Opinion

We are not living in a free, safe society anymore

For only being in office for about a month, President Biden has already signed more executive orders in that time than the same time frame for the three previous Presidents. Unfortunately, many of them seem to damage rural communities. I guess that should not be a surprise as he only won 17% of Counties in the last election and the vast majority of those are rural.

The tricky part of impeachment is not to appear political

The renaming of McCarran International Airport by a unanimous, all-Democratic Clark County Commission, was a triumph of political juice over public will.

All county and town government buildings and facilities will have their flags at half-staff through Friday at sunset in remembrance of the 500,000 American lives lost to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, Nye County stated on Facebook on Monday.

Reader believes writer of letter to editor is out to lunch

Nevada Supreme Court justices want the legislature to give judges a $30,000 raise. No thanks.

It looks like the politicians in Washington might try to get something done to help businesses and individuals hurt by the pandemic shutdown. After spending the first weeks of the 117th session on partisan politics in Washington, the House has finally taken up a third stimulus package proposal.

The current debate over the child tax credit highlights a philosophical rift among Republicans.

Emperor Sisolak spoke to his subjects on Feb. 11 at 4 p.m. and gave them the good news. Starting on Monday limits on occupancy will be raised to 35% and (if we are good boys and girls) on March 15, a full year after he told us it would only be two weeks of shutdowns, he will “allow” 50%.