Drug abuse is the root cause of the rise of homelessness. That’s according to Christopher Rufo, contributing editor to City Journal.
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Read by Three is about to become Read by Never. On Monday, a host of Democrats introduced Assembly Bill 289, which would gut the requirement that third graders who aren’t proficient in reading repeat the grade.
It’s a lot harder to attack your legislative allies than your enemies. Just ask the Nevada State Education Association.
Then-president Barack Obama took a lot of heat for once saying, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” Turns out he was just talking about Rep. Jacky Rosen.
The call by March for Our Lives to ban semi-automatic assault weapons is a conversation starter, not a defined policy proposal.
Either Democrats don’t believe their own rhetoric or they want children to die.
It was habit, not heroism, that caused Justin Pearson to grab his gun. But seconds later, that weapon enabled Pearson to stop a kidnapping taking place just outside his Las Vegas home on Oct. 5.
Here are three things to watch on day 103 of the 2017 legislative session:
Nevada legislators are considering an ingenious — or devious — solution to raise their salaries: Assembly Joint Resolution 10*.
Conversion therapy bill gets committee hearing, but first: more floor sessions in the Nevada Legislature.
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3 people killed in suspected Henderson murder-suicide identified