When Green Valley High School announced the student production of two controversial plays last year, a number of parents instantly swarmed the decisions. “The Laramie Project” and the musical “Rent” are centered on the issues of HIV, violence, drug abuse and homosexuality. Declaring these topics too mature for high school, the protesters sent the case to court.
Charlie Mitchener, the Las Vegas business owner who was handcuffed and disarmed after presenting a concealed weapons permit along with his driver’s license to a police officer responding to a burglary call at his place of business Jan. 3, has provided me with his Jan. 19 follow-up letter to Metro.
I’m well into my 70s now. I’ve been in and out of the ranching business all my life. I’ve run a lot of horses, trapped coyotes and bobcats, cut post over a good portion of the state of Nevada. And I tell you, I have never been so disgusted.
As recent events have clearly amplified, the average American’s grasp of the content and purpose of the U.S. Constitution is woefully inadequate and too often inaccurate.
Dina Titus is the last person I would have expected to channel Dick Cheney.
Reversing a District Court decision, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the groundwater applications underpinning a multibillion-dollar plan to pipe groundwater to Las Vegas from east central Nevada may not be valid.
Last year, a Review-Journal report exposed the abuse of University Medical Center’s emergency room by 80 illegal immigrants with failing kidneys. The dialysis treatments provided to these noncitizens costs more than $2 million per month, with the bills forwarded to Clark County taxpayers. … Nevada’s congressional delegation agreed the situation demanded a response.
I was glad to see the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada taking on the inequity of Nevada’s mining tax (Jan. 16 Review-Journal). John Winthrop, the early American Puritan, once noted that “the rich and mighty should not eat up the pool.” The mining industry has been eating up Nevada, raking up gross profits while leaving the state little to show for 100 years of exploitation and environmental degradation.
State and local governments must cut more than $1.3 billion in spending to balance their books through June 2011. It’s going to be a brutal process for public employees, whose salaries and benefits consume the vast majority of operational expenses. After more than two years of slumping economic conditions and tax revenue declines, sizable layoffs and pay cuts are unavoidable.
Our last two Democratic presidents have wasted a year each by pursuing the perceived moral imperative of comprehensive health care reform aimed at universal insurance.
