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An effort has been launched to make the boundary changes to political districts after the 2020 Census less subject to manipulation by the major political parties. Earlier this month, the […]
Time to Bring Wild Horse Population Under Control
The Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board met in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 31 and came up with a list of recommendations for the Bureau of Land Management and the […]
Appellate Court Nominee Falsely Accused
The confirmation process for federal judicial nominees has turned into a scorched earth battle fueled by character assassination and innuendo coming from faceless, nameless partisan critics who can never be […]
Bill Language Should not Allow Water Grab
A growing number of public and private entities are joining a concerted effort to make sure a bill pending before Congress does not inadvertently create a means for Clark County […]
How and Why Nevada Became the 36th Star
his week Nevadans celebrate Nevada’s entry into the Union as a state on Oct. 31, 1864 — 155 years ago. Not only was Nevada “Battle Born,” as the flag proclaims, […]
Public Workers Should not be Bound by Union Contracts
In June of 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees ruled 5-4 that it is unconstitutional to require public-sector employees to […]
Asylum Seekers Should Prove Their Claims
Nevada’s Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford joined with other attorneys general this past week in filing a friend of the court brief in a case challenging another Trump administration rule […]
Government retiree costs must be reined in
The PERS cost creep continues. According to TransparentNevada, a website maintained by the Nevada Policy Research Institute, the number of former Nevada government employees drawing pensions in excess of $100,000 […]
NPRI issues report card on 2019 Legislature
The conservative/libertarian Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) recently published its biennial report card on our state’s legislative session, but, rather than just rate lawmakers on how they voted, this year […]
Trump Appeals Court Nominee Looks Right for the Job
This past Friday President Trump nominated former Nevada Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke to a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which handles cases for nine Western states […]