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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[…]

National

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[…]

Editorials · My Point of View

American people were tired of lies, political pimps double-talk…

April 1, 2018

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,[…]

Local News

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[…]

Editorials

Always thinking of you, Jessie

March 31, 2018

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[…]

Editorials

PERS should stop trying to hide public records

March 24, 2018

The Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) should stop wasting taxpayer money and release the records of Nevada public employee retiree payments as the courts previously ordered them to do. The Reno Gazette-Journal sued for these records in 2013 and won in the state Supreme Court, which found the records are clearly covered under the state public records law. The records were released, but the very next year PERS changed how their files are maintained in an obvious ruse to dodge the[…]

Editorials · Our Point of View

High salaries and dissatisfaction follow new Chancellor

March 23, 2018

We try very hard to stay out and away from the Chancellor’s view because we do not want to be accused of being harsh with him, since we are, perhaps, the only newspaper in Nevada, or in the universe for that matter, that was against his appointment to the position he is now holding as Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education. In our humble opinion, we believe that Thom Reilly is a man with more titles than anyone[…]