President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has pulled the plug on the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which called for power plants in every state to reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 32 […]
Commerce Tax is Unnecessary and Burdensome
Gov. Brian Sandoval has been crying about a paper cut as though it were an amputation. Ever since Attorney General Adam Laxalt stated that he would run for governor next […]
Bill Would Limit Power to Create National Monuments
The House Committee on Natural Resources this past week approved a bill sponsored by Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop to rein in the powers granted by the Antiquities Act of […]
Jobs And Wildlife Can Coexist
In 2015 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that years of science-based protections by federal and state land use plans had substantially reduced risks to more than 90 percent […]
Tax Reform That Could Benefit Nevadans Slipping Away
It looks like a tax reform proposal that could have resulted in lower income tax rates for Nevadans is swirling down the drain. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that […]
Survey Finds Widespread Campus Intolerance for Free Speech
Welcome to the coming mobocracy. It appears we are rearing a generation that already has all the answers, knows what needs to be said and done and will brook no […]
Lawsuit Falsely Claims Fracking will be Devastating
The Luddites are tossing legal wrenches into the economic machinery. A pair of self-styled environmental groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court in an attempt to block oil and […]
Zinke’s National Monument Modifications Too Modest
Frankly, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s memo to President Trump recommending modifications to a few national monuments — including the 300,000-acre Gold Butte National Monument in Clark County — is far […]
Trump Tells it like it is at the U.N.
The New York Times editorial called the speech bellicose and said it had a dark tone and focus. It compared the speech unfavorably to one by a more humble President […]
Nevada Must Examine Yucca Mountain Opportunities as well as Risks
There are two things we can’t seem to bury: Nuclear waste and the debate over Yucca Mountain. At something dubbed the RadWaste Summit at a Las Vegas hotel earlier this […]

