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“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session,” is often attributed to Mark Twain. Though the quote is most likely apocryphal, its veracity is […]
Opinion
Should Each County Get a Single State Senator?
The blue Clark County tail wagged the red Nevada dog in this past week’s election. Election results show rural and urban Nevada are of two vastly different states of mind. […]
Local Government Unions Create Huge Pay Gap
It is good to be a public servant in Nevada, downright lucrative in fact. The folks at the Nevada Policy Research Institute have crunched the Census data for 2017 and […]
Does the 14th Amendment Require ‘Birthright’ Citizenship?
Following up on a stance taken during his election campaign President Donald Trump now says he will sign an executive order ending so-called “birthright” citizenship. Trump told “Axios on HBO” […]
Is This You? Horse Apples
I feel very lucky to live where I do. I walk each day. Two or three miles depending on the amount of caffeine on board that tells my legs how […]
Is This You? The Wind-Up
More times than I can count I want to start a column with, “Picture this!” But that line is used very often and I don’t want to be cliché. So […]
Pink Tax Repeal Would Shift Tax Burden
Question 2 on the November ballot — the so-called pink tax repeal — would eliminate the state and local sales taxes on feminine hygiene products such as tampons and sanitary […]
Rural Communities Are Tapping Tourism Potential
By Senator Catherine Cortez Masto For many of Nevada’s communities “Don’t Fence Me In” is not just a tourism slogan or a beloved lyric to a classic Western song, but […]
These Statewide Candidates Worthy of Your Vote
The statewide elective offices on the November ballot are of doubly vital concern to rural Nevadans this year, primarily because the urban counties are likely to stack the Legislature with […]
This Big Piggy Goes Oink, Oink, Oink
The libertarian-leaning Nevada Policy Research Institute has published this year’s edition of its popular “The Nevada Piggy Book” — a collection of anecdotes illustrating the tendencies of state and local […]