Gov. Brian Sandoval was a featured speaker at the Veterans Day ceremony held at the state veterans home in Boulder City Nov. 11. It’s not the first time he’s been there, done that. But I thought it was of important significance that he told the audience of veterans and families that he intends to make Nevada the nation’s most friendly state for veterans and active duty military.
OK, so I was in the shower singing “Candle in the Wind,” Elton John’s award-winning tribute to the late Marilyn Monroe.
A couple of years ago I received a news release from the University of Nevada, Reno about the activities of a group of students who called themselves Team Nevada. They were working on genetically altered rice to provide nutrients to the malnourished.
Forget about drought and an eventual drop in mineral prices. They’re nothing compared to this.
I am quickly learning the opinion of Yucca Mountain depends greatly on which side of the Spring Mountains one lives.
In 2010, because the views of Republican Sharron Angle on church/state relations had become an issue in Nevada’s U.S. senate campaign, I wrote a cover story about the issue as it affected her race against Democrat Harry Reid, who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Ah, how fleeting glory. Seems like only six short years ago that liberals were doing the Snoopy dance and declaring conservatism dead, dead, dead!
