Mr. Biden’s budget, unveiled in March, spends at a record pace. The debt would continue to soar and trillion-dollar deficits would become the new norm.
Editorials
Nothing in the Constitution gives the homeless have a right to occupy public property at their leisure. The Supreme Court should rein in the 9th Circuit.
The cease-fire would allow the terror group to re-arm and re-configure itself to continue its quest of Israel’s destruction another day. The “prisoner” exchange is heavily lopsided in favor of the terrorists.
Rewarding the Clark County School District financially for its continued failures won’t improve education. It will only make it more expensive.
String of court losses will cost taxpayers. How deep a sinkhole will it become?
The federal bureaucracy has nearly 3 million employees. Collectively, these workers have so many overlapping responsibilities and regulatory powers that government shutdowns should be mandated every year, if only to slow the growth of the country’s $17 trillion debt.
Beyond the tragedy of breast cancer and the thousands of lives it affects and ends every year, there is hope.
Nevadans are fortunate to live in a state that has so many excellent journalists, from Carson City to Boulder City. A good number of them work for this newspaper.
If you think coming upticks in fuel taxes and water rates are alarming, then you won’t want the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to have its way with your power bill.
On Tuesday, the Clark County Commission will consider two sales tax increase proposals to boost police funding. One would boost the rate 0.15 percentage points, from 8.1 percent to 8.25 percent, and the other would increase the rate 0.075 cents.
If you’re looking for good news, don’t read about this week’s rollout of Obamacare coverage. The insurance exchanges that are central to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act go online Tuesday, and with each passing hour, more and more problems are revealed.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management wants to limit media and public access to wild horse roundups around the West, but not because the agency is seeking greater efficiency and safety, as it claims.
The Las Vegas City Council wants more spending money. Last week, the council cut off a group of people eager to pour new cash into city coffers and instead directed staff to shake down strapped constituents for more of their hard-earned dough.
Australians endearingly describe their remote continent as “Down Under.” Unfortunately, the expression also applies to their economy. Voters there hope this month’s election will lift the country’s fortunes, now that conservatives have ended six years of liberal Labor party rule. The vote holds lessons for Americans.
The assault on the public’s pocketbooks is unrelenting. Government at every level wants higher taxes, and the costs of other necessities, from energy to health care to food, keep rising as well. Taxpayers are tired of being asked to cough up more, more, more.