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April 25, 2024

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Hardworking Americans can cheer new rules regulating financial advisers
Kudos to the Biden-Harris administration for taking bold action to protect Americans’ retirement savings from unscrupulous financial advisers. On Tuesday, the administration announced ...
Taxpayers are owed an explanation when school district raises costs
Given the stakes, we would expect district officials to explain their concerns and justify their decision for such a dramatic policy change.

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Stop Russia’s momentum now
Winston Churchill described World War II as “the unnecessary war” because France and Britain had authority under the Treaty of Versailles to invade Germany in 1936 when Adolf Hitler entered the Rhineland with his then-small army ...
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By Douglas Bell, Henderson
Strong military is necessary
A stronger military, in the world today, is a necessity. We need to show any adversary that we have the capability to deter any aggression toward us. This cannot be accomplished by letting our military fall behind ...
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By Jim Veltri, Las Vegas
Country taking dangerous turn
The one common denominator in all of these calls to arms is sitting in criminal court in New York. Despite his uncouthness, pathological lying, hypocrisy and history of avoiding paying workers by filing numerous bankruptcies, red hats continue to worship at the Temple of Trump ...
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By David Gilyan, Las Vegas
Justice can’t stop for campaigning
Attorneys are familiar with the saying “the law is a jealous mistress,” which means good attorneys work long hours to properly represent clients, taking them away from their own families ...
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By Tom Harper, Henderson
Time to reel in tyrants’ power
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We have given too much power to too few people to hold for too long in America ...
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By Kimball Shinkoskey, Woods Cross, Utah
Donald Trump fever must be broken
Congratulations to House Speaker Mike Johnson for getting aid for Ukraine passed. It’s great to see him behaving more like a Reagan Republican than a Trump Republican ...
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By Bill Materna, Las Vegas
Elected officials failing America
At least 35-40% of Americans are strong believers in political fantasies and wild, false conspiracy theories.
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By Robert Bulmer, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Trump has clear racial preference
For years, former President Donald Trump has been clear about the kind of immigrants he wants coming to the United States: people from “(white) places like Norway,” and not from “(expletive) countries like Haiti and Africa.”
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By Mike Barrett, Ashburn, Va.
Clean energy is a feel-good story
I used to work in oil and gas drilling, but now I’m happier because I’m working in clean energy.
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By Tim Romeyn, Henderson
Voting rights are not negotiable
With the reintroduction of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), it’s crucial to have Congress prioritize this bill for the betterment of all communities. Throughout the years, there have been far too many unjust voting laws implemented that aim to ...
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By Eddie Pierce, Las Vegas

Other Voices »

  • Guest column: Strengthen protections for election officials in Nevada, nationwide
    Guest column: Strengthen protections for election officials in Nevada, nationwide
    Election officials in Nevada and across the country are essential to maintaining the democratic process. As a business owner in the Silver State, I recognize the importance of upholding a civic duty to improve my community and those around me — just as election workers uphold their civic duty by ...
  • Should jury in Trump’s case really remain anonymous?
    Should jury in Trump’s case really remain anonymous?
    What are we to make of the anonymous jury in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York? The practice has long had its critics ...
  • Weaponizing impeachment backfires on hapless Republicans
    Weaponizing impeachment backfires on hapless Republicans
    Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but the hapless House Republicans have finally achieved something big: an end to tit-for-tat impeachments ...
  • Hardworking Americans can cheer new rules regulating financial advisers
    Hardworking Americans can cheer new rules regulating financial advisers
    Kudos to the Biden-Harris administration for taking bold action to protect Americans’ retirement savings from unscrupulous financial advisers. On Tuesday, the administration announced ...
  • Hush-money criminal trial could cure ‘Trump amnesia’
    Before Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York got underway, pundits predicted that the proceedings could be a media bonanza for the former president. During this year’s Republican primaries, they noted, Trump’s popularity rose every time he was indicted ...
  • Vice President Harris’ moment has arrived
    One of Kamala Harris’ most memorable moments during the 2020 presidential election cycle was when, during a Democratic primary debate, she sharply criticized Joe Biden for working with segregationists in the Senate in their shared opposition to busing ...
  • Plastics, you and the global treaty
    This week, delegates from 175 countries gathered with representatives of industry, academia, health organizations and environmental groups, in Ottawa, Canada, to chart the course for the future of plastics and plastic pollution as they ...
  • Resolving border crisis requires increasing legal migration
    Given former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric during the Republican primaries, we can expect immigration enforcement on our southern border to be a major focus of his presidential campaign.
  • Ohio, Alabama playing ballot games with Biden
    Call it political tit-for-tat. Election officials in Ohio and Alabama have warned President Joe Biden that he might be left off their ballots in November because the Democrats’ mid-August nominating convention is past their deadlines.
  • Arizona’s outrageous abortion rollbacks will backfire in November
    Arizona’s outrageous abortion rollbacks will backfire in November
    Arizona’s Supreme Court judges just joined others in a line of states taking foolish measures to roll back abortion rights, reasserting an 1864 law banning the procedure outright. Meanwhile, groups working to put abortion rights on the ballot in the state have gathered ...
  • Objections to student debt relief expose GOP hypocrisy
    Objections to student debt relief expose GOP hypocrisy
    The political world is in an uproar over President Joe Biden’s dispensing of student debt relief. It’s not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits ...
  • Rate changes are looming: Follow long-term game plan for winning capital decisions
    Four key strategies for borrowing during interest-rate uncertainty
    While basketball fans everywhere are following NBA schedules, business owners are tracking the 2024 Fed meeting schedule.
  • Brian Greenspun
    Nevadans lead the charge against antisemitism
    This bill simply says that the United States will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism for the purposes of the federal anti-discrimination laws ...
  • Hush money trial is already not a good look for candidate Trump
    Whenever he enters or leaves the Manhattan courtroom in the case of People of New York State vs. Donald J. Trump, defendant Trump makes a beeline for the cameras, to rant about the goings-on. But to ...
  • Decisions about pregnancy should not be made by courts
    Decisions about pregnancy should not be made by courts
    The U.S. Supreme Court is once again taking up abortion, this time in a case deciding whether state-level abortion bans can override federal protections for pregnant people and stop doctors from providing life-saving emergency medical care ...