Who can mourn 2025?
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Who says there’s no plan in Carson City?
Democrats and Republicans infected with tax-hike fever in Carson City should take a look at the election results which came out of Illinois last week.
If the whispers are right and Nevada is, indeed, in a $3 billion hole, then all hands on deck — this is a crisis.
I’m very lucky. Despite what our energetic young bankers-turned-derivative-peddlers have done — are still doing, that’s the amazing part — to our economy, I still have a job, which means that every month I still sit down and pay my bills.
It’s always tempting to report that minimum-wage hikes, such as that scheduled to take effect in Nevada July 1, will “give the state’s lowest-paid workers a 12 percent” (or whatever) “raise.”
President Barack Obama has been shockingly upfront about his heavy-handed plans to govern energy production across the country from Washington, D.C. His plan is known as cap-and-trade, but it amounts to a new national energy tax that will be detrimental to consumers’ pocketbooks at the worst possible time.
As long as they’re trying to figure out ways to trim government costs by hundreds of millions of dollars to balance the recession-stung state budget, the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor listened to testimony Wednesday on a bill that would require the cutting down of more trees and the use of more energy to manufacture and transport more paper bags, while — as bonuses, mind you — imposing a new tax on Nevada shoppers and requiring us to foot the bill for more health inspectors to make sure grocery stores and other merchants stop using the “wrong kind” of plastic bag.
Assembly Bill 463, proposed by Assemblywoman Debbie Smith, D-Sparks, has received its first reading in Carson City.
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Las Vegas Personal Injury attorney Ryan Alexander has always believed that the holidays should be a time of joy, hope, and togetherness. Determined to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others, he launched his charitable initiative, “Give Hope & Help.”
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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.
Michael Ramirez
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