Opinion Columns

No free money

As he contemplates whether to expand Nevada’s Medicaid program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Gov. Brian Sandoval is getting lots of free advice from his Democratic friends.

Naysaying Republicans to middle class: Drop dead

July 27, 2012 - 1:07 am

Republicans don’t care about the middle class, and if they can’t deliver tax cuts to their wealthy friends and benefactors, then nobody gets relief.

Is the Grim Reaper a conservative or a liberal?

July 25, 2012 - 1:07 am

I turned on the car radio Monday morning just in time to hear Rush Limbaugh reporting that the gossip website TMZ.com was reporting that the Match.com profile of Aurora, Colo., shooting suspect James Holmes listed him as “middle of the road” when it comes to politics.

Forget the blame and focus on the promise of green energy

July 24, 2012 - 1:04 am

As news broke last week that the Amonix solar panel manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas would close, political campaigns jumped into action.

Doing the minimum on campaign finance reform

July 20, 2012 - 1:17 am

Reid unlikely reformer of Senate filibuster

July 18, 2012 - 1:02 am

Nevada sits out biggest day for marijuana

July 17, 2012 - 1:06 am

Rethinking renaming

July 15, 2012 - 1:04 am

Fighting, and losing, the battles of yesterday

July 13, 2012 - 1:43 am

Let me see if I have this right: Mitt Romney tells everybody who will stand still for a few minutes that he’s against the government giving away “free stuff.” He did it most recently Wednesday evening to an audience in Montana.

No reason to outsource the truth in ads

July 11, 2012 - 1:04 am

The second-best news for Shelley Berkley?

July 10, 2012 - 1:12 am

Good luck, Tick!

July 8, 2012 - 1:03 am

It’s bill-writing time! While it seems like just yesterday the 2011 Legislature adjourned, it’s already time for the intrepid Legislative Counsel Bureau to start posting the requests lawmakers and committees have made for new laws to be considered during the 2013 session.

Two decades for an interstate? Nuts to that!

July 6, 2012 - 1:01 am

It took the United States and its allies less than four years to win World War II.

What do I really want our country to be?

July 4, 2012 - 1:05 am

Recently on Facebook, I noticed a post from a conservative friend: “I would like someone out there to ask an ACLU-loving, radical liberal what they [sic] really want our country to be. It would be very interesting to hear it from their own lips what their twisted view of freedom is!”

Rep. Joe Heck’s answer to high court’s ‘stolen valor’ ruling

July 3, 2012 - 1:00 am

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