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Nevada’s education savings account (ESA) law is in dire straits thanks to a convoluted state Supreme Court ruling that said ESAs are constitutional but the funding mechanism devised by lawmakers […]
Opinion
Is This You: Jobbery
For some inexplicable reason I woke up this morning thinking of the jobs I’ve had during my stint on Mother Earth and I laughed at the varied past I’ve had. […]
Eye For An Eye: Karma Snaps Back On Harry
We won’t say Harry Reid is dumb as a post. We’d need an official IQ test from the post. What we can say, however, is that what goes around comes […]
Universal Gun Background Check Law Declared Unenforceable
Question 1 has been impaled on a Catch-22. You remember Question 1, don’t you? It was on all the ballots in Nevada and passed with a mere 50.45 percent of […]
Congress or Trump Could Undo Monument Designation
There is a word for what President Obama did this past week in declaring Gold Butte a national monument: dictatorial. In just more than a year Obama has unilaterally declared […]
Is This You: The Belly of the Closet
We are just coming off the high of the Christmas and New Year season. Now we deal with where to put the new gifts we have received. Like where to […]
Nevada Could Be Ground Zero For Resurgence Of National Defense
Nevada knows nukes, or at least we used to. First, the election of Donald Trump reignited the debate over the possible resurrection of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. […]
Interior Secretary Nominee Should Work With States on Public Lands
It is a bit disappointing that Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Interior Department, which along with other federal agencies controls 85 percent of Nevada, does not embrace […]
Why We Have a Federalist System, Instead of a Democracy
Someone buy these folks a civics textbook and maybe a Cliff Notes version of the Federalist Papers. Yes, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 3 million more votes […]
Senate Should Confirm Oklahoma Attorney General to Head EPA
After eight years of Obama appointees trying to grab dominion over every square foot of rural land in Nevada and the West, laying claim to every mud puddle, dictating how […]