Guns are back in the headlines, with mass shootings at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., and in Chicago. President Barack Obama is calling for another effort to pass some reasonable gun control legislation.
Steve Sebelius
Where have all the Democrats gone?
I’ve known Robert Uithoven for a long time. I just don’t recall the exact moment when he went insane.
Everybody knows that what happens here, stays here. Come to Vegas, get rowdy and have a good time. We won’t tell.
On Sept. 17, 1787 — 226 years ago exactly — our Founding Fathers adopted the original seven articles of the Constitution, hoping and praying their ideas for a republic would endure into a future they could not know or even understand. They relied upon a keen understanding of human nature, reduced to writing timeless principles knowing that time would bring changes and necessary amendments to what they had done.
It was 2009, and a vexing problem was back before the Nevada Legislature.
Who should get more leeway when writing laws: the Legislature, acting as representatives of the people, or the groups who write and circulate initiatives, which are ultimately voted upon by the people themselves?
So U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thinks capitalism depends on “traditional Christian values” to succeed.
Deputy District Attorney Christopher Laurent found himself at a loss for words Monday, as the Nevada Supreme Court sharply questioned him about Nevada’s ridiculous medical marijuana law.
I’m just writing to ask if you’re really sure about waiting until well into next year to decide whether you’re going to support The Education Initiative, the 2 percent margins tax proposed by the state teachers union.
Clark County Commissioner Susan Brager’s compromise police sales tax proposal is probably the best deal Metro will get.
The commission heard about 2½ hours of debate Tuesday on whether to increase the fuel tax in the county by about 3 cents per year over the next three years.
The last time Rep. Joe Heck was accused of being uncaring toward rape victims, there wasn’t any proof to back up the charge.
It was just five months ago that Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie told the Review-Journal’s Mike Blasky that he would run for a third term next year. But on Monday, that all changed.
To say the idea percolating in North Las Vegas to seize mortgages in danger of foreclosure using the city’s power of eminent domain is controversial would be vastly understating the case.