Some Candidates Say Robbing Peter to Pay Paul Would Kick Start Economy
Vice President Joe Biden breezed through Nevada one afternoon earlier this month, stopping long enough to pitch the idea of increasing the federal minimum wage 40 percent from $7.25 an hour to $10.10,...
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Nevada’s Sesquicentennial: 150 Years of Being 15 Percent of a State
On Oct. 31, 1864 — 150 years ago today — President Lincoln declared, “Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in accordance with the duty imposed upon me...
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To Halt Lake Mead’s Fall, Let Water Seek Its Natural Price Level in a Free...
The West has been parched by drought for 15 years. Lake Mead stands at 39 percent of its capacity. Thousands of acres of agricultural land lie fallow. Fruit and nut trees are dying. Cities are banning...
View ArticleSen. Reid’s Plan Would Force Power Prices from NV Energy to Necessarily...
Predictably Nevada Sen. Harry Reid launched into full pouting mode after the Nevada Public Utilities Commission killed a proposal by NV Energy to build a $438 million, 200-megawatt photovoltaic solar...
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Will historic election in Nevada bring historic solutions?
After an historic election in which both houses of the Nevada Legislature flipped from Democratic to Republican majorities, could an historic change in the ideas considered in Carson City result?...
View ArticleThink tank creates ‘road map’ for Nevada lawmakers in 2015
The state of Nevada — for the first time since before the Great Depression — has a Republican governor and Republican majorities in both the Assembly and state Senate, as well as all the statewide...
View ArticleStates Can Do a Better Job of Saving Endangered Species and Jobs, too
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was intended to protect the grand and noble eagles, bears, whooping cranes and condors, but it has turned into a tool for self-styled environmental groups to wipe...
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Nevada 13th in tax collections, 45th in education spending
Cowboy humorist, philosopher and rope-twirling raconteur Will Rogers once said, “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” Well, everybody knows Nevada is a...
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Author of book on presidential power grabs should have enough material for a...
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced...
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Las Vegas City Council commits taxpayers to $100+ mil for soccer stadium, if...
The Las Vegas City Council, by a 4-3 vote, approved public financing potentially adding up to more than $100 million for a Major League Soccer stadium. The taxpayer-funded stadium and parking garage...
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