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Victor Joecks’ column appears in the Opinion section each Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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The Nevada Legislative Session is over, and the results are mixed for Nevada students, according to Tom Greene, Senior regional legislative director, Excel in Ed in Action.
Many students using Opportunity Scholarships will lose their funding within the next two years unless the Legislature acts, according to Don Soifer.
The Nevada Legislature could pass a controversial gun control measure without even holding a public hearing.
The language in the bill banning bump stocks is still too vague. Red flag laws are a violation of due process. That’s according to Don Turner, president of the Nevada Firearms Coalition.
The long-awaited bill creating a new education funding formula is here. Many key details, however, are yet to be determined.
The Las Vegas City Council erred by preventing development at the Badlands Golf Course, according to Victoria Seaman, Ward 2 candidate for the council.
The Clark County Education Association is so upset about education funding that it’s asking teachers to approve a strike — next August. Yes, that strategy is as foolhardy as it sounds.
The Las Vegas City Council should wait for a court decision before deciding whether or not to allow development of the Badlands Golf Course.
A decision to allow development on the former Badlands Golf Course could put other neighborhoods at risk.
Over the last two years, President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed had been foreshadowing many of the findings of the just-released Mueller report. That’s both a good and bad thing for the president.
Eliminating the subminimum wage will end training and work opportunities for some members of the disabled community. Instead of doing something productive, they would be stuck in adult day care. That’s according to Tracy May-Brown, Opportunity Village’s director of advocacy, board and government relations.
Criticizing someone’s political views shouldn’t be conflated with threatening their life. When it comes to Rep. Ilhan Omar, that somehow has become a debatable contention.
A constitutional restriction on tax increases could end up saving Opportunity Scholarships.
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.
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