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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell came to Nevada earlier this month and told a meeting of Western governors in Las Vegas that her department’s goal is to find ways to protect […]
Opinion
Tax Revenue is Ample, but Here are Cuts if More Needed for Education
You could hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth radiating out of Carson City all across the sagebrush-dotted terrain this past week when the Economic Forum forecast that the state […]
Author of Book on Presidential Power Grabs Should Have Enough Material for a Sequel or Two
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced […]
Nevada’s Problem is its Spending Priorities, Not its Rate of Taxation
Cowboy humorist, philosopher and rope-twirling raconteur Will Rogers once said, “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” Well, everybody knows […]
Nevada Must Fight EPA Ozone Limits or Face Economic Peril
The Environmental Protection Agency this past week issued draconian new regulations that slash the levels of ozone allowed in ground-level air, posing a particular problem for all of Nevada. “Bringing […]
States can do a better job of saving endangered species and jobs, too
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 was intended to protect the grand and noble eagles, bears, whooping cranes and condors, but it has turned into a tool for self-styled […]
Nevada should demand federal compensation to cover cost of Obama amnesty
President Obama came to Nevada this past week with pen in hand and Nevada Sen. Harry Reid by his side to explain to the world how he is going to […]
Give Nevadans a break with IRS sales tax exemption
If the lame duck session of Congress does nothing else, it must pass an extension of the federal income tax deduction for state and local sales taxes. Currently state and […]
Think tank offers road map for Nevada lawmakers
The state of Nevada — for the first time since before the Great Depression — has a Republican governor and Republican majorities in both the Assembly and state Senate, as […]
Rural lands bill must pass Senate now
As the days of Nevada Sen. Harry Reid’s power to set the agenda of the U.S. Senate wind down in this lame duck session of Congress, there is one bill […]