Ben Carson met with the Review-Journal’s editorial board last week to discuss his vision for the country. We’ve chosen to highlight four of Carson’s positions we support and two positions that leave us skeptical.
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With February’s Nevada caucuses fast approaching, the Review-Journal is publishing a 10-editorial series on policies and government reforms all candidates should be able to get behind. The fifth policy goal we’d like all presidential candidates to champion: removing marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
Presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle want to lift the lower and middle classes. But to join the middle class, you must have a good job. And an elevated minimum wage prices the unskilled out of the job market, delaying or denying young people an entrance to the workforce.
For decades, federal agencies have been been plagued by inefficiency, incompetence and even illegal activity.
At the intersection of the energy industry and environmentalism, of ranching and recreation, of economic development and preservation, is U.S. public land policy. No wonder the issue creates such sharp partisan divisions.
Less than a year from now, Americans will elect their next president. Not surprisingly, the campaign for the most important job in the world has been highly divisive.
If there were any lingering doubts about Las Vegas’ status as a hotbed of baseball, those were completely erased during a historic week that would be hard for any other city to match.
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to reduce health care costs for millions of Americans. Instead, it has increased both premiums and out-of-pocket costs to the point that Obamacare insurance is essentially worthless to families living paycheck to paycheck.
Last week, the Public Utilities Commission completed three days of hearings on net metering, which provides electricity customers who have rooftop panels with credits for excess solar power they don’t use. Within a couple of weeks, the PUC will decide how much those credits will be worth going forward.
The Nevada Legislature did everything necessary to allow ride-sharing transportation network companies to operate in the state. Now the Clark County Commission is doing all it can to discourage people from working for Uber and Lyft.