It was habit, not heroism, that caused Justin Pearson to grab his gun. But seconds later, that weapon enabled Pearson to stop a kidnapping taking place just outside his Las Vegas home on Oct. 5.
Victor Joecks
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Hillary Clinton’s former campaign lawyer is meddling in Nevada politics. Worse, he’s saying that voting in a special election would be an “undue burden” on minorities.
Local investors bought the Las Vegas 51s , a minor league baseball team, for $20 million in 2013. On Tuesday, the LVCVA paid $80 million for 20 years of naming rights for a new 51s stadium in Summerlin. Anyone see a disconnect?
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s recent attack on Attorney General Adam Laxalt for Laxalt’s opposition to the commerce tax was both dishonest and desperate.
A liberal, pro-gun control senator from California just offered much-needed perspective on the Las Vegas Strip shooting. Gun-rights supporters couldn’t have said it better if they tried.
Nevada’s Public Employees Retirement System has just spent your money to make sure you have a better opinion of the … Public Employees Retirement System.
If “Read by Three” had been in effect last year, more than 10,000 of this year’s fourth-graders might still be in third grade.
Out-of-state gun grabbers should be ashamed of themselves — and they should learn common decency from Nevada’s Republicans and Democrats.
If Democrats could build a 2020 presidential candidate from scratch, here’s what he’d look like.
Sen. Dean Heller has a primary problem, and his name is Danny Tarkanian.
As a Las Vegas resident, you have a rooting interest in a quick resolution to NFL players kneeling for the national anthem.
Health sharing provides several options for those seeking an alternative to Obamacare’s soaring premiums and deductibles.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is wasting tax dollars. The question now is whether anyone with any power is going to do anything about it.
If Democrats take full control of state government in 2019, Nevada will become California — without the beaches. That’s why Republicans are trying to recall three state senators.
If Nevada taxpayers had to pay the full cost of the Medicaid expansion, it’d have less support than Harry Reid running for president of a Republican women’s club.
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