Midterms are rarely kind to the president’s party, and with balloting just nine months off, the storm clouds look particularly threatening for Republicans.
Editorials
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.
Judge Jessica Peterson “manifestly abused” her discretion.
Nevada lost one of its last great statesmen Thursday when former Assembly Speaker Joe Dini died at the age of 85.
Nevada governments face two very inconvenient realities about state tax policy.
Politics can never be removed from the courts, not even if judicial elections are replaced with an appointment system.
A sure sign of government tyranny: limits on dissenting speech.
On the afternoon of April 1, President Barack Obama pulled out the pom-poms and assumed the role of cheer captain at the White House Rose Garden to celebrate the great Obamacare victory. The Affordable Care Act had reached its purported goal of 7 million sign-ups, and by the March 31 deadline, no less.
Speaking of local government cuts: The Southern Nevada Health District soon will lay off 50 to 60 employees.
The city of North Las Vegas needs to find ways to save big money. Its budget deficit for the coming fiscal year is $18 million, and the government’s estimated seven-year shortfall is $152 million. City management can’t attack those numbers with scissors — it needs a chainsaw.
The federal government’s incompetence in public land management has been obvious for decades. Far from protecting natural resources, many of Washington’s practices are killing off species and harming the environment. But that doesn’t stop agencies from regulating the public’s use of public land with a heavy hand while allowing costly federal failures to continue in perpetuity.
Unions are desperate to boost declining membership. Through 2013, only 11.3 percent of wage and salary workers belonged to unions. Growing public-sector membership is the only reason the figure is that high — 35.3 percent of government employees belong to a union, while just 6.7 percent of private-sector workers are union members. Where can unions go to organize new members? Where left-leaning thought and indoctrination rule the day: college campuses.
Now we know why the Public Employees Retirement System of Nevada worked so hard for so long to keep pension data hidden from state taxpayers. A new study has determined that Nevada provides its government workers with the most generous retirement benefits in America.