It’s a lot easier to waste someone else’s money.
Opinion
Higher taxes, adjustments in retirement rules for state workers, a governor with a veto pen. These are just some of the issues lawmakers face as they try to wrap up the 2009 session. If you have any thoughts on those or other matters and would like to share them with your representatives in Carson City,here’s a contact list for all the Southern Nevada legislators.
Early on the morning of May 7, Calvin Darling pulled his jacked-up Silverado pickup onto Flamingo Road at Ravenwood Drive, near Tenaya Way. Officer James Manor, approaching in a Metro police cruiser in answer to a 911 call, couldn’t avoid Mr. Darling’s truck.
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State lawmakers haven’t cornered the market on complaining. This week, in city council chambers across Clark County, municipal elected officials lamented their fiscal fortunes and learned that they’ll have to make lots of budget cuts to get by in the years ahead.
As a boy, Rod Poteete’s dream was to be a professional baseball player, pitching on a national stage against the world’s best hitters. Unlike most other boys with the same dream, Poteete possessed the dedication and physical ability to make his come true.
On Tuesday, California voters soundly rejected five Rube Goldberg ballot measures designed to keep the state solvent through the rest of the year.
The Tuesday headline was clear: “Obama’s new rules will transform U.S. auto fleet.”
The Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress is moving to restore a Bush administration policy that allowed Americans the same right to carry self-defense weapons in the national parks as in any other part of a state.
A last-minute amendment adopted in Carson City last week by the Senate Government Affairs Committee would allow the union that represents Las Vegas police to negotiate wage and benefit contracts directly with the Clark County sheriff, shutting out Clark County commissioners, Las Vegas City Council members and their representatives.
Legislative Republicans have a hill to die for. Only it’s more like an anthill — and it’s still too steep for majority Democrats.
A public opinion poll conducted last week for the Review-Journal provided a detailed snapshot of the electorate’s views on most of the tax increases under consideration in Carson City. One indisputable conclusion can be drawn from the survey: Voters are worried about their livelihoods and don’t want to see their recession-ravaged employers hit with job-killing levies.
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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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