Just like towns, our lives are boom and bust, and this holiday season I’m just thankful for the time that we had together.
Opinion
Dr. Waters does not speak for the majority of military veterans when he disparages Donald Trump.
It seems the narrative is, “if you can afford solar power you must be rich, so you can pay more too.”
Of the 28 entities operating under the Pentagon umbrella, only nine earned a clean audit, according to The Hill.
Michele Fiore is upset that the taxpayers are no longer paying her not to work as a Pahrump justice of the peace. She has only herself to blame.
Philip Rucker and Robert Costa of the Washington Post report that Mitt Romney and other establishment Republicans are unsheathing their threatened final sword: Attempting to put together an “independent” Republican presidential campaign versus GOP nominee-apparent Donald Trump. The draft effort’s reputed short list includes Ohio Governor John Kasich and U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE). Good idea or bad idea? Depends on how one looks at it.
My first encounter with the Pulitzer Prize was on April 18, 1977 at the Nevada Legislature when word arrived that the Nevada State Journal and Reno Evening Gazette (then jointly owned but separate newspapers) had received the award for a series of editorials denouncing a brothel owner that the newspapers had previously built up as a folk hero. The high school-style headline in that evening’s Gazette became a classic: “We win a Pulitzer Prize!”
Two weeks ago, three men assaulted a 19-year-old American Muslim in Astoria, Queens. One suspect shouted “Arab” and punched the victim twice in the face. A second screamed “ISIS” and approached with a metal pipe. When a bystander appeared, the three suspects fled the scene.
I remember being a student playing the game “telephone.” The class of maybe 20 or more would sit in a row and the teacher would whisper a phrase into the first student’s ear. By the time it reaches a few students down, the message has become unrecognizable. By the time it reaches the end, the original message has become fully corrupted.
If any Nevada citizen still harbors any doubt about the wisdom of being able to elect their judges, the recent state Supreme Court decision on the citizen referendum to repeal Gov. Brian Sandoval’s God-awful “commerce tax” should remove it once and for all. To recap…
I recently got my first “smart phone” (I’ve been a late adopter in that particular area of technology).
Earlier this year, at a time when the Democratic National chair had been browbeaten into doubling the number of debates among the presidential candidates from three to six, half of those were scheduled for weekdays and half for weekends (one each on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, two on Saturday).
The rural communities across Nevada are experiencing a new pressure that threatens the very life and health of those who live there.
Just like towns, our lives are boom and bust, and this holiday season I’m just thankful for the time that we had together.
Dr. Waters does not speak for the majority of military veterans when he disparages Donald Trump.
It seems the narrative is, “if you can afford solar power you must be rich, so you can pay more too.”
Of the 28 entities operating under the Pentagon umbrella, only nine earned a clean audit, according to The Hill.
