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May 5, 2024

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Nevada can’t abide a senator who wants state to be nuclear waste dump
The federal government’s cavalier attitude toward the safe disposal of high-level nuclear waste created the current untenable situation in which an estimated 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste are being stored ...
Criminalizing homelessness reveals society’s cruelty and solves nothing
The health of a culture can be evaluated by two observations: how the citizens of that culture conduct themselves in public and how well vulnerable members of a society are cared for by their culture. On both counts the homeless crisis in America highlights failures of ...

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Animals don’t exist to amuse us
The Las Vegas Strip is an entirely inappropriate environment for animals of any species. Trying to spin these cruel displays as anything other than money-grabbing exploitation is absurd ...
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By Philip Tripp, Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
Justice delayed won’t be denied
Former President Donald Trump is trying to bend American laws to his will by employing all sorts of delaying strategies and tactics, and somehow he has convinced some people to support him in his attempts to rise above our laws ...
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By Fred Underwood, Henderson
Be grateful for blessings we have
There are thousands of ways students on elite campuses can get together and talk. Ruining campus property, saying “death to America” and burning the flag only begets hate ...
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By Mary Ann Toth, Las Vegas
DMV aims for smooth transition
At the Nevada DMV, we’ve recently heard lots of feedback about the decision to relocate the Henderson location. The new Silverado Ranch facility will still be equipped to handle all ...
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By Tonya Laney, Carson City
Immunization funding is vital
When is the last time you contacted your member of Congress, whether through email, phone or in person? It may seem intimidating, but the truth is they work for us ...
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By Priyambda Kumra, Las Vegas
Biden stacking clean energy wins
According to a report from the American Lung Association, nearly 40% of people in the U.S. — 131 million—live with unhealthy air pollution. Extreme heat, drought and ...
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By Rita Ransom, Las Vegas
Supreme Court endangers us all
There is a clear and present danger that our democracy is in jeopardy, a threat to America as we know it. The questions directed to the Justice Department attorney by ...
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By Dana Rideout, North Las Vegas
Palliative care is a worthy pursuit
The Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA) is a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle some of the obstacles preventing patients from accessing palliative care, which aims to relieve suffering and ...
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By Deidra Hamilton, Las Vegas
It’s not the payout, it’s the cover-up
Our nation’s highest court seems poised to offer guidance to the lower courts with a forthcoming ruling that a former president should be shielded from prosecution for official acts executed while in ...
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By Carol Ann Kimble, Las Vegas
Life doesn’t stop for interest rates
Those who lived through the late ’70s and most of the ’80s will recall that during 1981, a 30-year mortgage rate for a new home skyrocketed to over 18% interest. Even people with good credit were ...
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By Michael Miner, Henderson

Other Voices »

  • All Nevadans have a role to play in conducting free, fair, safe elections
    All Nevadans have a role to play in conducting free, fair, safe elections
    We always encourage Nevadans to hold their elected officials accountable by learning about the issues confronting us, paying attention to the words and actions of our elected officials and candidates, and finally voting in elections, whether in person or by mail ...
  • Brian Greenspun
    President Biden clear: Campus protests are not peaceful
    We have witnessed in the past few weeks some students as well as many others who have no business on campus, under the guise of free speech, storm university buildings, camp out on university quads, prevent free passage of other students to their classrooms, libraries and ...
  • One way to make college costs realistic again
    The future of colleges depends on the future of labor. A 2023 study of nearly 6,000 human resources professionals and leaders in corporate America found only 22% required applicants to have a college degree. The labor shortage is one aspect of the conversation. The shift in ...
  • Trump has poisoned Christian evangelicals
    Many evangelical Christians have convinced themselves that voting for Donald Trump is the best way to win over the culture war, get prayer back in schools and restore the United States to its theocratic roots. This is prominent in evangelical strains across ...
  • Could Trump go to jail for next contempt charge?
    Could Trump go to jail for next contempt charge?
    Judge Juan Merchan has, in his soft-spoken but hard-nosed way, told Donald Trump something no other court has over the course of his many civil and criminal cases: He’s down to his last chance ...
  • Antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster is a tightrope act
    Antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster is a tightrope act
    The Justice Department has opened an investigation into claims that Live Nation and Ticketmaster are violating antitrust laws and will be filing a lawsuit soon. Maybe. Justice won’t comment on an open investigation, but The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have both ...
  • Genre-busting musician dares to try to heal nation’s divide
    Genre-busting musician dares to try to heal nation’s divide
    Born into a Louisiana family steeped in music, instruments were never far from reach. Jon Batiste picked up drumsticks and percussion and performed with the family band, had his own band by the age of 14. Yet as ...
  • Our heroes often let us down
    Our heroes often let us down
    Donald Trump is in court right now. But not everyone understands that this is not a “hush money” case. He isn’t charged with being unfaithful to his wife or even with paying a woman to keep quiet about his affair. He is charged with falsifying ...
  • Women of Trump’s GOP jockey to be the most macho
    Women of Trump’s GOP jockey to be the most macho
    Slaughtering wolves from helicopters? Castrating hogs? Shooting up Priuses with assault weapons? Murdering misbehaving puppies? Is this what it takes for a Republican woman to be a credible candidate for higher office? ...
  • Calls from the left for Sotomayor to retire are absurd
    Calls from the left for Sotomayor to retire are absurd
    The left’s absurd calls for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down so that President Joe Biden can name a younger replacement should be roundly condemned. To be sure, such pressure is an American tradition in the never-ending battle to “control” the Supreme Court. But the tactic is ...
  • We pay a price for upper-class state legislators
    There is a coordinated, nationwide effort to roll back child labor laws, part of a broader campaign to concentrate even more power into the hands of employers ...
  • Civics education strengthens democracy
    A survey from the American Bar Association shows that most Americans are pessimistic about our nation’s democracy and are worried about the coming election. It is another reminder of the fragility of our democratic system at this ...
  • Arizona’s indictment of Trump allies follows a sordid, racist history
    Arizona’s indictment of Trump allies follows a sordid, racist history
    I’ve lived and/or worked in 10 states scattered across the country. Arizona was and remains the most complicated. The same state that elected the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city is also the state that did not want a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. ...
  • Yes, you should tip, but you shouldn’t have to tip
    Yes, you should tip, but you shouldn’t have to tip
    The topic of tipping has generated intense debate lately as an increasing number of restaurants impose “service charges” on top of regular bills ...
  • Will Columbia protesters achieve their goals?
    I fear that the current round of campus protests is wearing out its welcome.