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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.
Remember that incendiary 2011 advertisement in which a Paul Ryan lookalike dumped a sweet elderly woman from her wheelchair off a cliff? Try to envision a similar hit piece in which President Barack Obama serves eviction notices to senior citizens and threatens them with arrest if they don’t pack their stuff and leave their homes.
The response to the unimaginable and senseless shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has unfortunately gone off the rails. In the name of student safety, adults are teaching kids the wrong lessons.
Talk about bad timing. Southern Nevada leaders have worked for years to establish fossil-rich Tule Springs as a national monument. Finally, on Thursday, they appeared before a House subcommittee in support of a bipartisan bill to award the much-deserved designation.
During the valley’s long economic boom, hotel-casino grand openings were semi-annual occasions. You could plan the next big party based on the presence of construction cranes.
National parks and monuments from coast to coast have been shuttered since Tuesday, but not because of the federal government shutdown. No, most of these tourist attractions and community recreation spots were blocked off strictly for show.
A sales tax increase to boost police funding in Clark County is on hold again, thanks to one of the strangest Clark County Commission votes in recent memory. The right result was achieved Tuesday afternoon for all the wrong reasons.
Tuesday’s rollout of Obamacare exchanges was an information-technology disaster. Glitches ruled the day at the federal government’s HealthCare.gov website and various state exchanges, in many cases denying users the ability to even see what insurance plans are available.
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.