Because it has been 39 years since Rick Monday saved the flag and handed it to a Dodgers relief pitcher named Doug Rau, there wasn’t much hubbub about it on Saturday morning. There was no “ESPN Films: 30 for 30” piece. It’ll probably be another 11 years before that happens.
At the gathering he jokingly called “a night when Washington celebrates itself,” President Barack Obama took light-hearted aim on Saturday at a range of political friends and foes, including the people running to succeed him.
Clark County commissioners were in rare form Tuesday, expressing shock — Shock! — and outrage — Outrage! — over abuses carried out by court-appointed guardians. Last week, the Review-Journal reported the miserable oversight failures of the system that’s supposed to protect the estates of thousands of elderly and mentally incapacitated residents, and in their first meeting since those reports, commissioners were eager to blame anyone but themselves.
One simple explanation for lawmakers’ lack of concern about the negative effects of minimum wage increases: The people most harmed by such wage hikes can’t vote.
This past week was National Crime Victims Week. It was the perfect time to put partisan politics aside and come together as Nevadans, with the important goal of ensuring crime victims have a voice in justice and more importantly, the equal rights and constitutional protections they deserve.
In December, President Barack Obama said that he wished to see Iran ultimately become a “very successful regional power.”
No, the tax increase sought by Gov. Brian Sandoval to fund new education spending isn’t law yet. But the celebration surrounding Tuesday’s Senate passage of a tiered, revenue-based state business license fee sure made it look like a done deal.
