Earlier this month Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke ordered the implementation of recommendations from a team that reviewed the previous administration’s draconian land use restrictions under the guise of protecting greater […]
Opinion
Court Ruling Puts State Water Rights in Jeopardy
Nevada is taking the lead in challenging a recent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that has the potential to obliterate more than a century of state water rights […]
Congress Needs to Delay or Repeal Health Insurance Tax
You might not have said anything when they announced that ObamaCare-compliant health insurance premiums are going up nearly 40 percent next year because you get your insurance elsewhere. You might […]
Rural Groundwater Grab Gets Federal Court Hearing
If whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting, this fight has gone on for 28 years and the combatants are still flailing madly. In 1989 the agency that […]
Here’s Another Chance to Repeal the Commerce Tax
In 2014 Nevada voters rejected by 79 percent to 21 percent a proposed margins tax, effectively an income tax on state businesses. Despite this unequivocal rejection at the ballot box, […]
Western congressmen seek monument size reductions
Recently the 17 members of the Congressional Western Caucus — which includes Nevada’s Rep. Mark Amodei — took Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke up on his request for feedback on what […]
Another public pension warning flag raised
Researchers at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University have published their annual “Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition,” and Nevada ranked a respectable 14th among the states in overall […]
Police should not seize property without a conviction
President Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a reputation as a law-and-order guy, but the plan he announced this past week to step up civil asset forfeiture efforts skirts the […]
Is this You? A Thief in the Outhouse
I was recently on another trip to the big city for doctor appointments. On the road as per usual there was need to stop and, well in Nevada terms, rest. […]
Bundy case judge trying to prevent jury nullification
The retrial of four defendants in the 2014 Bunkerville standoff at the Bundy ranch got underway this past week in Las Vegas, and this time the prosecution and the judge […]



