Democrats now sound like free-market aficionados.
Opinion
Clark County has a common-sense plan to spare Lee Canyon campers from outrageous fees while getting rid of county land that’s difficult to manage.
The death of a massive solar energy project planned for the Laughlin area is a timely reminder that all the political juice in Nevada can’t make green power pencil out.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and politicians are complaining that owners of hybrid and electric cars aren’t paying enough for the asphalt. Our elected officials are right, and it’s their own fault.
If you consider yourself a law-abiding citizen, think again. In the era of ever-expanding government power, the rockers of Judas Priest provide a perfect refrain for the plight of average Americans: “Breakin’ the law, breakin’ the law.”
North Las Vegas just got a lifeline from the Legislature, a bailout for fiscal woes caused by the recession, fat employee contracts and foolish capital expenditures. Now the City Council is poised to thank the state for that relief by gambling on a misguided, potentially unconstitutional housing rescue plan that exposes the city’s taxpayers to yet more risk.
Las Vegas has long been a hotbed of baseball, with flourishing youth leagues and outstanding high school programs. There’s a steady, successful junior college program at the College of Southern Nevada, brought along by coach Tim Chambers, who has now seemingly righted the ship at UNLV, which had its best season in years this spring.
What happened to a package of ethics and campaign reforms in Carson City this year would have broken new ground in an Eli Roth torture-porn screenplay. The filmmaker does unspeakably horrible things to his characters — generally involving sharp objects and power tools — but lawmakers went even further in protecting their own interests, disemboweling, amputating and snuffing out bills that would have created a more transparent and better government.
Last month, this page pointed out that when Nevada cuts back its mental health care system, we end up losing that savings — and then some — through other costs, from emergency room waits to burdens on jails.
June 4 marked the end of the line for the 2013 Legislature, as well as the end of the line for a handful of lawmakers. They’ll soon move on from their state Senate or Assembly posts because of term limits.
Can’t drive 55? Thank Barbara Vucanovich. Because of her legislative efforts, you haven’t had to crawl along major highways at that speed in quite some time.
Infrastructure was an under-the-radar issue during the 2013 Legislature, which got its biggest headlines out of lightning-rod policy issues ranging from gay marriage to illegal immigration, from coal-fired power to guns. Lawmakers should have spent more time discussing the state’s capital needs and their importance to the state’s economic development efforts.
Just when you thought federal intrusion couldn’t go much further, we learn the government knows far more about our business than we’d ever imagined.
Transparency and accountability go hand in hand. Unless, of course, the data are dishonest.
Yet another federal land management effort is doing more harm than good. Everybody put on your shocked face.
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I am a little embarrassed to admit it, but I picked a fight with a robot the other day. Okay, technically it was a staring contest, but the tension was real. It was one of those sleek, autonomous delivery units, waiting for an elevator at a local resort. It had these digital anime eyes that blinked, feigning a soul. Read more…
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Las Vegas is now part of an unfortunate club. It’s one of many cities where a viral video has been shot revealing the ruinous results of soft-on-crime policies embraced by Democrats.
CRT adherents don’t see two individuals, they see two representatives of their class. Deobra Redden is Black, so he’s oppressed. Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who’s white, is the oppressor.
As many as 26 percent of American adults — more than 1 in 4 — have some type of disability.
A new Review-Journal feature called “What Are They Hiding?” will spotlight all the bad-faith ways Nevada governments hide public records from taxpayers.
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