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March 29, 2024

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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 connects military veterans ...
RFK Jr. thumbs his nose at rule of law as well as established science
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump have long shared a love of conspiracy theories, but news earlier this week revealed that they also share a disregard and ...
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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 100 years ago ...
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By Susan Thiel, Henderson
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 of us ...
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By Mike Barrett, Ashburn, Va.
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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By James Dalessandro, Shaker Heights, Ohio
Politics need not be so dishonest
In response to the March 25 letter “Choose a steady leader in 2024”: Does the writer believe he is more fair or moral than Republicans or Donald Trump’s supporters? He cites Trump’s statement that ...
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By Mike Measday, Las Vegas
Reflect on Easter’s meaning
Soon we will celebrate Easter, a time of joy for many practicing Christians. Current trends show that all religions are seeing reductions in their pews. This is primarily due to the many who have renounced their religious beliefs and are now being counted as “none" ...
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By Bob Sweeney, Warwick, R.I.
Trump’s bills aren’t charity
Former President Donald Trump is planning to use political donations given to the Republican National Committee to pay his personal legal fees and other bills. He feels every donor or American owes him money ...
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By Paul Gary, Las Vegas
Take an honest look at Trump
Donald Trump’s presidential history has been marred by unprecedented legal controversies, from damning verdicts on sexual misconduct, to slander, to fraudulent business dealings, hush money, and incitement, to insurrection ...
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By Gary Lewey, Las Vegas
Fake patriotism is easily spotted
The “bloodbath” remark the former president recently couched in reference to the auto industry vis a vis electric car manufacturing production was tasteless and incendiary ...
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By Peter McMurran, Henderson
Choose a steady leader in 2024
On March 16, in two separate speeches, former President Donald Trump mistakenly told one crowd that President Joe Biden had once beaten former President Barack Obama and another crowd that if Biden beat Trump this year ...
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By Tom Harper, Henderson
GOP campaign of hate is toxic
Various anti-hate campaigns in the media today fail to mention the biggest hate movement of all, the one sponsored by far-right Republicans against Democrats ...
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By Kimball Shinkoskey, Woods Cross, Utah

Other Voices »

  • 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 connects military veterans ...
  • 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, and Nevadans are looking at their elected officials and lawmakers to make health care more affordable ...
  • 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 ...
  • Raising the retirement age wouldn’t hep anyone
    It’s budget season in Washington, which means the politicians are delivering their annual warnings about the looming Social Security crisis. How big of a crisis — and how close it looms — is largely within their control, and there are basically three proposals to address it ...
  • Cable news overcorrected on airing Trump’s speeches
    Remember when cable news got the blame for electing Donald Trump in 2016, because airing so many of his rallies in their entirety was seen as the gift of free advertising? ...
  • Texas’ immigration law is both logical and terrible
    Lone Star Republicans passed Senate Bill 4 last year, which would make illegally crossing the border into Texas from Mexico a misdemeanor with a punishment of up to six months in jail. Repeat offenders could face ...
  • Judge’s handling of Trump case went from bad to horrible
    As the judge presiding over the federal prosecution of Donald Trump for hoarding classified records at his Florida estate, Aileen Cannon has consistently indulged Trump’s far-fetched legal arguments and overall strategy of delay ...
  • Supreme Court is playing a dangerous game
    If the chief currency of the Supreme Court is its legitimacy as an institution, then you can say with confidence that its account is as close to empty as it has been for a very long time ...
  • Sexually graphic shaming of fellow legislator crosses bounds of decorum
    American political culture hit a nadir this month, when a Nebraska state senator unleashed what can only be described as a verbal sexual assault on a female colleague during a debate about keeping obscenity out of schools.
  • How much will next abortion decision hurt Republicans?
    To the dismay of Republicans, and the advantage of Democrats, abortion rights remain a high-priority issue for voters nearly two years after the Supreme Court ended a half-century of constitutional protection nationwide. That should come as no surprise.
  • Crisis building in US electricity system
    There is a storm gathering over the nation’s electric supply.
  • Birth control win is just one step forward in fight for true bodily autonomy
    In recent years, there has been a monumental shift in access to reproductive health care, marked by the availability of the first over-the-counter birth control at pharmacies, convenience stores and grocery stores — Opill.
  • MLK’s Montgomery speech demanded that we vote, not disenfranchise ourselves
    Rev. Martin Luther King and numerous other leaders had just marched more than 50 miles along Alabama’s Highway 80 into Montgomery four days after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge out of Selma. Safely crossing on their third — this time, bloodless — attempt, protected by 1,000-plus military police and Army troops ...
  • Biden’s $12 billion for women’s health should be just a start
    One week ago, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will create a $12 billion fund to improve our understanding of — and ideally treatments for — women’s health ...
  • Solidarity with Israel a hallmark of great US leaders
    I want to talk about three Jewish leaders. The first two are Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The third ...