Opinion Columns

Fighting, and losing, the battles of yesterday

Let me see if I have this right: Mitt Romney tells everybody who will stand still for a few minutes that he’s against the government giving away “free stuff.” He did it most recently Wednesday evening to an audience in Montana.

No reason to outsource the truth in ads

July 11, 2012 - 1:04 am

The second-best news for Shelley Berkley?

July 10, 2012 - 1:12 am

Good luck, Tick!

July 8, 2012 - 1:03 am

It’s bill-writing time! While it seems like just yesterday the 2011 Legislature adjourned, it’s already time for the intrepid Legislative Counsel Bureau to start posting the requests lawmakers and committees have made for new laws to be considered during the 2013 session.

Two decades for an interstate? Nuts to that!

July 6, 2012 - 1:01 am

It took the United States and its allies less than four years to win World War II.

What do I really want our country to be?

July 4, 2012 - 1:05 am

Recently on Facebook, I noticed a post from a conservative friend: “I would like someone out there to ask an ACLU-loving, radical liberal what they [sic] really want our country to be. It would be very interesting to hear it from their own lips what their twisted view of freedom is!”

Rep. Joe Heck’s answer to high court’s ‘stolen valor’ ruling

July 3, 2012 - 1:00 am

Private sector fine?

July 1, 2012 - 1:05 am

Everyone stay calm — the world isn’t ending

June 29, 2012 - 1:06 am

The very dark side of health care reform

June 27, 2012 - 1:03 am

I don’t know about you readers, but I’ll be watching tomorrow’s health care decision with more than just professional interest.

Still a long way to go on immigration

June 26, 2012 - 1:01 am

One unanticipated, but quite welcome, effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Arizona immigration law case Monday may be that it could help lawmakers save some time during the Nevada Legislature’s 2013 session.

Both of them earned it

June 24, 2012 - 1:04 am

So, apparently one of the knocks on Assembly Speaker John Oceguera – running for Congress against Rep. Joe Heck in the 3rd District – is that he’s a “double-dipper.”

Questions remain on initiative

June 22, 2012 - 1:10 am

A time to tax?

June 17, 2012 - 1:06 am

Time to talk about raising taxes. But don’t worry, it’s for a good cause.

Too bad ‘Battle Born’ was already taken

June 15, 2012 - 1:10 am

There’s still time, Nevada!