An immediate need for strategies that reduce tensions, mitigate potential violence.
Editorials
The Epstein files strike again.
The best solution for the West’s water woes is more water. Perhaps California regulators are finally realizing this.
It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to deduce why so many power plants have shut down recently.
Trump signs off on bill.
Nevada’s new driver authorization cards are a reminder to the state’s elected officials that, sometimes, they should be careful what they wish for. The unqualified initial success of the cards validates one set of policy positions while completely disproving another.
Greg Maddux pitched his final major league game in 2008. From there, all that was left to do was wait the requisite five years for his career-capping honor. Only a downed phone line would have kept the Las Vegan from learning Wednesday morning that, in his first year of eligibility, he was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
To have any chance of keeping their power and their jobs beyond 2014, Washington’s Democrats have to distract the voting public from the party’s Obamacare debacle. Part one of that plan: going all-in for an increase in the federal minimum wage, from $7.25 per hour to $10.10.
North Las Vegas is the Lindsay Lohan of local government. It’s a hot mess in need of rehab, detox and life coaching.
In tracking the train wreck of Obamacare, some anecdotes sound too far-fetched to be true. Take Richard Pollock’s eye-opening article for the Washington Examiner on Tuesday. Mr. Pollock got health policy experts and independent insurance agents affiliated with the National Association of Health Underwriters to compare Wal-Mart’s health insurance plans with those offered via Obamacare exchanges.
The Clark County School District is managing crowded schools about as well as it can without asking for more tax money. That will change next month.
For three months, the Affordable Care Act has been all about website and enrollment glitches, with the former often the cause of the latter. Make no mistake, these problems haven’t gone away just because the calendar turned to Jan. 1, 2014 — when Obamacare officially became the so-called law of the land. But the new year was supposed to bring a new phase of the law: people actually having health insurance.
The first roadside campaign signs that went up last month were a dead giveaway, but the incumbent judges and attorneys filing for judicial positions makes it official: It’s an election year.
David Silvaggio is a case study in the overreach of the war on drugs and the long overdue common sense that, ever so slowly, finally is changing the course of this costly, counterproductive conflict.