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Politicians lie, but when it comes to the Tax Pledge the numbers don’t

Liberals and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) hate the Taxpayer Protection Pledge with, as Diane Chambers once put it on Cheers, “the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.” And there’s a very good reason for that…

Fireworks safety crucial for a happy Fourth of July

While the fireworks-related injury numbers are down approximately 9 percent and use of consumer fireworks is up by more than 59 percent over the last 20 years, it is still vital that consumers use the utmost caution with the products.

How gays brought us together

Gays did not particularly want a battle over marriage equality.

Doctors, wounded soldiers work to overcome blindness

Last month I initially reported on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs teaming up with the Blinded Veterans Association and other government agencies and medical experts in Denver to discuss traumatic brain injuries and their affect on blindness.

Blame guv, not 120-day session for budget slam-and-jam

Freshman Republican Assemblymen Erv Nelson and Chris Edwards appeared on a local PBS community affairs television show recently and advocated for annual sessions of the Nevada Legislature.

COMMUNITY VIEWPOINT: Stop blaming our commissioners for problems in Pahrump

I continue to hear complaints about the way the Nye County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) are handling the “management” and “operations” within the Town of Pahrump. I will say in this “Open Letter” exactly what I tell the people who complain to me on a continual basis: “STOP BLAMING THE COMMISSIONERS.”

Shoddy speakers damage the language

Recently I was reading an article in the Reno Gazette Journal written by a University of Nevada, Reno business college staffer named Kylie Howe. It began, “I recently had the pleasure of touring Salman Ahmad through the entrepreneurship ecosystem in our very own Biggest Little City.”

Letters to the Editor

Pronounced guilty before the facts are known

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