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What do you call a country in which one person has the power to dictate to local elected officials how land within their jurisdiction may be used or not used? […]
Opinion
Time to free the community colleges to stand on their own
Study after study have determined the state’s community colleges, especially those in rural Nevada, are getting short shrift under the current Nevada System of Higher Education governance structure. A year […]
Imperious BLM agents still behaving like they are better than us
Who says the United States does not have a royal class? The bureaucrats at the Bureau of Land Management just don’t think like the rest of us. They are downright […]
Nevada should control its land and not settle for paltry alms
The silence is deafening. Because so much of the West in general and Nevada in particular is controlled by the federal government and cannot be taxed, Congress four decades ago […]
Feds flagrantly infringe free speech rights with futile ferreting
Reason magazine has been hit with a federal subpoena seeking “any and all identifying information” about comments posted on an online blog discussing the conviction and harsh sentence given to […]
The IRS should back off changing gaming rules
The Internal Revenue Service is pondering new rules regarding tax reporting by casinos — including tracking player rewards and loyalty card programs and lowering the threshold for reporting electronic jackpots […]
Those who once pushed for clean energy now balk at paying the price
Be careful what you so ask for. You just might get it — good and hard. Return with us now to those thrilling days of the 2013 Nevada legislative session, […]
Anti-bullying law may have unintended consequences
In his latest book, “The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Senseless Bureaucracy,” Philip K. Howard writes about how American lawmakers have abandoned all pretext of common […]
Finally, some common sense compromise from the BLM on grazing
Sometimes you just have to call their bluff. The Bureau of Land Management had for two years denied permission for Badger Ranch owners Dan and Eddyann Filippini to graze cattle […]
2015 Nevada Legislature was all take and no give
The expectations for the 2015 session of the Nevada Legislature were exceedingly low, but, by jove, they spectacularly exceeded the lowest expectations and gave a new definition of the word […]