One is an anomaly. Three is a pattern. The abrupt resignation of Kelvin Atkinson makes him the third former Democrat state Senator to fall from grace in the last two years.
Victor Joecks
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Victor Joecks is a Review-Journal columnist who explores and explains policy issues three days a week in the Opinion section. Previously he served as the executive vice president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute. Victor is also a staff sergeant in Nevada National Guard. Originally from Washington state, Victor received his bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College.
Sens. David Parks and Joyce Woodhouse are each receiving six-figure pensions from the Public Employees’ Retirement System. Now, they’re co-sponsoring a bill to prevent you from finding out how much retirees, themselves included, will collect going forward.
It doesn’t makes sense for Las Vegas to spend millions in litigation fighting development at the Badlands golf course. One of the major root causes of homelessness is drug addiction. Las Vegas shouldn’t use rent control rein in prices. That’s all according to Las Vegas City Council Ward 1 candidate Dave Marlon.
If an abortionist — armed with scissors, clamps and a vacuum cleaner — can’t kill a baby while she’s still in the womb, he shouldn’t get another chance after she’s born. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen disagree.
Barack Obama says things that would get a Republican branded as a racist or sexist. These are some of his finest moments.
If abortion advocates believed their own rhetoric, they’d oppose the Trust Nevada Women Act.
The residents of Las Vegas’ Ward 3 aren’t thinking about the development issues surrounding the Badlands golf course. They do, however, want more neighborhood police patrols to increase public safety. That’s according to former Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz who’s running for the Ward 3 city council seat.
It’s a lot harder to attack your legislative allies than your enemies. Just ask the Nevada State Education Association.
Las Vegas Metro has implemented a new sanctuary policy. It might be what keeps Nevada from becoming a sanctuary state.
Faced with a difficult question about the background check bill, a lawyer for Everytown for Gun Safety recommended violating federal law.
The background check bill currently being rushed through the Nevada legislature isn’t the same as the background check initiative voters passed in 2016, according to Dan Reid, western director of the National Rifle Association.
It says something about the popularity of your proposal when you’re desperate to hide it from the public. That’s what legislative Democrats did with a bill requiring background checks on private-party gun sales.
Democrats have rediscovered the virtues of due process. All it took was a woman accusing one of their rising political stars of sexual misconduct.
The Federal Reserve looked recently at Nevada’s pension system. The results are terrifying. It found that Nevada’s Public Employees’ Retirement System has an unfunded liability of $43.3 billion in 2016.
Some Nevada Democrats aren’t satisfied with having a Democrat governor and large legislative majorities. They also want to ignore the constitution to make it easier to raise taxes.