If it’s safe enough to have 1,000 people at a convention, it’s safe enough to put kids in schools.
Victor Joecks
Victor Joecks’ column appears in the Opinion section each Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Coronavirus restrictions are essential to stopping the spread, right up until they inconvenience powerful Democrats.
If you don’t trust Donald Trump to respond to the coronavirus outbreak, you shouldn’t favor a system that gives a future president like him power over your health care.
Superintendent Jesus Jara has set 29 goals related to student achievement. Last year, the Clark County School District met one of them.
If President Donald Trump had serious tyrannical ambitions, he’d be supporting the gun control plans proposed by Democrat presidential candidates.
Mario Lopez’s comments contained nothing that should be even slightly controversial for anyone who’s ever met a three year old.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority wants to take billions of gallons of water that doesn’t exist from Eastern Nevada via a pipeline that would cost ratepayers $15 billion. Doing so would devastate the wildlife and people who live there. That’s according to Kyle Roerink, executive director of the Great Basin Water Network, which opposes the pipeline.
Many of Nevada’s most prominent Democrats know border walls work. Just look at where they live.
This election has high policy stakes for Republicans, but are they high enough to motivate Republican voters? That’s the question Tuesday’s election will turn on.
Nevada needs to increase the number of psychiatric ERs and the penalty for some serious crimes, according to Republican attorney general candidate Wes Duncan.
Records, including police body camera footage, from the October 1 tragedy should be released immediately. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department needs to be more transparent and more gun control isn’t needed to increase security on the Strip. That’s according to sheriff candidate Tim Bedwell.
Steve Sisolak couldn’t scare off Chris Giunchigliani, and now she has Sisolak running scared. They’re both seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. You can see this in his shifting policy positions and recent TV ads — a six-figure buy almost three months before the primary.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt may be a strong conservative, but he’s positioning himself as a defender of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s moderate policies.
President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was a political home run — in part because of what he didn’t say. There wasn’t a single word about reforming the politically sacrosanct Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. While that undoubtedly boosted the popularity of his speech, he was ignoring the greatest threat to America’s fiscal health.
Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks and White House Correspondent Debra Saunders discuss several tweets from President Trump, his relationship with Senator Dean Heller and what changes are being made to DACA.