No matter where you line up on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports — whether you feel it should be allowed, whether you think it’s the death knell for honest competition, or whether you’re somewhere in between — there’s still room for agreement on one thing: Most people can handle the truth.
As much as the Obama administration would like to move past the IRS scandal, the ongoing work of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is making it impossible for the president to declare the story old news.
The free market dictates most of the business successes and failures we encounter on a daily basis. If you can find a niche, raise the capital and answer demand, you might succeed. If you can’t, you’ll fail.
The signs are everywhere across the West: Dry rangelands, fast-moving wildfires, endangered wildlife.
The city of Detroit sought bankruptcy protection last week, which was somewhat surprising. Hadn’t Detroit declared bankruptcy already?
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie is in quite a spot these days. He’s the elected leader of the state’s largest police force, directly accountable to voters for the performance of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Conventions are critically important to the Las Vegas economy, and not just the huge expos that take over multiple venues in the resort corridor. The myriad small conferences that come to every hotel every day support many thousands of jobs as well.
The single greatest accomplishment of all the firefighters, emergency responders and volunteers who battled this month’s Carpenter 1 Fire and helped displaced Mount Charleston residents? One of the worst natural disasters in Clark County history could have been much, much worse.
Government always seems to think it best knows how to run the lives of its citizens, but the marketplace consistently comes up with more efficient, less expensive responses to our needs than our elected and appointed officials. So it’s no surprise that in the realm of health care, against the backdrop of the junkyard blaze that is ObamaCare, some free-market thinking has proved extremely successful.
A lot of locals were never high on the proposed XpressWest high-speed rail project because the train initially would travel no farther than Victorville, Calif. The refrain from letters to the editor and talk radio shows: “Who in Las Vegas wants to take a train to Victorville, then have to rent a car to get to Los Angeles or San Diego?”
