On the first day of the 2017 Legislature, the new Democratic leaders of Nevada’s Assembly and Senate showed they’ll pursue similar agendas in much different ways.
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The 2017 legislative session begins today, and Democrats have only the illusion of control.
Republicans are no fools. They are not about to forfeit the advantage bequeathed to them by Harry Reid’s shortsighted willfulness.
Radical Islamic terrorism is the only thing that could damage or permanently destroy Vegas tourism. And we need to be wrong only once.
It’s beyond ironic that clergymen are so terribly eager to erase a provision of the tax law that could end up hurting their churches.
Of all the phrases associated with modern politics, none may be as bitter as “elections have consequences.”
The board of Nevada’s Public Employees’ Retirement System just slapped you in the face — while also reaching into your wallet to pay their legal bills. Public employee salary information is public record. But pensions aren’t? Come on.
Think about this: Obama just gave the man who sold the Iran deal — a deal that could lead to a second Holocaust of the Jewish people — a five-year term on the Holocaust Memorial Council.
That didn’t take very long.
Some legislators think Nevada women are cheap dates.
We carried many free riders throughout the Cold War. The burden was heavy. But this was not a mindless act of charity; it was an exercise in enlightened self-interest.
If lawmakers are serious about equity in education funding, they‘ll increase school spending in Nevada’s richest neighborhoods. The highest-income neighborhoods in Clark County receive far less school funding than poorer areas.
It might be hard to conceive of yet another debate over taxes in the Nevada Legislature.
The Democrats have no clue what they are up against. Trump will out-smart them, out-hustle them, out-work them, out-maneuver them. Like the poor hapless Washington Generals, they’ve already lost and they don’t even know it.
After only 21 years, voter-approved term limits have finally succeeded in dislodging the maximum leader of the Hermit Kingdom of Henderson.