Opinion

Last year, Secretary of State Ross Miller and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto turned Nevada’s recall petition process upside down. The Democrats looked at the Nevada Constitution, along with nearly four decades of election law, and discovered what so many others before them had apparently overlooked.

A painful recession is no excuse to water down property rights in Nevada.

A Southern Nevada lawyer told the Nevada Supreme Court this month that pharmacists, at the least, had a duty to call physicians to voice their concerns before dispensing a narcotic painkiller to a woman who killed a man in a 2004 vehicle crash in Las Vegas.

Tempers are flaring in Carson City — and Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford finds himself right in the middle of it.

To the editor:

Nine years ago, when Rudy Giuliani was mayor, New York City politicians and bureaucrats grew frustrated that their gun control laws were being bypassed by New Yorkers going out of state to buy firearms.

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman often describes himself as the happiest mayor in the world, or, if he’s feeling really good that day, the happiest mayor in the universe. It’s all part of his effort to promote Las Vegas as a great place to visit and to invest.

In a speech before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, President Barack Obama embraced merit pay for teachers, spelling out a vision of education that, The Associated Press reports, “will almost certainly alienate union backers.”

To the editor:

“We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review.”