The case for booting Steven Brooks from the Assembly was air-tight and iron-clad more than a month ago. Yet state lawmakers, in trying to demonstrate due diligence and avoid a rush to judgment, did nearly everything possible to diminish the credibility of the unprecedented expulsion.
Employers who waste money don’t survive, so they become pretty good at determining the prevailing wage for any given job.
The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the nation’s broadest school voucher program, a ruling supporters say could set a national precedent and encourage other states to expand such programs.
By a disturbingly slim 5-4 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday police cannot bring a drug-sniffing police dog onto a suspect’s property to look for evidence without first getting a search warrant.
The fear of being fired is a powerful motivator in the private sector. Inadequate performance puts your job in jeopardy. But if you screw up badly — and especially if you treat customers terribly — you’ll be canned in no time.
Governments have all kinds of permits — for construction, business occupancy, special events, parking and other activities. They are issued with a clear dictate: If you don’t get the permit, you can’t lawfully engage in the activity. Period.
Pointing to polling that shows Nevadans now support ending the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage, Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, has started the cumbersome process of repealing Nevada’s so-called “Protection of Marriage” amendment.
Nevada’s housing market has been mangled by multiple government interventions. Politicians simply refuse to leave the resulting distortions in prices and inventory alone to correct themselves, leading to another round of interventions, and on and on.
Envisioning cars that can go “coast to coast without using a drop of oil,” President Barack Obama last week urged Congress to authorize an additional $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into weaning automobiles off gasoline. “The only way to break this cycle of spiking gas prices — the only way to break that cycle for good — is to shift our cars entirely, our cars and trucks, off oil,” the president said.
Nevada is almost 150 years old, and parts of its government structure are antiquated and in need of reform. The Legislature’s 120-day biennial sessions are not among them.
