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By Michelle L. Price Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Despite Democratic election wins across Nevada last year, Republicans are banking on President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic supporters, a united GOP organization and a soaring economy to turn the state red in 2020. “When the nation’s economy does well, Nevada does well,” said Jeremy Hughes, a Las […]
Republicans in Nevada gearing up for Trump reelection
Is This You? Let Me Direct You
Do these words reverberate in your ears? “If all else fails, read the directions.” They do in mine. Loudly. It’s not that we as a whole civilization know everything about everything. We just don’t want it to show that we don’t know everything about everything. Directions? We don’t need no stinking directions. It’s not until […]
Eureka County Commission Meeting Highlights
Minutes from the May 20 meeting from the Eureka County website: The Board of Eureka County Commissioners met pursuant to law on May 20. Present were Chairman J.J. Goicoechea; Vice Chair Michael Sharkozy; Commissioner Rich McKay; District Attorney Ted Beutel; and Commissioner Clerk, Jackie Berg. The meeting was called to order at 9:30 a.m. and […]
How to save the West from devastating wildfires
As we enter another wildfire season — and each one seems to be more devastating than the previous one — the question lingers: Why? According to The New York Times, The Washington Post and National Geographic it is unquestionably due to climate change. Pay no heed to the fact that prior to 1980 less than […]
June 27, 2019
Nevada should reject 50 percent renewable energy
Are Nevada voters and lawmakers falling for a scam? In an article titled “Solar Power to Hit the Wall in Nevada” in “American Thinker” this past week, retired engineer Norman Rogers says we are. In November, Nevada voters approved by nearly 60 percent a constitutional amendment that would require 50 percent of the electricity consumed […]
Train derails near Nevada-Utah line; no injuries reported
Associated Press WELLS — A train carrying military munitions derailed in the high desert of northeast Nevada on Wednesday, closing an interstate for about an hour before emergency crews determined there was no danger. No injuries were reported. Cars carrying the munitions to a Nevada Army depot were not among those that derailed near the […]
Is This You? A Battery of Questions
I’ve had to jump a battery to get a car going. Or a tractor, 4-wheeler, lawn mower… It was drilled into my pea brain that, “black on black off” is the correct hook ‘em up and unhook ‘em sequence. It’s a right of car ownership passage to have jumped a battery at least once. Like […]
The left hails Nevada legislative session amid 2020 backdrop
By Michelle L. Price Associated Press LAS VEGAS — As the dust settles on Nevada’s Legislative session, the buffet of progressive laws passed by the Democrat-controlled, female-majority Legislature has been hailed as an example by the party’s presidential candidates and others on the left. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris have tweeted praise for Nevada lawmakers […]
Lt. Governor stresses importance of rural tourism during Nevada visit
By Miranda Lamb Nevada Lieutenant Governor Kate Marshall paid a special visit to Pioche June 14. Marshall has been visiting key tourist spots in Nevada. Pioche was the last place on her itinerary. “As lieutenant governor, I am in charge of tourism, which is really rural tourism, so part of what I do is going […]