Movies that pretend to be set in Elko often have scenes bearing no resemblance to northeastern Nevada, as mentioned in my article titled “Elko…
The retrial of four defendants in the 2014 Bunkerville standoff at the Bundy ranch got underway this past week in Las Vegas, and this time the…
As a senior member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and representative of more than 300,000 veterans living in Nevada, I am a…
In his book “The Secret War,” British historian Max Hastings describes the different ways that dictatorships and democracies regard intelligen…
The Nevada State Water Engineer’s office recently contacted Nevada Farm Bureau regarding the administrative rulemaking process that is underwa…
WASHINGTON — The Russia scandal has entered a new phase and there’s no going back.
The Colorado River, one of the longest rivers in the United States, is gradually shrinking. This is partly a result of overuse by municipaliti…
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Consumers have benefited for decades from the presence of Open Skies agreements that lessen government interference in the market for internat…
There’s a perception out there that Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak, now running for the Democrat Party’s nomination for Nevada govern…
Like so many of us in rural Nevada, I was pleased to see Senator Heller reject the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). When his colleagues …
The California Department of Public Health has just released a report that detailed the number of terminally ill patients over the past year w…
President Donald Trump drives people crazy.
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President Trump’s performance at the G-20 summit in Germany produced a wave of commentary claiming the United States has abdicated its role as…
The Senate negotiations that resume this week on the overhaul of the health care system are about many things — Medicaid spending levels, taxe…
North Korea’s successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), allegedly with the capability to hit Alaska, is the latest in a…
It’s hard to make sense of cannabis regulation.
With Independence Day now in our rearview mirror, it’s time to look ahead to the 2018 race to replace tax-hiking/ESA-killing/Medicaid-expandin…
WASHINGTON — Across 25 years and five administrations, we have kicked the North Korean can down the road. We are now out of road.
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On June 30 Nevada ended its 2017 fiscal year, and we observed yet again one of the more annoying problems in state government: the annual last…
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Why are Republicans on Capitol Hill having so much trouble repealing and replacing Obamacare? There are reasons all over the place: subsidies,…
