Nevada and Delaware have entered an online poker compact that is at once historic and absurd. It’s historic in that, one day soon, it will allow card players to lawfully gamble across state lines using the Internet. But it’s absurd that such an arrangement is necessary to comply with a federal ban on Web gaming.
It turns out, city of North Las Vegas leaders haven’t scoured every couch and soda machine for loose change. It turns out, the broke municipality hasn’t drained every publicly funded account. But City Council members and city management might have to if they’re going to provide pay raises to their public safety unions.
Suddenly, the “preservation of religious freedom” is all the rage.
In the president’s State of the Union address last month, he made it clear that the nation with the greatest investment in innovation will lead the global economy. He cautioned that it is “an edge America cannot surrender.”
More and more, the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange looks like a sinking ship. So it should have come as no surprise that its captain jumped into a lifeboat last week. As reported by the Review-Journal’s Jennifer Robison, Jon Hager, executive director of the exchange, announced he would resign from the agency effective March 14.
Seldom do real-life dramas so perfectly write themselves for the screen. If the recent struggle and triumph of Moapa’s modest Roos-N-More zoo isn’t a movie on The Disney Channel, Nickelodeon or Lifetime by the end of the year, the writers and producers who constantly prowl Las Vegas for material have no heart.
It must be that nobody has ever called Mark Hutchison a liberal before.
