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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Anyone reading this newspaper is no doubt aware that they are reading a newspaper that, according to others, no one reads; but if by some miracle someone does happen to read this column and feels like helping me out to solve this memory problem that is becoming more of an issue for me, perhaps they can jog my memory regarding those cases, dates and even positions. So far there are more than two dozen women complaining about a particular show producer,[…]
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[…]
When I read the press release of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles regarding human trafficking, I don’t know if I was relieved, shocked, saddened or surprised over the many years people have ignored the problem. Human trafficking has been around and alive for years, without any interest from authorities in general. Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery; it is a serious international problem that warrants our full attention and consideration. Now the office of Governor Brian Sandoval, together[…]
