Las Vegas Sun

March 19, 2024

Columnists

  • Four things every business owner should do before starting a business in Las Vegas
    I love the first quarter of the year. I quickly become one of the most popular people in town. That’s because many people create a New Year’s resolution to start their own business.
  • Red states shrug off measures to prevent lead poisoning
    Here are a few things we know about lead in drinking water ...
  • Ivy League is right to revive the SAT
    The back-to-the-SAT bandwagon rolls on as elite schools reverse course and once again require the SAT for admissions. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was an early re-adopter, back in 2022 ...
  • Nation’s wealthiest pay a far cry from a fair share
    As tax day approaches, it’s a good time to reflect on the societal agreement that our nation funds necessary things through our tax dollars and that taxes should be progressive — placing greater obligation on those with the most ability to pay ...
  • Oscar speech was an affront to Holocaust victims
    Everyone who watched this year’s Academy Awards on March 10 will remember that one moment of controversy when British movie producer Jonathan Glazer tried to equate Israelis with Nazis ...
  • Focus on the deficit that actually matters
    All the fearmongering in Washington over the $1.5 trillion federal budget deficit hides a truth few politicians would admit — that hefty headline number you hear so much about is an unreliable measure of ...
  • Rick Spilsbury looks in the direction of Rocky Mountain juniper trees on Nov. 11, 2023, in Bahsahwahbee, a site in eastern Nevada that is sacred to members of the Ely Shoshone, Duckwater Shoshone and the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation. Their ancestors were massacred by white people on several occasions at this site and tribal members believe their spirits live on in the trees.
    Guest column: Feds must deliver on Bahsahwahbee National Monument
    Bahsahwahbee is a national treasure and one of the most significant sites for Western Shoshone people in the Great Basin. For thousands of years, my people gathered at this unique place, with its majestic groves ...
  • To make peace with becoming an empty-nester, be at peace with yourself
    Recently, my eldest daughter took her 17-year-old sister to tour a few colleges in Northern and Central California. A part of me desperately wanted to go with them — my youngest’s first real college tour! But it was clear that ...
  • Inspired by a new generation of girls
    It is hard to find your voice. It is even harder to use it, amplify it and sustain it. But that’s what the girls and women in Parker’s book are doing every day, in their own way ...
  • Animals are living beings, not sideshows for our amusement
    It seems everywhere you look in Las Vegas, there’s a resort featuring a Cirque du Soleil show. This wildly popular modern-day circus dazzles audiences with its skilled human performers and not a single animal act ...
  • Your vote for president could make Supreme Court worse
    By now, it shouldn’t need to be said: When Americans vote for a president, the federal courts are on the ballot as well. Yet, too few voters, especially among those in the decisive middle, make their choice with ...
  • Zombie jokes aside, qualified immunity must die
    During the early weeks of the COVID-19 lockdowns, professional boxer Waylon Bailey logged on to Facebook and compared the pandemic to a zombie apocalypse ...
  • What GOP’s misleading response to Biden’s speech revealed
    The youngest Republican woman ever elected to the Senate, and the first from Alabama, chose a long-sleeved green blouse for the biggest speech of her political career ...
  • Trump learned nothing from his failures, but wants a second chance
    Now that the primaries have all but confirmed Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential candidate, he is already displaying the way he intends to conduct foreign policy if reelected. He plans to be a one-man show, in cahoots with authoritarian rulers whose unfettered power he admires.
  • Cereal for dinner? It’s one way to beat inflation
    Every once in a while, Shardreata Moore gets a Subway coupon in the mail, and she knows she won’t have to worry about her next three meals.
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