Nevada doesn’t have any statewide federal races on the ballot next year. Your reprieve from campaign commercials, however, won’t last long.
Opinion
To the editor:
You don’t need a Gallup or Rasmussen poll to know that regular people on the street — you, your family and your neighbors — are disgusted with politics today. The treatment of Gov. Sarah Palin is Exhibit A to illustrate that point.
They are important sideshows in an otherwise circus-filled election cycle.
Which do you feel more strongly: that Barack Obama scares you or that the Republicans disgust you with the unholy mess they’ve made?
Back in 2001, the Nevada Legislature authorized Nevada casinos to create exclusive private gaming rooms, or “salons,” to cater to the privacy desires of high-rollers, known in the trade as “whales.”
When the state’s economy needs a shot in the arm, Nevadans can always count on California to ride to the rescue. The Golden State’s Marxist lawmakers have put ever-increasing tax and regulatory burdens on industry, chasing scores of employers to the more business-friendly confines of Nevada. But come Nov. 4, it’s California’s voters who might deliver the coup de grace to their ranching industry — and help diversify Nevada’s economy in the process.
Would the IRS encourage people of undetermined backgrounds to stand outside shopping malls and grocery stores and offer to mail residents’ completed tax returns just weeks before the filing deadline? Would the DMV want these same people to set up camp in front of libraries and post offices and hand out change-of-address forms, then offer to submit them to the state, as required by law?
Should you be punished for paying your own way and deciding not to participate in a government program?
It’s going to take a lot more than an extended economic slump to sully Nevada’s long-term prospects. State Demographer Jeff Hardcastle issued his population projections for the next two decades, and the forecast calls for growth that will continue to outpace the country’s.
ACORN’s sophomoric attempts at voter registration fraud have been festering in Las Vegas for months. The noise finally got so loud that Secretary of State Ross Miller had no choice but to raid the nonprofit.
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My son recently asked why I sent him an email. The question startled me. He stared at his inbox like an archaeologist discovering ancient hieroglyphics and informed me that email is to his generation what mailed letters were to mine—slow, formal, and vaguely irritating. Apparently, for Gen Z, communicating via email is about as convenient as strapping a note to a carrier pigeon.
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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.
