Opinion Columns

I told you so

In early January 2012, I objected to President Obama’s use of his recess appointment powers to fill government jobs that were being intentionally left vacant by a filibustering Senate minority.

Isn’t there another way out of Brooks mess?

January 25, 2013 - 2:07 am

As reporters chased a mute, hooded, cane-wielding Assemblyman Steven Brooks from the Legislative Building in Carson City Wednesday – and then resumed the hunt as he got off a plane here in Las Vegas – it became instantly clear that this eventually must end.

After Brooks’ bizarre behavior, what now?

January 23, 2013 - 2:04 am

The truest thing said thus far about the increasingly bizarre saga of Assemblyman Steven Brooks, D-North Las Vegas, comes from former state archivist Guy Rocha, a man who has seen almost everything.

Reflections on an American inaugural speech – and America itself

January 22, 2013 - 2:01 am

What might have been

January 20, 2013 - 2:06 am

Looking back over last week’s State of the State speech and the Democratic response, it occurs to me that perhaps the reason Nevada’s Democrats don’t want to come out strongly for new taxes is that they want to appear to be open-minded.

Status quo speech signals fights ahead

January 18, 2013 - 2:06 am

Gov. Brian Sandoval did a workmanlike job of delivering a straightforward, unadorned State of the State speech in Carson City Wednesday, setting out a budget and agenda for the Legislature that will mostly preserve the status quo.

It’s not always about the politics, people

January 16, 2013 - 2:03 am

It was such a simple thing, at first.

It’s time to pay Washington’s bills the right way

January 15, 2013 - 2:00 am

One paranoid hearing

January 13, 2013 - 2:06 am

Secretary of State Ross Miller’s electronic poll book bill is a relatively straightforward piece of legislation that ought to have little trouble achieving a consensus in the Nevada Legislature.

Meet the new session, same as the old sessions

January 11, 2013 - 2:06 am

Once more unto to the breach, dear friends, once more.

Governance change not the last vote on UMC

January 9, 2013 - 2:04 am

The Clark County Commission’s vote Tuesday will not be the vote that saves University Medical Center.

Changes to coroner’s inquest process leave jury verdicts behind

January 8, 2013 - 2:03 am

Harry Reid’s very bad week

January 6, 2013 - 2:06 am

The first week of 2013 wasn’t exactly the best for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Moderate gun control is all we can hope for

January 4, 2013 - 2:08 am

Let me begin with a bold assumption: If the thunderous voice of God himself, clothed in smoke and fire from atop Mount Sinai, commanding “thou shalt do no murder,” is not enough to stay the hand of human evil, then a law passed by the United States Congress isn’t going to do the trick.

A year in quotes

December 16, 2012 - 2:08 am

In the political year about to pass into history, there were literally hundreds of memorable things said. Today, I take a look back at the year that was through the prism of a select few of those remarks.

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