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The Interior Department this past week announced that it is moving the headquarters of its Bureau of Land Management (BLM) division out of Washington, D.C., and west to Grand Junction, […]
Opinion
A Maternal Health Crisis in Our Rural Communities
By Senator Catherine Cortez Masto America is the only developed country in the world where maternal mortality has increased in recent decades. Almost two American women die each day from […]
Former Senator Discovers National Debt
Now safely ensconced in retirement for two years, former Nevada Democratic Sen. Harry Reid has suddenly discovered the country is spending more money than it reaps in taxes, driving up […]
Expect Long Lines Come Election Day 2020
Democracy is a chaotic endeavor. Nevada lawmakers have made it more so. Expect long lines and delayed results come the next Election Day. Assembly Bill 345, which passed on a […]
BLM Proposes Firebreaks to Reduce the Size of Wildfires
The Bureau of Land Management is currently conducting a series of public hearings across the West to get input on an audacious proposal to limit the unchecked spread of rangeland […]
Is This You? Crystal Clear!
When you hear crystal clear do you think of a brook, stream, river or maybe an inlet of a mountain lake. Ahhh. Such calm crystal clear water. Well that is […]
Nevada Gets Short Shrift on PILT Checks
The checks are in the mail. Nevada’s U.S. senators both sent out press releases a couple of weeks ago boasting about all the money Nevada counties will be getting from […]
Public Worker Contracts Should be Negotiated in the Open
Despite being duly warned, Nevada’s Democratic lawmakers and Democratic governor this past legislative session lit the fuse on a huge budget bomb — passing and signing into law Senate Bill […]
Is This You? Let Me Direct You
Do these words reverberate in your ears? “If all else fails, read the directions.” They do in mine. Loudly. It’s not that we as a whole civilization know everything about […]
How to save the West from devastating wildfires
As we enter another wildfire season — and each one seems to be more devastating than the previous one — the question lingers: Why? According to The New York Times, […]