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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.

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Nevada’s marijuana-initiative money already goes to education

Fixing Nevada’s education system starts with educating yourself on how the system actually works. Consider all the times you’ve heard and read that money from the recreational marijuana initiative isn’t going to education, despite promises to voters.

UNR’s tournament run shows why politics and sports shouldn’t mix

There are lots of things we’re divided on. Democrat vs. Republican. If gender is determined by biology or feelings. Whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under. For a couple brief hours on Thursday, Nevadans united around a common cause — cheering the University of Nevada Reno’s improbable run in the NCAA tournament. It’s exactly why politics and sports shouldn’t mix.

 
Denise Hooks on banning weapons, arming school police, NRA

Society should ban military-style weapons, although defining which firearms that includes is a work in progress. That’s according to Denise Hooks, the college student facilitator of March for Our Lives Las Vegas, which is happening on Saturday.

 
Sylvia Lazos on funding, collective bargaining, school choice

Nevada’s next governor needs to preserve categorical funding for education and give school districts the ability to remove ineffective principals. Universal school choice, however, gives money to well-off families that would be better spent in public schools. That’s according to Education Nevada Now policy director Sylvia Lazos.

 
Here’s what students should know about gun control

If students playing hooky solved gun violence, mass shootings would have ended decades ago — kids, just ask your parents if they ever cut class. That’s not going to stop today’s students from trying again.

 
Two lessons from Trump’s tariffs

The government shouldn’t pick winners and losers in the economy. That includes trade policy. On Thursday, President Donald Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum with the ability for countries to negotiate exclusions.

 
Laxalt running for Sandoval’s third term

Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt may be a strong conservative, but he’s positioning himself as a defender of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s moderate policies.

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