It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to deduce why so many power plants have shut down recently.
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On the campaign trail last year, Barack Obama vowed, if elected, to respect state laws on medical marijuana and call off the drug warriors in their quest to prosecute ailing patients who have a doctor’s prescription to use the substance.
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When officials in the Obama administration said they would reform a Bush administration program under which members of local police departments were allowed to get some specialized training and then help bust illegal immigrants, they assured critics it was just “fine-tuning”
Clark County commissioners voted last week to stop picking up and caring for unwanted pet Mojave Desert tortoises as of the end of the year.
The Nevada Youth Legislature — high school students appointed by state senators to represent the 21 Senate districts in Nevada — wants to see the top age for compulsory school attendance in the state reduced from 18 to 16.
In a Sunday column some months back, I complained about Nevada’s dreadful state song, “Home Means Nevada.”
The wisest remark at Wednesday’s local government summit came from former assemblywoman and current Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani.
If Harry Reid decides to use the Senate’s “reconciliation” process to ram health care legislation through his chamber and crush a filibuster, then he’ll have to reconcile something else: his astounding hypocrisy.
Oh, to be so young, so righteous, so willing to tell everyone else how to behave, so quick to high dudgeon.
These are interesting times for Nevada’s congressional delegation. So interesting that it may include a number of new faces within the next three years.
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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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