Victor Joecks’ column appears in the Opinion section each Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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The residents of Las Vegas’ Ward 3 aren’t thinking about the development issues surrounding the Badlands golf course. They do, however, want more neighborhood police patrols to increase public safety. That’s according to former Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz who’s running for the Ward 3 city council seat.
It’s a lot harder to attack your legislative allies than your enemies. Just ask the Nevada State Education Association.
Las Vegas Metro has implemented a new sanctuary policy. It might be what keeps Nevada from becoming a sanctuary state.
Faced with a difficult question about the background check bill, a lawyer for Everytown for Gun Safety recommended violating federal law.
The background check bill currently being rushed through the Nevada legislature isn’t the same as the background check initiative voters passed in 2016, according to Dan Reid, western director of the National Rifle Association.
It says something about the popularity of your proposal when you’re desperate to hide it from the public. That’s what legislative Democrats did with a bill requiring background checks on private-party gun sales.
Democrats have rediscovered the virtues of due process. All it took was a woman accusing one of their rising political stars of sexual misconduct.
The Federal Reserve looked recently at Nevada’s pension system. The results are terrifying. It found that Nevada’s Public Employees’ Retirement System has an unfunded liability of $43.3 billion in 2016.
Some Nevada Democrats aren’t satisfied with having a Democrat governor and large legislative majorities. They also want to ignore the constitution to make it easier to raise taxes.
The United States is one of only seven countries in the world that allow elective abortions after 20 weeks, but that’s not enough for Democrats.
Assembly Republican leader Jim Wheeler has an unusual strategy for being in the minority: preemptive surrender.
Laborers Local 872 wants to recall Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Seroka over his opposition to development at the Badlands Golf Course.
Over the next two years, Gov. Steve Sisolak plans to gut and eliminate Brian Sandoval’s major education reforms. It’s all to benefit the government unions who backed his campaign.
A Clark County School District principal wants kindergarteners to think about if they’re transgender.
If the economy doesn’t stay strong, Gov. Steve Sisolak’s budget will soon look short sighted.
