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Opinion
To the editor:
Nevada is a special state. A good place to live, work and raise a family. Unlike too many American states, she’s not hopelessly broken … yet. Her leaders, left and right, are close-knit and bound by a people who (despite the rhetoric of a few soreheads) are neither greedy nor unsophisticated.
Wednesday
Just when state lawmakers and Gov. Jim Gibbons thought they could put away their red pens, the Gaming Control Board reported Thursday that casino tax collections from last month fell 22.8 percent when compared with June 2007 — the state’s worst year-over-year drop in gaming taxes in at least a decade.
State engineer Tracy Taylor Wednesday granted the Southern Nevada Water Authority about half the groundwater it asked permission to pump from the rural Cave, Dry Lake, and Delamar valleys in east central Nevada.
Throughout the public health crisis surrounding Dr. Dipak Desai’s gastroenterology empire, the State Board of Medical Examiners has displayed an alarming lack of urgency in responding to reckless practices at his clinics.
The Nevada Prison Commission — a three-member board comprising the governor, attorney general and secretary of state — oversees the state Corrections Department. Simply rubber-stamping every move by department executives would render the panel pointless.
In 1973 — during the waning days of the decade-long undeclared war in Vietnam — Congress approved the War Powers Resolution, often called the War Powers Act.
It is true that some Nevada politicians have latched onto the term limit case to save their seats or oust their opponents.
Ethics alarms are again ringing outside the offices of Clark County’s commissioners, this time over the approval of a lobbying contract for Dan Hart & Associates.
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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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