Opinion Columns
Looking back over last week’s State of the State speech and the Democratic response, it occurs to me that perhaps the reason Nevada’s Democrats don’t want to come out strongly for new taxes is that they want to appear to be open-minded.
Gov. Brian Sandoval did a workmanlike job of delivering a straightforward, unadorned State of the State speech in Carson City Wednesday, setting out a budget and agenda for the Legislature that will mostly preserve the status quo.
It was such a simple thing, at first.
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Secretary of State Ross Miller’s electronic poll book bill is a relatively straightforward piece of legislation that ought to have little trouble achieving a consensus in the Nevada Legislature.
Once more unto to the breach, dear friends, once more.
The Clark County Commission’s vote Tuesday will not be the vote that saves University Medical Center.
The first week of 2013 wasn’t exactly the best for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Let me begin with a bold assumption: If the thunderous voice of God himself, clothed in smoke and fire from atop Mount Sinai, commanding “thou shalt do no murder,” is not enough to stay the hand of human evil, then a law passed by the United States Congress isn’t going to do the trick.
In the political year about to pass into history, there were literally hundreds of memorable things said. Today, I take a look back at the year that was through the prism of a select few of those remarks.
There came a moment at the end of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s meeting with the Review-Journal editorial board Wednesday when he said something very illuminating.
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