You can tell that unions offer an inferior product by the hurdles they put in place to keep members from leaving.
Opinion
To the editor:
When the state’s economy needs a shot in the arm, Nevadans can always count on California to ride to the rescue. The Golden State’s Marxist lawmakers have put ever-increasing tax and regulatory burdens on industry, chasing scores of employers to the more business-friendly confines of Nevada. But come Nov. 4, it’s California’s voters who might deliver the coup de grace to their ranching industry — and help diversify Nevada’s economy in the process.
Would the IRS encourage people of undetermined backgrounds to stand outside shopping malls and grocery stores and offer to mail residents’ completed tax returns just weeks before the filing deadline? Would the DMV want these same people to set up camp in front of libraries and post offices and hand out change-of-address forms, then offer to submit them to the state, as required by law?
Should you be punished for paying your own way and deciding not to participate in a government program?
It’s going to take a lot more than an extended economic slump to sully Nevada’s long-term prospects. State Demographer Jeff Hardcastle issued his population projections for the next two decades, and the forecast calls for growth that will continue to outpace the country’s.
ACORN’s sophomoric attempts at voter registration fraud have been festering in Las Vegas for months. The noise finally got so loud that Secretary of State Ross Miller had no choice but to raid the nonprofit.
Tuesday night’s supposedly “town-hall-style” presidential debate was close enough to a tie to represent a missed opportunity for Republican John McCain to reverse Democrat Barack Obama’s current surge in the polls.
Congress lards up every appropriations bill with treats for campaign donors, favored constituencies and special interests — federal lawmakers managed to pack more than 400 pages worth of goodies into last week’s $700 billion economic rescue package, and no member of either party could have possibly known every detail of the bailout bill.
Thanks to Karl Rove, American politics are once again focusing on numbers.
Congressional passage Friday of a $700 billion bailout for the financial sector has yet to impress Wall Street.
Las Vegas is now part of an unfortunate club. It’s one of many cities where a viral video has been shot revealing the ruinous results of soft-on-crime policies embraced by Democrats.
CRT adherents don’t see two individuals, they see two representatives of their class. Deobra Redden is Black, so he’s oppressed. Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who’s white, is the oppressor.
As many as 26 percent of American adults — more than 1 in 4 — have some type of disability.
A new Review-Journal feature called “What Are They Hiding?” will spotlight all the bad-faith ways Nevada governments hide public records from taxpayers.
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