Who can mourn 2025?
Opinion
Washington, D.C., has a news media strongly in favor of endless government growth and voters who lean strongly Democratic. So, with Democrats now in control of both Congress and the White House, it wasn’t hard to foresee the resurfacing of the old cry for “a vote in Congress for the District of Columbia.”
After adding plenty of suspense to what many legislators considered a slam dunk, the state Senate voted 16-5 Tuesday to increase the hotel room tax by 3 percentage points.
To the editor:
If you’re not checking out the local blogs on reviewjournal.com, here’s just a sample of what you’ve been missing:
The nation’s two major political parties go to great lengths to preserve their monopoly status. Among their favorite tactics: limiting the participation of third-party candidates in national debates and burdensome state laws that make ballot access difficult for those other than Republicans and Democrats.
Like many other states, including Nevada, Washington is struggling with serious revenue declines. Facing a $6 billion budget deficit, Gov. Chris Gregoire, a Democrat, said last week it was time for “belt tightening” and vowed to go after some budgetary “sacred cows.”
Hoping to limit the damage state legislators seem to do every time they meet, Nevada’s voters passed a constitutional amendment a few years ago limiting legislative sessions to 120 days every two years.
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve yelled that at the TV lately as Barack Obama, who sermonized every Sunday about the evils of earmarks, now can’t muster the backbone to practice what he preached.
You can’t just make it up as you go along. Otherwise, what is the point of a couple hundred years of jurisprudence?
It’s not often that I find myself in agreement with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, but on the point of the idiocy of the obsolete concept for long-term storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, we seem to share some similar views.
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Like many of us, Michael Towns once struggled to lose weight due to inconsistent dieting and overeating, and that struggle came with a series of health complications.
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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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