Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

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Veto doesn’t end fight for affordable medicine
Nevadans are stretching every dollar at the grocery store, budgeting to pay for other expenses, and worrying about how they will pay the high costs of their medications. We need relief at the pharmacy counter, ...
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Starve liars of any attention
Why do the media continue to give a lying, cheating, criminal oxygen? Cut him off and he will die like a weed ...
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Rosen champions Train More Nurses Act at UNLV Simulation Center
Photo: Sen. Jacky Rosen, second right, D-Nev., responds t U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., observed UNLV nursing students at the university’s Clinical Simulation Center Thursday, conversing ...
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Biden administration restores wildlife protections weakened under Trump
After three years of planning and navigating the slow bureaucracy of federal rule-making, the Biden administration is restoring a series of protections for imperiled animals and plants that had been loosened under President Donald Trump.
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Just how wet has California’s rainy season been?
Photo: A rainbow over San Francisco following heavy rains On Sunday, California’s rainy season officially comes to an end.
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Nonshooting deaths involving Las Vegas police often overlooked
Nonshooting deaths involving Las Vegas police often overlooked When a Las Vegas police officer shoots and kills someone, the death sparks a clear review process: from providing information to the public to evaluating whether policies should be changed ...
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Congress can show commitment to veterans by following Rosen’s lead
Congress can show commitment to veterans by following Rosen’s lead Kudos to Nevada’s own U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, who this week introduced the Veterans Assistance Helpline Act. The bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to permanently maintain a toll-free telephone help line that ...
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Why do Christians have such differing views on poverty?
I remember attending Sunday school as a kid. Performing in the children’s choir. Christmas plays. Sweating bullets about leading the opening prayer during “Children’s Sunday.” Youth retreats ...
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Chaparral senior finds solace on volleyball court amid great personal loss
Photo: Orepa and Kaino Tauiliili are seen in this family Ioane Tauiliili nearly cried when seeing the support from friends at the Chaparral High School volleyball match. He also nearly cried when he glanced over to the spot where his mom always sat in the ...
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New Senate leadership tussle is a throwback to the old days
Photo: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), jo When Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the longest-serving Senate leader, decided to step aside from his leadership role at the end of the year, it signaled the turning of a new page in the chamber.
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Former President Donald Trump’s scheme soaks donors
Former President Donald Trump has always preferred to live off someone else’s money. He’s proud of it. He’s bragged about using clever schemes to avoid paying taxes, which shifts the tax burden to the rest ...
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Beneficiaries owe reparations
I found Rebecca Clarren’s March 24 guest column, “We now know that free land wasn’t free,” an interesting and historical perspective about parcels of land she claims her Jewish ancestors acquired in South Dakota over ...
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