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Opinion
Yes, Nevada sits at the bottom of plenty of good lists and the top of lots of bad rankings. But one recently published study put Nevada way down a particularly nasty set of state ratings: corruption.
Determined killers, deranged gunmen and terrorist threats have forced local emergency responders to rethink their approach — and their safety — in active-shooter and multiple-casualty scenarios.
Secret wait lists, delays in care, shoddy treatment and needless patient deaths. How much bigger can the already-humongous Veterans Affairs mess get?
Public schools are great voting locations because they’re everywhere and they’re public property. But officials at two Southern Nevada campuses caused problems during last week’s primary election — and broke the law — by treating their schools as private property.
The Budget Control Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2011 to end a debt ceiling standoff, brought “sequester” into the American vocabulary by guaranteeing billions of dollars in automatic federal budget cuts if a congressional supercommittee couldn’t reach a bipartisan deal on spending reductions. The idea was to force Democrats and Republicans to strike a compromise by imposing an unimaginably horrific, Draconian alternative if they failed.
The Bureau of Land Management finally made one prudent decision in its battle with rancher Cliven Bundy: withdrawing. The weeklong feud began with the BLM rounding up hundreds of Mr. Bundy’s cattle, and reached heightened tension levels by Saturday afternoon in a 20-minute standoff between armed ranchers and law enforcement officers.
If it looks like a bus and drives like a bus, then it’s a bus. Unless, of course, the Nevada Transportation Authority soon decides that a bus can be called a limo. In the name of safety, of course, because that’s what regulations are always about. They’re never about suffocating competition.
The people of this country enjoy the presumption of innocence when accused of criminal wrongdoing. Their possessions, however, are not afforded similar protections — especially along Interstate 80 in Nevada’s Humboldt County.
Let’s clear up a common mischaracterization about the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s plan to pump groundwater from rural eastern Nevada and move it to the Las Vegas Valley for urban use: The agency doesn’t want to build the pipeline.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal today announced a sweeping staff reorganization aimed at improving coverage of several topics, including news, sports, features, politics, opinion, entertainment and betting.
The state’s campaign to wrest control of massive stretches of land from the federal government is under way, thanks to the opportunity created by this year’s passage of Assembly Bill 227.
The ongoing policy dispute between the Clark County Commission and the Metropolitan Police Department over public safety funding got very personal last week when board Chairman Steve Sisolak accused Sheriff Doug Gillespie of colluding with the officers’ union and an arbitrator to give officers pay raises.
The problem with special-interest politics is, eventually, special interests collide. Take Clark County’s horse roping ordinance. The animal welfare crowd, as emotional, invested and unrelenting as any political group you’ll find, got it approved.
The U.S. Senate’s filibuster rules should have been nuked nearly a decade ago.
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Three hours before his clients arrived at the Las Vegas Grand Prix last year, Nevada Stupak was already there, walking the route they’d take that evening.
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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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