What to Do with Empty School Buildings

“Six new public schools are supposed to open in the fall,” reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal today, “but Clark County School...

Setting the Stage for a Royal Screwing

Legislators in Carson City are clandestinely preparing to nail Nevada citizens with a huge tax hike right smack dab in the...

Let’s Have the Same Standard for All

Proponents of making mandatory seat belt use a primary offense, along with opponents of repealing Nevada’s mandatory helmet law for motorcyclists,...

This is a Priority?

Taxes, spending, education, health care. Pretty important issues. And yet the Assembly yesterday took time out to pass a bill (AB...

Annual Trouble-Making

Let’s face it, as the state goes to hell in a hand-basket economically this year, legislators have wasted almost the entire...

The End Run

Blocked by the people and the Constitution from meeting more than 120 days every other year, the Legislature is trying to...

Oh, the Humanities!

Faced with the fact that elected officials over the years have built up a government it can no longer afford, public...

Target-Rich Environment for Perverts

Another Clark County public school employee has been arrested on sex-related charges involving a minor child.

Study This!

Apparently the economy isn’t so bad that Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio doesn’t think coughing up an additional $300,000 for a...

Stupidity Virus Running Rampant in Carson

The things Nevada’s legislators think are important while the state’s economy crumbles around them never ceases to amaze me.

As the UMC Turns

According to a Las Vegas Sun editorial today, a consequence of the decision to close the outpatient clinic for chemo-therapy at...

Don’t $#&% With the SEALs

Pirates, ye be warned. Here’s a quick New York Times synopsis of how the hostage situation off the coast of Somalia...

Good Night, Sleep Tight

Proving once again that there is nothing, no matter how ridiculous, some elected officials won’t try to legislate, a Las Vegas...

Roll Out the Hammock

Thanks to conservative efforts at welfare reform during the Clinton administration, welfare recipients in Nevada may collect taxpayer-funded benefits for up...

Leave Non-Voters the Hell Alone

Municipal elections were held in five southern Nevada cities this week, and very few voters bothered to show up at the...

Have Some TEA with Citizen Outreach

Citizen Outreach Joins Las Vegas Tax Day TEA Party/Rally/Picnic to Be Held at Sunset Park

Stimulating a Deeper Hole

Now here’s the sort of talk we like to hear from a Republican governor…