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This may seem like a minor writing point, but it’s significant, and it is happening right now in the mainstream media. News organizations have taken to substituting the president’s name […]
Donald Trump
Trump Budget Calls for ‘Alternative Solutions’ for Yucca Mountain
By Humberto Sanchez The Nevada Independent President Donald Trump Monday unveiled his $4.8 trillion fiscal 2021 budget blueprint, which included no funding to build a national nuclear waste repository at […]
In Whom Should we Trust our Future?
A couple of weeks ago at the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 17-year-old Swedish environmental scold Greta Thunberg for the second year in a row ranted about eminent […]
Biden Warns about Trump During Campaign Event in Las Vegas
By Ken Ritter LAS VEGAS — Former Vice President Joe Biden brought an alarmist warning to a diverse crowd of Democrats late Saturday in early-caucus Nevada during a town hall […]
Nevada Could Be Ground Zero For Resurgence Of National Defense
Nevada knows nukes, or at least we used to. First, the election of Donald Trump reignited the debate over the possible resurrection of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. […]
Interior Secretary Nominee Should Work With States on Public Lands
It is a bit disappointing that Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Interior Department, which along with other federal agencies controls 85 percent of Nevada, does not embrace […]
Why We Have a Federalist System, Instead of a Democracy
Someone buy these folks a civics textbook and maybe a Cliff Notes version of the Federalist Papers. Yes, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 3 million more votes […]
Here’s the rule: If you break it you own it
When the stock market goes up or down, credit and blame accrues to the president. Mostly unfair in a global economy, of course, but that’s how Americans judge it. Call […]
Trump appointees may hold key to Nevada’s economic future
What does a Donald Trump presidency forebode for Nevada? It is hard to say, because Trump has never kept a firm grip on any political position for more than a […]
You can fool some of the people some of the time — and that may be enough
I have a sincere and earnest question for a large plurality of Nevada Republicans who say they will participate in the state’s among-the-first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses in February: What the hell […]