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You might not have said anything when they announced that ObamaCare-compliant health insurance premiums are going up nearly 40 percent next year because you get your insurance elsewhere. You might […]
Rural Groundwater Grab Gets Federal Court Hearing
If whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting, this fight has gone on for 28 years and the combatants are still flailing madly. In 1989 the agency that […]
Here’s Another Chance to Repeal the Commerce Tax
In 2014 Nevada voters rejected by 79 percent to 21 percent a proposed margins tax, effectively an income tax on state businesses. Despite this unequivocal rejection at the ballot box, […]
Western congressmen seek monument size reductions
Recently the 17 members of the Congressional Western Caucus — which includes Nevada’s Rep. Mark Amodei — took Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke up on his request for feedback on what […]
Legal dithering allows continuing violations of state Constitution
Frankly, it sounds like a self-contradictory argument. Or circuitous at best. Until the 1960s, it was largely agreed that public employees could not also serve in the Nevada Legislature. This […]
Another public pension warning flag raised
Researchers at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University have published their annual “Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition,” and Nevada ranked a respectable 14th among the states in overall […]
Police should not seize property without a conviction
President Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a reputation as a law-and-order guy, but the plan he announced this past week to step up civil asset forfeiture efforts skirts the […]
Bundy case judge trying to prevent jury nullification
The retrial of four defendants in the 2014 Bunkerville standoff at the Bundy ranch got underway this past week in Las Vegas, and this time the prosecution and the judge […]
Repeal ObamaCare and let states handle health insurance
The bad news for those who live in Clark, Carson City and Nye counties is that companies offering ObamaCare-compliant health insurance policies have requested 38 percent premium increases in 2018. […]
How to make use of those Yucca Mountain tunnels
Sometimes things just naturally come full circle. For decades Nevada’s former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid constantly pounded on two themes: Blocking nuclear waste from being stored in Yucca Mountain in […]