Las Vegas Sun

May 9, 2024

Columnists

  • Life has delivered some hard lessons for the Class of 2024
    The college Class of 2024 has had a tough run. As high school seniors, they saw spring proms and graduation ceremonies disrupted by a global pandemic ...
  • Dementia is a scary prospect, for ourselves or our president
    I’m not afraid of much. Typical fear-inducers like heights, spiders and snakes are no problem for me. Two things do bother me, though. The first involves young ones who don’t know how to swim being near a body of water that is ...
  • Biden and Trump should debate, under one condition
    During an interview with Howard Stern on April 26, President Joe Biden said he would be “happy” to debate Donald Trump. Biden and his campaign should rethink and rescind this offer, or else they should attach a ...
  • Republicans trying new way to control women
    Republican-led states keep finding ways to challenge the authority of the federal government on anything that doesn’t line up with their conservative worldview. This time the target is ...
  • Trump keeps warning us about his plans
    How catastrophic would a second Trump presidency be? Worse than you think. Worse, even, than I had feared — before I read his recent Time magazine interview in which Donald Trump lays out his plans. They are, in a word, insane.
  • Keeping up with young ’uns when you’re a boomer
    It’s hard to keep up with the young ’uns and their new trends … and new words, too. You think you’ve got your finger on the pulse, and something unexpected surprises you.
  • Noem’s cruelty fits right into MAGA gun culture
    It’s only right that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s evolving canine scandal should focus on Cricket, the 14-month-old wirehair pointer that Noem shot to death because Cricket was a bad girl. It was Cricket, after all, who took the bullet.
  • Time to take solopreneurs seriously
    According to the Small Business Association Office of Advocacy, 81% of small businesses are solopreneurs, and out of the 33 million U.S. small businesses, 22% are owned by women. As women, we recognize that our skill sets and ...
  • US power grid being sabotaged by EPA
    On April 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a blitz of regulations targeting the nation’s fossil-fuel power plants. In the center of the EPA’s crosshairs is America’s coal fleet, which remains a workhorse source of ...
  • ‘Big glass’ dominance hangs on the fate of powerful new telescopes
    More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena, Calif., institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mount Wilson Observatory changed ...
  • Election workers hold ballots during a recount of mail-in ballots at the Clark County Election Department, Thursday, June 30, 2022, in North Las Vegas.
    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 ...
  • Pro-Palestinian supporters continue their encampment protest on Vanderbilt University campus May 3, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.
    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 ...
  • Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at his criminal trial at Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024.
    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 ...
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