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If the state of Nevada and particularly the Las Vegas Valley hope to move past dismal unemployment numbers, more must be done to provide incentives to actually work. This issue was rightly pointed out in a study from the Cato Institute on welfare benefits, as reported Friday by the Review-Journal’s Sean Whaley. The study provided a state-by-state value of welfare benefits, in an effort to show that those rates can often act as a disincentive to going back to work.
It’s the dead of summer. Congress is adjourned. Egypt burns. ObamaCare looms. Government spooks read our email.
In an Aug. 17 editorial (“Death Valley National Park needs quicker fix for roads”), the Review-Journal smartly points out that a change is needed.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It’s Harry Reid’s perpetual state of mind.
To say the idea percolating in North Las Vegas to seize mortgages in danger of foreclosure using the city’s power of eminent domain is controversial would be vastly understating the case.
As a new school year starts around the country, December’s atrocity at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., still haunts us. Adam Lanza took the lives of 20 children and six adults, mowing down innocents in a hail of gunfire. The attack was as emotionally devastating as any news event in recent memory.
By now, students and parents all around Southern Nevada have completed one of the back-to-school season’s most recognizable traditions: shopping for school supplies. Equipped with lists provided by their local schools and teachers, students will fill their carts with pens, folders, notebooks and aspirations for a successful school year.
The Review-Journal’s Aug. 18 editorial headlined “Nuclear waste politics” urged Nevadans to have or participate in a conversation on Yucca Mountain. What conversation, with whom, about what? The Department of Energy filed a license application withdrawal to end the project three years ago. The DOE has been clear — the site is unworkable and not an option for a nuclear waste disposal facility.