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The newspaper community in Nevada is a rather small clique of writers and editors, competing against each other for the hot news scoops and heart-tugging feature stories and precious pearls of political punditry. It […]
Thomas Mitchell
A little GOP schooling: Do the math, read the history
Donald Trump keeps throwing temper tantrums like a spoiled school boy, complaining the system is rigged and crooked and he is being robbed of votes. “You’re going to have a very, very angry and […]
Let the political parties choose their candidates without the state’s interference
A change in election law in the 2015 Legislature has some claiming they are being disenfranchised. Previously, when the state-run Democratic and Republican primaries resulted in only one of the two major parties having contested […]
Federal judge should disarm the Grouseketeers
In order to meet a judicially imposed deadline, in September Interior Secretary Sally Jewell declared that the greater sage grouse — whose habitat stretches across 23 million acres in 11 Western states, including much of […]
The two faces of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy
Not since Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shared the same body has one man been seen in such startlingly contrasting lights. That man is Cliven Bundy, the Bunkerville rancher whose armed supporters two years […]
There are consequences to practicing civil disobedience
Have you ever contemplated the prospects of living a simpler, more self-sufficient, unencumbered life? Perhaps on a few acres of land with the nearest neighbor over the horizon, down a dirt road? You could graze a […]
Hage ranchers again plan Supreme Court appeal
It is like fighting the Hydra, cut off one head and two grow back. But the federal government is no myth. It is immortal. It has the power to print money and hire an […]
Sen. Heller pushing for faster approval of broadband easements
Once again Nevada’s Washington representatives are having to resort to legislation to force the slothful federal land agencies to more quickly allow the public access to rights of way across putatively public lands. Earlier […]
Is the Silver State being unconstitutionally awed into obedience to the feds?
Over the years the battle to grant states greater control over the vast swath of federal public land have ebbed and flowed. There have been court battles, mostly lost. There have been legislative resolutions and bills, […]
Absurdly trivial conflicts escalate to tragedy
The absurdity of it all would be comical if the consequences were not so extraordinarily dire. One man is dead, shot to death by officers at a roadblock. Father and son ranchers are in prison […]