The Nevada Legislature hasn’t adequately addressed big issues in recent sessions because lawmakers have insisted on burying themselves under small stuff.
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Here’s some sobering perspective on Tuesday’s overwhelming defeat of Question 3, The Education Initiative: Even if voters had approved the business margins tax and injected hundreds of millions of new tax dollars into Nevada’s underperforming K-12 system, it would have done nothing — nothing! — to address the state’s school construction, renovation and technology needs.
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An unpopular Congress has an opportunity to do something exceptionally popular during the coming lame-duck session: extend a number of tax breaks that are important to the bottom line of millions of American families.
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Voters in a pair of Southern Nevada Assembly districts sent a strong message to lawbreaking political opportunists Tuesday: We don’t want carpetbaggers in Carson City.
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Republicans weren’t the only ones living the high life on Election Day. Proponents of legalized, recreational marijuana also were big winners, with decriminalization measures passing in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C.
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Tuesday could have gone worse for Harry Reid. The U.S. Senate majority leader could have been on Nevada’s ballot.
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Nevada voters sent a pair of messages in Tuesday’s midterm elections. They trust Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval to deliver on his promise to improve the state’s underperforming education system. They did not trust the promises of Question 3 supporters to do the same.
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It’s Election Day. If you haven’t voted, today you have an opportunity to prevent great harm to Nevada, its economy and its ability to attract new industry. And for thousands of Nevadans, the stakes are even higher. You might be among the many voting to save your job.
RJ
Voters can expect bad consequences if they elect bad candidates. Bad decisions. Bad policy. And in some cases, entire government offices turned upside down.
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Election Day is three days away. And plenty of Clark County voters remain stumped by the more than two dozen judicial races on the ballot — if they plan to vote on these important contests at all.
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Residency requirements for public offices are enshrined in state law for an important reason: Voters should be represented by people who live among them, not by absentee opportunists or cynical carpetbaggers who crave power but have no desire to invest in the neighborhoods they oversee.
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You can’t fight the spread of an infectious, deadly disease with secrecy. In fact, containing a potential outbreak requires exactly the opposite: openness, transparency and rapid disclosure.
RJ
The classic board game Life features a key moment when each player reaches the “Day of Reckoning” space. A big decision must be made.
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Nevada officials must be exceptionally protective of the state’s image. Las Vegas, especially, is a global tourist destination. Dumb policies and practices lead to bad visitor experiences, which hurt the Nevada brand.
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Next week’s midterm elections are a referendum on the Obama administration’s six years of domestic and foreign policy failures. One issue is especially emblematic of White House bungling in both realms: the Keystone XL pipeline.
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