“This was not a subject that was on anybody’s mind until I brought it up at my announcement.”
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Isn’t America great?
Standing on the narrow strip of concrete in the middle of the street between the Trump Tower and the Fashion Show mall in the hot Las Vegas summer sun, I finally had enough.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont emerged Tuesday from his address to the Nevada AFL-CIO at the Luxor hotel-casino with a simple message for a cadre of reporters and photographers: It’s time for a change.
“The people of the state of Nevada do enact as follows: NRS 295.001(1) and NRS 295.009(3) are hereby repealed.”
With both presidential nomination contests having been scrambled by recent events — the FBI taking control of Hillary Clinton’s private email server and a raucous, roiling GOP debate — the third edition of the Racing Form is herewith rushed into print.
Metro police may finally see another sales tax increase dedicated to hiring more officers approved by the Clark County Commission. But instead of a 0.15-percentage-point increase authorized by the Nevada Legislature in 2013, or a compromise 0.075-percentage-point increase floated last year, the increase will be 0.05 percentage points.
I still remember the moment I realized Tom Collins is a real cowboy.
The latest Quinnipiac poll shows the American public rejects the president’s Iran deal by more than 2-to-1. This is astonishing. The public generally gives the president deference on major treaties. Just a few weeks ago, a majority supported the deal.
Farewell, Pat Hickey. The one-time Assembly minority leader announced last week he wasn’t going to seek re-election to his Reno seat.
If proponents of the taxes approved by the 2015 Legislature look worried these days, they have good reason.
Christianity, whose presence in the Middle East predates Islam’s by 600 years, is about to be cleansed from the Middle East. Egyptian Copts may have found some respite under Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, but after their persecution under the previous Muslim Brotherhood government, they know how precarious their existence in 90 percent Muslim Egypt remains. Elsewhere, it’s much worse. Twenty-one Copts were beheaded by the Islamic State affiliate in Libya for the crime of being Christian. In those large swaths of Syria and Iraq where the Islamic State rules, the consequences for Christians are terrible — enslavement, exile, torture, massacre, crucifixion.
There are slam dunks and there are close calls, and I’m prepared to admit this is more the latter than the former.
There’s a dearth of Democratic congressional candidates in the 3rd District.
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