Jealousy produces terrible public policy.
Opinion
To the editor:
Nevada taxable sales fell 20.5 percent in June, marking the eighth straight month of double-digit declines, the Department of Taxation reported Friday.
Green Valley Lock and Safe is based in Henderson, but serves customers throughout the Valley. Owner Jeff Schonzeit says that means he needs at least four business licenses: one each for Henderson, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Clark County.
To the editor:
Imagine you run a major ad agency and the account for McDonald’s is suddenly on the table.
My little southern state of Arkansas is politically reflective of the nation only in an exaggerated and negative way.
The most revealing moment in Edward “Ted” Kennedy’s political life came Nov. 4, 1979, just three days before he would officially launch his challenge to a sitting president of his own party, Jimmy Carter. In a televised interview, CBS News correspondent Roger Mudd asked the already stout Massachusetts senator a “giveaway” question, a question about as tough as a quiz show host trying to help break the ice with a nervous contestant by asking, “What color is grass?”
Sometimes the irresistible force of the press slams into an immovable object — public employee job security.
On Aug. 20, Kenny MacAskill, cabinet secretary for justice, announced the nation of Scotland’s release on humanitarian grounds of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. To date, Megrahi is the sole person convicted of a dire act of terrorism — the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of a commercial airplane which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Jones ordered the County Commission to reconsider bids for a Las Vegas Beltway project — and then Commissioners Tom Collins and Steve Sisolak said they won’t participate.
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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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