Jealousy produces terrible public policy.
Opinion
To the editor:
Still think government is starving and stripped down because of revenue shortfalls? Still think this country’s politicians have cut public programs to the marrow and directed precious tax dollars only to “essential services”?
To the editor:
A Mason-Dixon poll commissioned by the Review-Journal and released today shows strong support among Clark County voters for the proposed pipeline to bring groundwater from East Central Nevada. Southern Nevada voters — who would foot most of the cost — favor the pipeline 52-29, with 19 percent undecided.
Some political demonstrations are so transparently self-serving, so disingenuous on their face, it’s astonishing they’re carried out in the first place.
Anyone who thinks illegal immigration is an insignificant wedge issue in this country’s already-divisive debate over health care reform need only look at Page 18A of Sunday’s Review-Journal. In a picture worth significantly more than a thousand words, three uninsured illegals lie in beds at University Medical Center, receiving emergency dialysis at a cost of between $11,000 and $18,000 apiece.
The spitball fight between Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons and Democratic lawmakers has taken an interesting turn.
A former Army doctor who served in Iraq, Dr. Jason Newsom returned home to Panama City, Fla., a few years ago and took a $140,000-a-year job running the Bay County Health Department.
Nevadans who value their constitutional rights, worry about the erosion of individual liberties and believe the Bill of Rights actually means what it says will have to battle future government intrusions without one of their greatest advocates. Gary Peck, the tireless, highly principled executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, has resigned to start a new chapter in his life.
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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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