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Opinion
Inaction of Nevada lawmakers highlighted by another campus shooting
A 26-year-old gunman opened fire on a community college campus in Oregon this past week killing nine and wounding nine others before killing himself when confronted by police. Within hours […]
Nevada wins sage grouse listing battle, but still faces land use restrictions
This past week Interior Secretary Sally Jewell declared that the greater sage grouse will not be listed under the Endangered Species Act, but instead created a federal land use plan […]
Let the free market ‘invisible hand’ distribute water
As Ronald Reagan once said: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Those words came unbidden to mind […]
Education savings account lawsuit must be expedited
Whatever the eventual outcome of the ACLU’s lawsuit trying to block the implementation of a state law creating education savings accounts (ESAs) as unconstitutional, it should be resolved quickly in […]
Premise of lawsuit challenging education savings account law flawed
This past week a second lawsuit was filed in state court challenging the constitutionality of a state law creating education savings accounts that would allow parents to use a portion […]
ACLU lawsuit is an attack on parental choice for educating their children
Many of the news stories about the ACLU suing to block implementation of Nevada’s education savings accounts (ESAs), approved by this past Legislature as Senate Bill 302, mention that such […]
Obamacare is breaking down and bleeding tax money
Obamacare is a black hole into which taxpayer money is being poured. It is bad enough that the union-backed Nevada Health Co-op has gone belly up with little chance of […]
Born in the USA — Congress may decide whether that warrants citizenship
When Donald Trump released a position paper on immigration earlier this month, he could not resist taking a potshot at Nevada’s Sen. Harry Reid. “End birthright citizenship. This remains the […]
Judges find in the folds of the law a right to watch predators
You never know what new, previously unheard of rights some federal judges can find tucked in the folds of the law. Earlier this month a three-judge panel of the 9th […]