Democrats now sound like free-market aficionados.
Editorials
Midterms are rarely kind to the president’s party, and with balloting just nine months off, the storm clouds look particularly threatening for Republicans.
Nevada and other states now have increased incentive to root out food stamp fraud. That’s good news for taxpayers.
Thanks to Gov. Joe Lombardo and President Donald Trump, Nevada parents will soon have new educational options.
It’s much easier to romanticize Hamas when you ignore their brutality. That wasn’t an option for Yair Horn.
The valley’s continual cycle of sports venue proposals ensures that when one project dies, another emerges to take its place. So it is with a dramatic change to a plan to bring a major league team to downtown Las Vegas.
With the midterm elections less than six months away and Democrats rightly feeling the heat on multiple fronts, it’s hardly a surprise that their most fearless leaders, President Barack Obama and Sen. Harry Reid, once again are raising the temperature on climate change rhetoric. The strategy is obvious: If you can’t win the arguments that Americans actually care about, then throw out as many other distractions as possible to deflect attention from those arguments.
Some good news for Nevada: Rancher Cliven Bundy’s views on race in America appear to have finally cycled through the national media. The bad news: Nevada’s failing Obamacare exchange is creating a new round of negative national press.
Personal finance experts don’t agree on everything, but every last one of them will provide this bit of advice: the smallest expenses matter.
The federal justice system’s contempt for transparency knows no bounds. A culture that has long rejected openness and accountability to taxpayers is taking secrecy to an outrageous new level in the prosecution of defendants in the valley’s homeowner association fraud case.
The Budget Control Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2011 to end a debt ceiling standoff, brought “sequester” into the American vocabulary by guaranteeing billions of dollars in automatic federal budget cuts if a congressional supercommittee couldn’t reach a bipartisan deal on spending reductions. The idea was to force Democrats and Republicans to strike a compromise by imposing an unimaginably horrific, Draconian alternative if they failed.
In sports, there is always one ultimate arbiter: the scoreboard. When the clock hits zero or the last out is recorded, nothing else matters.
The country’s high schools are in an achievement holding pattern. The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, an achievement test administered to high school seniors every four years by the federal government, contained no good news for American students and taxpayers.
What’s important enough to bring Democratic Sen. Harry Reid and Republican Sen. Dean Heller together? Interstate 11.
The Clark County School District talks tough when it comes to bullying but, in at least two cases, did little to nothing to back up that bluster.