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“You know my rule, Andy,” says a grifter in an O. Henry tale, “that in all my illegitimate inroads against the legal letter of the law the article sold must […]
Education Saving Account Opposition Fails to Persuade
Nevada’s Supreme Court justices heard arguments in two different cases this past week on whether to uphold the state’s education savings account (ESA) program as constitutional. Paul Clement, a former […]
Test Results Reveal 90 Percent of Nevada High Schoolers Unprepared for College
The Nevada Department of Education is reporting that 90 percent of state high school juniors are not college ready, largely unchanged from the previous year and probably the worst of […]
Ballot Measures May Let Voters Determine Battle of Titans
It can be rather entertaining to watch titans grapple for power — unless they are doing it in your backyard and you can be trampled. The titans in this case […]
Jewell Feels a Drop of Rain and Declares Sky is Falling
Earlier this year Interior Secretary Sally Jewell delivered what could best be described as a doom and gloom speech about the state of disappearing “natural” lands in this country, primarily […]
Efforts to Save Endangered Species Can be Counterproductive
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. In 1973, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA), intending […]
Selective Dudgeon by Environmentalists Over Use of National Monument Land
This is why they are called spoilsports. A group calling itself Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is raising a ruckus over plans by the Bureau of Land Management to route […]
Nevada’s Rural Congressmen Chip Away at Federal Lands
Nevada’s congressional representatives who represent the state’s rural communities continue to chip away at the massive federal public lands under the control of various federal agencies in an effort to […]
Masto looking to lock down Democratic nomination
Former two-term Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is Harry Reid’s hand-picked choice to fill the Senate seat he is vacating after 30 years, during which he has served as both majority leader and minority leader […]
Press fights for your right to observe justice while it happens
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, this newspaper and The Associated Press are continuing to push for public access to evidence in the federal case against Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy, four of his sons and 14 […]