Opinion

The Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities is a research organization that works to inform the public on issues that confront the state. It is relatively new, and 2016 was the first election in which it had a prominent role. Much of its work was useful. It could have been better.

The Hill reports that capital punishment is fading away in America.

Nevada lags significantly behind all other states in the number of established wineries and vineyards. Statistically, we are near the bottom for number of wineries in the United States and dead last compared to all Western states.

“Breathing space” remains one of the most important concepts in First Amendment phraseology and jurisprudence.

The body of the 2016 election cycle wasn’t even cold before Republicans with gubernatorial visions dancing in their heads started testing the 2018 waters in Nevada.

It’s popular in some politicized evangelical Christian circles (that is, among the American “religious right”) to spend every December moaning about a “war on Christmas.” Unless they get to fill the commons with their religious displays — and theirs only — and unless the cup from their preferred coffee vendor refers to their religious holiday — and theirs only — and so on and so forth, they consider themselves beset by the forces of evil.

The Ms. Senior Nye County Pageant family and Nye County Starlets wish to take this opportunity to thank all of the individuals who helped to make our recent Holiday Showcase Benefit for our local Alzheimer’s Association, Desert Southwest Chapter, a success.

After the 1960 election, there was a lot of talk about how the Chicago machine stole the Illinois vote for John Kennedy against Richard Nixon.

Here it is December 12th and not too much has been done on the roundabouts since mid-October except messed up traffic.