Trump signs off on bill.
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The Nevada state employees Web site reports (at http://nvemployees.wordpress.com/our-foes/) “There are many foes of state employees mostly from some elements of the press, Chambers of Commerce and the Casino industry in particular. Our main enemy is Governor Jim Gibbons who belives (sic) he can run a government based on a slogan of ‘No new taxes.’ “
It’s all about passing health care reform without giving Republicans any more easy openings for demagoguery, which, rest assured, they’ll take.
Former U.S. District Judge Brian Sandoval declared himself a Republican candidate for governor last week and immediately announced that while raising taxes “right now is not the answer,” he wasn’t going to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge because it would “tie his hands.”
Online schooling, once thought of as new-wave and experimental, is now an accredited and widely accepted education option for students across the nation. Contrary to the old conventional wisdom, online schools are now recognized as offering challenging classes, advanced academic opportunities and dynamic social interactions — both in and out of the classroom — for a rapidly growing number of students.
Dozens of times a week now, we receive e-mailed letters very similar to the following, which arrived at the newspaper Wednesday, signed by one Mary White on Russell Road, Las Vegas:
Less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court hinted it may come down on the side of free speech in a closely watched campaign finance reform case, a federal appeals court has done precisely that.
There’s delicious irony in the downfall of the taxpayer parasite known as ACORN. After years of intimidating politicians and businesses and nurturing widespread voter registration fraud, the “community organizers” were not done in by a law enforcement action or accounting scandal. They were blown up by an amateur hidden-camera sting that was so over the top their Democratic sugar daddies in Washington couldn’t ignore the corruption anymore.
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday offered specific legislation under which the federal government would take over the health care industry.
Barack Obama’s November victory at the ballot box was heralded as a transcendent moment in American history: A nation with a legacy of slavery had elected its first black president.
With nothing but budget deficits as far as the eyes can see, some members of the House apparently figure a few million dollars more won’t matter.
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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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