Trump signs off on bill.
Editorials
Will a few minutes extra sleep make a difference?
Nevada has spent only three-quarters of its allocation.
United States can get what it needs without military force.
Today we celebrate a great man.
We have a front-runner for Best Protest Ever. About 50 people braved the August afternoon heat Saturday to shame the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the city of Las Vegas for the overreaching, overcharging, over-the-top prosecution of four people who used sidewalk chalk to criticize police shootings.
Restaurant operators fear that the Affordable Care Act — ObamaCare — will be a difficult pill to swallow, and with good reason. It suffers from numerous defects that will adversely affect the millions of people that restaurants employ across the nation — including the 192,000 such employees in Nevada.
Just because something might seem fair upon initial review doesn’t necessarily make it so. That’s certainly the case with the vehicle miles traveled tax.
It’s impossible to have a rational conversation about nuclear waste in Nevada. In fact, it’s impossible to have any kind of conversation about nuclear waste in Nevada.
The problem with special-interest politics is, eventually, special interests collide. Take Clark County’s horse roping ordinance. The animal welfare crowd, as emotional, invested and unrelenting as any political group you’ll find, got it approved.
Placing a loved one into a nursing home is an unbearably difficult decision for family members. That decision just got harder for Nevadans, in the wake of Tuesday’s report by the Review-Journal’s Paul Harasim and Yesenia Amaro: The state’s facilities rank among the worst in the nation overall (43rd), receiving a grade of F in a study conducted by Families for Better Care, a nationwide nursing home resident advocacy group.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder finally has made headlines for a good reason: announcing money-saving, life-saving drug enforcement reforms the Obama administration should have imposed years ago.
If the recession that supposedly ended four years ago has proved anything, it’s that government still has no shortage of money to waste.
After congressional business wrapped up Aug. 2, senators and representatives scattered far and wide for a five-week recess. In most cases, that scattering sent members of Congress either back home or on vacation.
The president of the United States loves to dance around the English language to make everybody feel better — even this country’s enemies. With the military trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan underway, it’s become much more evident that such sashaying comes at a real cost to those who have lost their lives or been injured at the hands of terrorism.