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It is called voting with your feet. From July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2018, Nevada’s population grew by 62,000 people to more than 3 million — a growth rate of 2.09 percent, the fastest in the nation. This included a net migration of 48,000 people Many of them came from neighboring California, with its […]
Keeping taxes low will keep Nevada prosperous
Report: Nevada’s infrastructure needs reflect the state’s rural-urban divide
By Daniel Rothberg The Nevada Independent When it comes to infrastructure, there are two Nevadas. A report released last week by the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the state’s overall infrastructure a “C” grade, but said the mediocre grade only told half the story. Engineers who compiled the study found a stark divide between […]
Land expansion comment period extended
By Heidi Bunch Special to the Sentinel The comment period for the expansion of the Fallon Range Training Complex Modernization draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been extended for the public review and comment period an addition 30 days. Those wishing to make a comment have now been extended to Feb. 14, 2019 for their […]
Is This You? Longer Laughter
My idea of laughter is not “lol.” Apparently I don’t get where lol is supposed to take me. I do not hear the sender’s laughter when I read lol. I haven’t much more than smiled in a while when I read lol from someone. I wonder if I am the only one who isn’t enamored […]
Vandal teams return
School will start up again next week and with that the Eureka High School sports teams will be anxious to return to action following the Christmas-New Year’s break. But even before that, the boys team has a meeting Jan. 4 with the Tonopah Muckers. The teams have played twice already this season, and just like […]
Nevada Press Association secures new management
The Nevada Press Association (NPA) announced this week that it has engaged Karpel Public Affairs (KPA) to manage the organizations’ affairs beginning January 1, 2019. KPA President Richard Karpel will serve as executive director of the organization, replacing Barry Smith, who retired in October. KPA is an association management company specializing in public policy and […]
Prohibition started early in Nevada
In December 1918, Nevada’s Supreme Court certified the state’s vote and prohibition became Nevada law as of midnight on Dec. 17, 1918. As a result, the state went dry a month before the 36th state ratified the 18th Amendment on January 16, 1919. Author Harold Smith wrote in the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly in 1976, […]
Ending net neutrality speeded up Internet
It has been a year since the Federal Communication Commission repealed net neutrality rules created by Obama’s FCC in 2015. Yet, the Internet miraculously survives. In fact, it is running 36 percent faster now that the meddlesome feds have been removed from the equation and the free market has been allowed to compete and innovate. […]
Adoption incentives could curb wild horse population
Why not? Unless some self-appointed “wild horse lovers” step in and manage to quash the idea, the Bureau of Land Management is seriously considering still another method for reducing the wild horse and burro population on the open range and in pens. The idea was floated in a report to Congress this past April. Instead […]
December 27, 2018
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