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Nevada court rightly upholds the public has right to know
- April 18, 2018
The Nevada Supreme Court has made it clear that public officials cannot skirt the state public records law by using privately owned electronic devices to conduct the public’s business. This past week the court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that rejected a request for records from Lyon County commissioners because those records were not stored on devices owned by the county. The county conceded that public business was indeed conducted using personal phones and email addresses. The county website[…]

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Nevada’s Attorney General: Looking for the right person
- April 6, 2018
After every election time. I tell myself that politics is no longer as much fun as it used to be many years ago; that I am not going to read or pay attention to anything the candidates say or any of the positions for which they are running. Politics is like the flu: once it’s in your system, it takes a while to get rid of it; and when the new session comes around, I find myself again itching[…]

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Supreme Court case about free speech — not abortion
- April 6, 2018
This past week the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case — NIFLA v. Becerra — that could answer the question of whether forcing speech on certain professionals is a violation of the free speech clause of the First Amendment. NIFLA is the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, which gives legal advice to pro-life pregnancy centers, and Becerra is Xavier Becerra, the attorney general of California. At issue is a California law, the Reproductive FACT Act, that[…]

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Seaman opens door for Tarkanian
- April 1, 2018
After losing her seat in the Nevada Assembly, Victoria Seaman announced that she was ready to run for Congress in District 3 “to serve her constituents,” making her the first candidate for that seat. After preview failures to win a seat in the Nevada legislature, Seaman was elected to Assembly Seat 34 in the November 2014 election and started serving her constituents in January 2015; five months after being sworn in, she announced that she’d be seeking a senate seat[…]

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Two different approaches to Internet provider access
- March 23, 2018
When boiled down to its essence, the key difference between the two major political parties is this: Democrats believe government is the solution. Republicans believe government is the problem. This difference is on display with bills being pushed by two Nevada senatorial candidates — incumbent Republican Dean Heller and challenger Jacky Rosen, currently a freshman congresswoman. Rosen recently introduced legislation that would reinstate the Obama administration’s 2015 net neutrality rule, which gave the Federal Communications Commission sweeping powers to micromanage the internet.[…]

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The Las Vegas Tribune reaches voters who vote

April 18, 2018

It’s stupid that both Democrats and Republicans have tossed the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s new political reporter, Ramona Giwargis, out of two events she went to cover. How dumb or cowardly are these people who kick the press out? The losers are the readers. Once again we have to make sure that a disclaimer is clearly posted in this very important voice of our newspaper: We do not like Senator Dean Heller; we have not endorsed, and never will endorse, Senator Dean[…]

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FBI raid on Cohen ‘a disgrace’

April 14, 2018

By Jordan Fabian The Hill President Trump on Monday blasted the FBI for raiding the office of his personal attorney Michael Cohen, calling it a “disgrace” and a “pure and simple witch hunt.” “It’s a real disgrace,” Trump told reporters at the White House as Vice President Pence, national security adviser John Bolton and other officials looked on. “It’s an attack on our country in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand for.” The president spoke[…]

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Editorials · My Point of View

I did not hesitate. I asked for Valley Hospital.

April 13, 2018

It was over a decade ago when I was admitted to Valley Hospital, one of the oldest hospitals in our city; back then everything, including Valley Hospital, was old — so old that on the door of every patient’s room was a sign reminding visitors not to smoke in the room. Everyone asked me the same question about my choice of hospital, and I repeated the same thing to everyone who came to see me: the hospital may be old,[…]

Letters to the Editor

April 12, 2018

By Rolando Larraz It was over a decade ago when I was admitted to Valley Hospital, one of the oldest hospitals in our city; back then everything, including Valley Hospital, was old — so old that on the door of every patient’s room was a sign reminding visitors not to smoke in the room. Everyone asked me the same question about my choice of hospital, and I repeated the same thing to everyone who came to see me: the[…]

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Martin Luther King, Jr. 50 years—not forgotten

April 7, 2018

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an amazing man. He is definitely one of our heroes, and if everyone who heard him speak, listened, whether to one of his speeches, face to face, or even “heard” him through his quoted words, the things he had to say were strong enough to change a life, shape a life, and create a decent and loving human being — if taken to heart. We can let his own words speak for him, and while[…]

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Nevada’s Attorney General: Looking for the right person

April 6, 2018

After every election time. I tell myself that politics is no longer as much fun as it used to be many years ago; that I am not going to read or pay attention to anything the candidates say or any of the positions for which they are running. Politics is like the flu: once it’s in your system, it takes a while to get rid of it; and when the new session comes around, I find myself again itching[…]

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Trump demands Senate ‘nuclear option’ and ‘no more DACA deal’

April 6, 2018

By Luis Sanchez The Hill President Trump said Sunday that Republicans must change Senate laws in order to pass tougher border and immigration legislation. In a position shift, he also said the GOP should no longer make a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program deal with Democrats. Trump tweeted that liberal laws are preventing Border Patrol agents from doing their jobs and Republicans need to take action. The “nuclear option” Trump is referring to would involve changing Senate rules[…]