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Using history to manipulate the public

In November 2011, campus police at the University of California, Davis used pepper spray against seated legal protesters on the campus quad.

Haynes: Without LGBT rights, religious freedom fails

This week Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina scrambled to contain the damage caused by passage of a state law limiting bathroom access for transgender people and eliminating local anti-discrimination ordinances based on sexual orientation.

Hudson: A continuing trend of using the First to interpret the Second

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently used an analogy to First Amendment free-speech law in upholding a Second Amendment challenge and striking down a Maryland law banning semi-automatic rifles and larger-capacity detachable magazines.

Muth: Should the Nevada GOP issue pre-primary endorsements again this year?

Nevada’s 2016 GOP presidential caucus is in the history books. And the various county conventions have concluded. So all that’s left is the Nevada Republican Party convention in Reno next month before voters cast their ballots in the June primary.

Editorial: Is new state law shutting out voters?

Editor’s Note:

This editorial ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday. This issue is one facing voters here in Pahrump and the rest of Nye County in the Nye County Commission District I and District III races where only Republicans filed to run for office.

Letters to the editor

Repealing gas tax would be penny wise and dollar foolish

MYERS: Preparing a lousy future for our children

At the University of Nevada, Reno, in the agriculture building, there is a Natural History Museum. In its collection, there are samples of plant and animal life in the Great Basin dating back to the 1850s. The plants alone include 90,000 specimens.

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