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Opinion
To the editor:
Let’s stop calling the recession-driven changes in local government labor deals “concessions” and start calling them something more appropriate — like “raises.”
TUESDAY
To the editor:
In a more sane American political environment, no one, least of all the Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, could get away with accusing the other side of trying to kill old people.
Imagine you’re in the car business. You have a problem. Government mandates — aimed at “fuel efficiency” and lots of other high-sounding matters in which Congress is granted no power to meddle by the Constitution — require you to manufacture cars that are more expensive, yet lighter and thus less safe than the cars Americans already have.
Balking at a “no amendments” provision, rural representatives in the House on Wednesday narrowly defeated a bill to empower the Food and Drug Administration to set new safety standards for growing and processing food, requiring sharply increased inspections.
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, your elected representatives on the Clark County Commission and the Las Vegas City Council probably will decide on contracts with their respective firefighter unions. In all likelihood, the deliberations will be in secret. No need for you to know why your elected officials think your firefighters need your money more than you do.
Every elementary school in America has a bully. The bully regularly taunts and intimidates his classmates in order to get what he wants. Often, the bully’s teacher must display strong leadership and discipline in order to rein the bully in and teach him that the same rules apply to everyone.
It’s nothing new in the political arena. Politician ‘A’ serves in an elected position, sees an opportunity to advance to a more prestigious political position and announces a bid to seek it.
Remember the collective relief of the political and public-sector classes when the Legislature wrapped up its $6.9 billion, two-year spending plan just over two months ago? That relative comfort is history, along with any prospects of the state budget remaining balanced, for either the nearly concluded biennium or the one to come.
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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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