Southern Nevada’s military honor guards can be seen at a variety of events around town. But their most somber — and, members say, most fulfilling — duty lies in offering final goodbyes to veterans.
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The U.S. House voted last week for a two-month extension in federal highway funding, averting an interruption of state projects while buying more time to come up with a better solution to federal road woes.
Carson City faces quite a conundrum: state budgets are closed, and so is the window for considering anything other than gross receipts and business taxes to fund them.
It’s easy — oh, so very easy — to poke fun at Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas.
Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti-Islamic State coalition so grandly proclaimed by the Obama administration is nowhere to be seen.
The state shouldn’t need laws that mandate common sense. But the ridiculous overreach of “zero tolerance” school rules that fail to distinguish between toy weapons and real ones, between make believe and real threats, between first graders and teenagers, has forced the Nevada Legislature to bypass school boards in pursuit of a badly needed statewide disciplinary policy.
State lawmakers are not fans of the initiative petition process. That’s why they always try to make it harder for citizens to put referendums and constitutional amendments before their fellow voters.
Chris Weidman retained the middleweight belt with a first-round stoppage of Vitor Belfort at UFC 187 on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden, and Daniel Cormier won the light heavyweight title that was stripped from Jon Jones last month with a third-round submission over Anthony Johnson.