Many on the left accuse greedy capitalists at major outlets of exaggerating the problem to cover up mismanagement.
Opinion
Beyond the tragedy of breast cancer and the thousands of lives it affects and ends every year, there is hope.
Letters from John Hiatt, Micki Jordan, and Margaret Davey
During Thursday’s meeting of the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee at UNLV, tourism leaders testified that a new stadium near the Strip could help Las Vegas attract at least 20 new annual special events and the tourists who’d attend them.
The selection of UNLV as host site for next fall’s final presidential debate is a mighty big deal for reasons that go well beyond exposure.
Clark County voters will face one tax-related question on the November 2016 ballot: inflationary increases to the fuel tax. But might they see another question related to transit funding?
New York Times columnist Timothy Egan didn’t grow up rich. But he had one hell of a summer home.
Letters from Jack Corrick, Virgil L. Swartwood, and Joseph Merlino
As co-chairs of Nevadans for Background Checks, we are leading a statewide, bipartisan coalition working to pass an initiative that requires background checks on all gun sales in our state.
The collapsing Teachers Health Trust, the union-mismanaged health insurance for Clark County School District educators and their dependents, finally is about to die.
Letters from Jerry Price, Larry Badgley, Carol Przybycien and Judith Lachance.
Anyone paying attention to politics over the past few years could tell that House Speaker John Boehner had to spend most of his time and energy barely keeping the peace in his party.
As a parent of five children, including four in the Clark County School District, I have attended several meetings with the School Board over the past 13 months. I have listened to young people from the Nevada Teen Health Alliance, who are concerned that our current sex education curriculum is inadequate. Planned Parenthood has been represented at these meetings, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union.
Rooftop solar and seniors
On Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the city’s 50 aldermen that if they didn’t pass the largest property tax increase in Chicago’s recent history, the city “would become unlivable.” Mr. Emanuel wants to increase property taxes by a record $588 million over the next four years to bolster police and fire pensions. He’s also seeking other new fees and tax increases to offset Chicago’s annual budget deficit. Those increases include a new garbage-hauling fee, new taxes on electronic cigarettes and ride sharing, and increases on building permit and taxi fees.
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.