Spend enough money, crunch enough data — you can “prove” anything. A recent study out of the hallowed halls of the University of California at Berkeley found a 70 percent […]
Opinion
Gun Law Backers Too Wily for Their Own Good
The backers of a 2016 ballot initiative to create a state law requiring criminal background checks for all private party gun sales — something not required by federal law — […]
Good Riddance to EPA’s Clean Power Plan
President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has pulled the plug on the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which called for power plants in every state to reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 32 […]
Commerce Tax is Unnecessary and Burdensome
Gov. Brian Sandoval has been crying about a paper cut as though it were an amputation. Ever since Attorney General Adam Laxalt stated that he would run for governor next […]
Bill Would Limit Power to Create National Monuments
The House Committee on Natural Resources this past week approved a bill sponsored by Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop to rein in the powers granted by the Antiquities Act of […]
Jobs And Wildlife Can Coexist
In 2015 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that years of science-based protections by federal and state land use plans had substantially reduced risks to more than 90 percent […]
Tax Reform That Could Benefit Nevadans Slipping Away
It looks like a tax reform proposal that could have resulted in lower income tax rates for Nevadans is swirling down the drain. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that […]
Survey Finds Widespread Campus Intolerance for Free Speech
Welcome to the coming mobocracy. It appears we are rearing a generation that already has all the answers, knows what needs to be said and done and will brook no […]
Lawsuit Falsely Claims Fracking will be Devastating
The Luddites are tossing legal wrenches into the economic machinery. A pair of self-styled environmental groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court in an attempt to block oil and […]
Zinke’s National Monument Modifications Too Modest
Frankly, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s memo to President Trump recommending modifications to a few national monuments — including the 300,000-acre Gold Butte National Monument in Clark County — is far […]

