Sen. Aaron Ford was for releasing police body camera footage before he was recorded talking with officers after his son’s arrest. Now it’s up to the Nevada Supreme Court to upload the public’s access to records.
Victor Joecks
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Victor Joecks is a Review-Journal columnist who explores and explains policy issues three days a week in the Opinion section. Previously he served as the executive vice president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute. Victor is also a staff sergeant in Nevada National Guard. Originally from Washington state, Victor received his bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College.
If you don’t believe the polls, believe the early voting data. Nevada has many tight races. Here are four observations from five days of early voting.
Nevada Court of Appeals Judge Jerry Tao is running for the Nevada Supreme Court as an originalist, because “we need to be faithful to the words of the statute and the constitution.”
Obama’s untruths don’t justify Trump’s — or vice versa. But it’s best not to wrap your criticism of someone else’s dishonesty in falsehoods of your own.
Aaron Ford is so desperate to be attorney general that he’s willing to baselessly accuse his opponent of trading the lives of Nevadans for a few hundred dollars. To make it worse, Ford is using those who died on October 1 as political props.
Nevada should institute work requirements for adults who can work and encourage doctors to come and remain in Nevada, according to Republican gubernatorial candidate and attorney general Adam Laxalt.
Political violence has come to Nevada, and it’s ugly. On Wednesday, Wilfred Michael Stark, a tracker with the far-left Super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, allegedly attacked Kristin Davison, the campaign manager for Adam Laxalt.
If everything Question 6 supporters say is true, there’s no need to vote for it. Question 6 is a constitutional amendment that would require that Nevada get 50 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030. Nevada’s current renewable portfolio standard is 25 percent by 2025. As a constitutional amendment, voters would need to approve it in 2018 and 2020.
Despite having some of the most watched and expensive political races in the country, Nevadans won’t get to see many debates. There’s a reason for that. Jacky Rosen, Steve Sisolak and Susie Lee keep dodging them.
Either Steve Sisolak doesn’t know how to improve Nevada health care or he thinks he can’t get elected telling voters what he wants to do. Neither possibility is comforting, but that’s the conclusion you’re left with after reading the health care plan he released Monday.
Nevada education needs more money combined with accountability, but it’s too early to promise funding for Education Savings Accounts, according to Republican gubernatorial candidate and current Nevada attorney general Adam Laxalt.
Question 5 would automatically add non-citizen voters onto Nevada voter rolls. That’s not speculation. It’s in the text of the initiative.
Susie Lee has been repeatedly late paying property taxes and utility bills over the last dozen years, a Review-Journal investigation has uncovered. Lee’s late property tax payments resulted in over $1,300 in penalty and interest payments. She also had seven separate liens filed against three Las Vegas properties for unpaid sewer and solid waste service bills.
Talk is cheap. Leaving NV Energy isn’t. Large corporations have spent over $100 million to ditch NV Energy’s monopoly. Pass for Question 3, and you’ll have the same opportunity — with one major difference. It won’t cost you a dime.
Nevada needs to increase the number of psychiatric ERs and the penalty for some serious crimes, according to Republican attorney general candidate Wes Duncan.