Steve Sebelius

CARSON CITY — Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak said at the outset of his remarks to the Carson City Democratic Central Committee’s Capital Blue Dinner Tuesday that he wasn’t going to announce his candidacy for governor.

Although it’s incredibly early in Trump’s tenure, it would be shocking to think that some of his fellow Republicans haven’t thought ofchallenging him in the 2020 primaries.

CARSON CITY — Terminally ill patients who want to choose when to end their own lives are one step closer to having that right, after the state Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee voted to advance legislation on the topic Monday.

To hear the heartbreaking testimony — on both sides — of the so-called death with dignity debate is to plunge oneself into the wrenching maw of doubt.

It was another morning commute, northbound on Interstate 15 headed for downtown Las Vegas. A smattering of cars in the fast lane came up quickly behind a big-rig truck, the driver of which, abjuring the other two lanes, stubbornly hewed to the left.

With the stroke of a pen Monday, Gov. Brian Sandoval ended the debate about whether the Clark County School District would be reorganized, and moved on to how.

One of the reasons the framers of Nevada’s Constitution included a separation-of-powers clause was to avoid the creation of a super-class of elite rulers, passing laws that applied to the masses but not to them.

The thing about Yucca Mountain is the momentum.

Perhaps a bill that said, “North Las Vegas Constable Robert Eliason doesn’t have to follow the law,” would have been too obvious.

LOS ANGELES – Albany Law School Professor Stephen E. Gottlieb has devoted himself to studying the political science behind why democracies fail.