Las Vegas Metro has implemented a new sanctuary policy. It might be what keeps Nevada from becoming a sanctuary state.
Victor Joecks
Columnist
Email: vjoecks@reviewjournal.com
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Victor Joecks is a Review-Journal columnist who explores and explains policy issues three days a week in the Opinion section. Previously he served as the executive vice president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute. Victor is also a staff sergeant in Nevada National Guard. Originally from Washington state, Victor received his bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College.
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.
The White House is committed to the shutdown fight, but missing out on delivering the State of the Union would pain President Donald Trump. One of Trump’s 2020 challengers, Sen. Kamala Harris, is a flawed presidential candidate. That’s all according to Debra Saunders, the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s White House correspondent.
Not every journalist is a liberal hack, but conservatives are right to regard every national mainstream media outlet suspiciously. Just look at what happened last weekend.
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One of Strip’s most famous restaurants closing after nearly 26 years
Those wolves that were seen in Nevada? They weren’t wolves
Death Valley mystery solved: Officials know who knocked over tower
Mirage, a landmark Strip resort, prepares to vanish
$200K video poker jackpot hits at west Las Vegas Valley casino