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It seems the narrative is, “if you can afford solar power you must be rich, so you can pay more too.”

EDITORIAL: Convicted Pahrump JP still wants her paycheck

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.

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The most dangerous lies are the lies we tell ourselves and all the ways we look to justify them.

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I am happy that the election campaigning is over, but most of all the absence of political ads from both parties, blatantly lying about their opponents.

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Taking a hike on the Red Rock Discovery Trail

A challenge of the holidays is finding activities to entertain out-of-town visitors or easily-bored children. An easy answer might be a winter visit to one of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area’s multitude of trails.

Myers: Trump changes journalism

In the 1950s when U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy and other legislators, including Nevada’s Pat McCarran, spread stories of communists in government, journalism was their unwitting ally.

Veterans Reporter: Landmines, buried unexploded munitions at highest point in decade

The Department of Veterans Affairs clinic that recently opened here in Pahrump was a welcome addition to the town for veterans and their families who have been wounded or otherwise need medical care. I was at the ribbon cutting for the original clinic years ago, and that was greeted with open arms. But with the advent of the Middle East wars, it soon became overwhelmed with patients.

Myers: Nevadans challenge authority

Each election I collect campaign materials from around Nevada and elsewhere. It helps to stay up on the techniques employed in them. I save television spots, leaflets, whatever. I send out requests to friends to save me their campaign mail pieces from the last couple of weeks of each campaign.

Policinski: Free press future: Back to the ‘basics’ in a new way

There’s no one “key” to why so many believe that journalists missed the rise and election of Donald Trump as president — and that’s a good thing to keep in mind for the future.

Knapp: Will Trump roll back net neutrality?

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will appoint a new Federal Communications Commission chair in January. That chair will likely be inclined to undo the FCC’s 2015 “Net Neutrality” power grab and, to at least some degree, let markets settle how bandwidth gets priced and who pays.

Why did Heck lose?

It was clear from the start that the 2016 race for U.S. Senate was going to be close.

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Letters to the Editor

It seems the narrative is, “if you can afford solar power you must be rich, so you can pay more too.”