of being asked to cough up more, more, more.
Labor peace won’t come cheap for the Clark County School District. On Thursday, the School Board will vote on a one-year contract for teachers that provides a variety of pay raises at a net cost to the public of $27.4 million for the 2013-14 school year.
For an organization whose membership includes thousands of food service industry employees, Culinary Local 226 doesn’t seem to understand who butters its workers’ bread.
This is going to hurt, America. But you already knew that.
Exactly why a mountain in Southern Nevada came to be named after a Frenchman is a puzzler. Naming the top of that mountain after a late, great United States president shouldn’t be such a big deal.
The College of Southern Nevada’s financial aid problems are so deep, the school is incapable of fixing them on its own. Higher education officials need to start asking how, exactly, the mess got this bad in the first place.
Public school rankings came out last week, and on the surface, the report doesn’t appear to contain much good news. As reported Tuesday by the Review-Journal’s Trevon Milliard, 25 percent of Nevada’s 604 public schools were downgraded by the Nevada School Performance Framework, the second-year, state-created evaluation that replaces federal No Child Left Behind standards.
When the valley’s economy was hotter than asphalt in July, nothing captured the exuberance and insanity of the growth quite like a Bureau of Land Management auction. Thousands of vacant acres were sold to developers and individuals, often above appraised value. Homes, offices and strip malls couldn’t be built fast enough.
No city does big boxing matches better than Las Vegas (see editorial above). And no state handles the judging of those matches worse than Nevada.
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Quick quiz: What’s one of the safest beverages you can drink in Southern Nevada? If your answer is “tap water,” you’re right! Southern Nevada’s municipal water supply meets or surpasses all State of Nevada and Federal Safe Drinking Water Act standards. In fact, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) tests your water 300,000 times a […]
Las Vegas is now part of an unfortunate club. It’s one of many cities where a viral video has been shot revealing the ruinous results of soft-on-crime policies embraced by Democrats.
CRT adherents don’t see two individuals, they see two representatives of their class. Deobra Redden is Black, so he’s oppressed. Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who’s white, is the oppressor.
As many as 26 percent of American adults — more than 1 in 4 — have some type of disability.
A new Review-Journal feature called “What Are They Hiding?” will spotlight all the bad-faith ways Nevada governments hide public records from taxpayers.
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