Don’t blame data centers for rising electricity costs.
Opinion
To the editor:
As worse economic news piles on top of the bad — declining passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport, declining visitor counts, declining gaming and sales tax collections — one group of Nevadans is doing a lot more than just squeal about state budget cuts leading to Armageddon.
You had three agendas last week at the Saddleback Church forum.
I’m a coin collector, in a small way. British issues of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, mostly: Pistrucci, the Wyons — apogee of the engraver’s art.
Four years ago as Nevada Democrats prepared to attend their party’s national convention in Boston, they had been hammered with the message that they lived in a battleground state.
Forty years ago, Americans still tuned in the respective Democratic and Republican national conventions to find out who was going to be nominated for president.
It’s easy to imagine the glee with which Nevada’s ever-higher-taxes crowd must be greeting a new study from the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, which found that Silver State residents enjoy the nation’s second-lowest state and local tax burden.
The 2008 presidential debates were formalized and scheduled Thursday, sending party loyalists and political junkies scrambling to their calendars. But Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Ted Weill, Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader weren’t among the millions fired up for the nationally televised contests.
Nancy Ford, administrator of Nevada’s Division of Welfare and Supportive Services, split the baby Tuesday, adopting one policy change designed to meet federal requirements that aid recipients be required to look for work, but rejecting another.
The sunny predictions that came from this week’s National Clean Energy Summit at UNLV largely ignored the dark clouds hovering above the Cox Pavilion. (No, they didn’t come from a coal-fired power plant.)
John McCain and Barack Obama each appeared Saturday — separately — at Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., where they fielded questions from pastor Rick Warren.
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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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