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.
Nevada’s next governor needs to preserve categorical funding for education and give school districts the ability to remove ineffective principals. Universal school choice, however, gives money to well-off families that would be better spent in public schools. That’s according to Education Nevada Now policy director Sylvia Lazos.
If students playing hooky solved gun violence, mass shootings would have ended decades ago — kids, just ask your parents if they ever cut class. That’s not going to stop today’s students from trying again.
Defying abortion groups, union bosses and Rep. Nancy Pelosi isn’t a great way for a Democrat to save his political career. It’s the only choice Rep. Ruben Kihuen has left, however, and it just might work.
The government shouldn’t pick winners and losers in the economy. That includes trade policy. On Thursday, President Donald Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum with the ability for countries to negotiate exclusions.
Democrats want to roll back Gov. Brian Sandoval’s education reforms, the commerce tax should stay in place and Nevada’s gun-safety laws were strengthened in 2015. That’s according to Sen. Michael Roberson, R-Henderson.
Going to press events is a normal part of my job. What happened Monday — as I walked to the press event where Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Sisolak announced his education plan — isn’t.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt may be a strong conservative, but he’s positioning himself as a defender of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s moderate policies.
The big gun-control bill House Democrats are pushing after the horrific Florida school shooting has a significant flaw. It won’t prevent the next school shooting. On Monday, House Democrats introduced an assault weapons ban.
A self-described bold progressive running for Congressional District 4 says she’s open to gun confiscation and believes that nationalized health care would save the country trillions.
Nevada’s Democratic Party doesn’t think a women’s right to choose should include picking where she gets medical treatment. Last week, Republican gubernatorial candidate and attorney general Adam Laxalt visited First Choice Pregnancy Services, a crisis pregnancy center.
Government bodies have violated Nevada’s open meeting law in numerous ways over the years. The offenses usually aren’t as blatant as the infringement committed Thursday by the Clark County School Board.
During the last legislative session, Nevada Democrats tried numerous times to increase Nevada’s minimum wage. With the 2018 elections less than nine months away, Nevada’s Democratic Party is now actively recruiting dozens of unpaid interns.
Even tighter gun control won’t prevent every future school shooting. That’s according to David Chipman, senior policy advisor with Giffords.
Being a shooting victim doesn’t make you an expert on ending gun violence. You wouldn’t know that from watching CNN. It’s been a week since a monster killed 17 at a Florida high school. The calls for gun control have been reflexive and ambiguous, but the media has found a new mouthpiece — shooting survivors.
After every mass shooting, Democrats and their allies in the media tell Americans to “do something.” The response to Wednesday’s horrific shooting in Florida has been no different.
