Editorials

Part of the city’s aborted soccer stadium plan will go forward after all. And it makes less sense than the deal in its entirety.

Early voting started Saturday for the April 7 municipal election primary. You’ve probably seen the campaign signs. You might have seen a few mailers and TV ads. Or maybe you’ve ignored them.

The IRS is determined to make the casino business as burdensome as possible. It’s not enough that claiming gambling losses on individual tax returns invites an audit. And it’s not enough that IRS agents have put increasing pressure on casinos to report “suspicious activity” by customers. What qualifies as “suspicious activity”? Criticism of the IRS, of course.

The assault on open government never stops — not even during Sunshine Week.

Police have the power to seal off crime scenes or areas that require investigation, but they can’t stop people from filming them in public places where no one — not even officers — has any expectation of privacy.

Before signing the Freedom of Information Act into law in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson made it clear to those closest to him that he strongly disliked the legislation. According to Bill Moyers, Mr. Johnson’s press secretary at the time, the president “hated the thought of journalists rummaging in government closets.” By the time Mr. Johnson actually signed the legislation, however, even the president had to publicly concede FOIA’s importance “in an open society in which the people’s right to know is cherished and guarded.”

The most important figure of the 2015 Legislature will present the most important bill of the session today.

The more a government seeks refuge in secrecy, the less credibility it has with the people it serves. The longer a government refuses to answer basic questions about public business, the more suspicious taxpayers become.

Nevada already has a voter disengagement problem. Assembly Bill 302 would make it worse.

Everybody pull out your Macaulay Culkin shocked-face masks. Hillary Clinton, another relic of the 1990s, engaged in secretive and possibly illegal communications at the highest levels of government. During her four-year stint as secretary of state in the Obama administration, Mrs. Clinton not only used her private account for all email communications, but she did so on a private server located in her New York home. Talk about covering your tracks.