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February 6, 2020
Navy Review Backs Planned Expansion of Bombing Range
The U.S. Navy released their final Environmental Impact Statement on Jan. 10 which addresses the expansion and modernization of the Fallon Range Training Complex for the Naval Air Station Fallon. They concluded no significant environmental harm would come from its proposed tripling of the size of the Nevada bombing training range Calling for one last […]
Is This You: Pen Man Ship
Some time ago, a few friends and I were putting together a soiree, pronounced “swah-ray.” Fancy smanchie, right? OK, it was just a party. Thought I would get more sympathy for the following story if I approached you with some high-class stuff. I am not high-brow or high class. In some places, really fun places, […]
Sheriff’s Letter to Governor Getting Mixed Reactions
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez The Nevada Independent Eureka County Sheriff Jesse Watts issued an open letter earlier this month expressing “distain” (sic) for Gov. Steve Sisolak and accusing him of using the October 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas as a way to “show boat” and “grand stand” in order to further gun control laws. […]
Eureka’s Drayton Takes Third at Spring Creek Invitational
Vandal wrestlers competed at the 27-team Spring Creek Kiwanis Invitational last weekend at Spring Creek High School. Of the six Vandals competing, they earned 47 points for an 18th place finish among the teams invited. Chris Drayton (160) did the best for Eureka, placing third in his weight class and garnering 25 team points. He […]
Vandal Boys, Girls Split Road Trip Games
Eureka teams went to Wells and Jackpot for league action last weekend and did the exact opposite of each other. The boys won at Wells and lost at Jackpot, while the girls lost at Wells and won at Jackpot. Jackpot, hot team that they are this year, kept up their string of wins over the […]
Marijuana-Impaired Driving on Law Makers Radar for Next Session
As noted recently in an article in the Elko Daily Free Press, Nevada lawmakers have a number of probing questions likely for the 2021 state legislative session, dealing with the subject of persons driving under the influence of marijuana. An interim legislative committee was to look at some of the issues at a meeting held […]
Clark County Teachers Union Pushing Huge Tax Hike
The Clark County teachers union this past week launched two tax hiking ballot initiatives that would raise Nevada taxes by $1.4 billion — devastating the state’s economy and doing nothing to actually improve the quality of education. One proposal would increase the Local School Support Tax — a part of the statewide sales tax — […]
January 30, 2020
Why the NEPA Rules Needed Streamlining
While Democrats in Congress were having palpitations and forecasting climate catastrophe as a result of the Trump administration’s streamlining of rules governing the review of federally funded infrastructure projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1970, Nevada’s lone Republican representative in Congress took the time to review the rules and finds the changes […]