Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and her Los Angeles counterpart recently met to discuss an array of mutual topics, including a desire to widen the two-lane stretch of Interstate 15 between Barstow and Primm.
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It’s easy to make heart-wrenching ads when you’re not bound by pesky things like the truth. Keep that in mind when you see television commercials shrieking that people will die if Sen. Dean Heller votes for Republicans’ Obamacare replacement. Opposing groups are spending big to deceive Nevadans about the impact of that bill.
Homelessness is an issue that’s prevalent throughout the Las Vegas Valley but often swept under the rug, unless someone’s been killed.
Forget health care or taxes. The current public-policy discussion with the farthest-reaching societal implications is on transgender issues.
Three local architectural firms competing to develop a master plan for the Las Vegas Academy of Arts received mixed messages recently.
Raise the minimum wage, reduce worker pay. That’s not what the left promised, but that’s what’s happening in Seattle, which is phasing in a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
Motorists are paying a little more at the pump, even though the cost of crude oil remains below $50 per barrel — just one of several factors that go into calculating gasoline prices.
Nevada Republicans up and down the ballot believe they’ve found a winning issue — prohibiting sanctuary cities — and they’re preparing to make it a key issue in the 2018 campaign.
Almost any way you measure it, the state ranks among the worst in the U.S. in terms of delivering a quality education. And underlying problems like poverty and a lack of English proficiency make it hard to move the needle.
If your boss ‘cut’ your salary like Senate Republicans want to ‘cut’ Medicaid, you’d be getting a hefty pay increase.
One of Nevada’s leading law firms not only enabled a criminal conspiracy, it also participated in it, according to District Judge Mark Denton.
An arrest report makes it seem like Clark County prosecutors have an open-and-shut case against Las Vegas police officer Kenneth Lopera. They don’t.
A select few taxi drivers may be chosen to pick-up passengers at Nellis Air Force Base after undergoing rigorous criminal background checks by the military.
“Drowning doesn’t look like anything. It’s silent,” Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield told me this week. “When someone drowns, they’re taking in water. There’s no screaming.”
The power of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s veto pen now extends to Washington, D.C.