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Government opting for secrecy over scrutiny

A federal judge last Friday slammed the door on accountability, ruling the federal government could conceal from the public a wide range of evidence in the Cliven Bundy case.

Yucca Mountain is about national security, not state’s rights

On July 7, I had the privilege to represent the Board of County Commissioners at the sub-committee hearing on Energy and Commerce in Washington, D.C. You can view the hearing on YouTube at http://bit.ly/29yvvPc.

Letter to the editor

People’s voices not heard

Myers: If climate change is not stopped

In about 1971 when I was an Army police officer in Germany, I read in Stars and Stripes that a German town was being abandoned because it was polluted beyond saving as a result of the activities of a local business. The inhabitants were being relocated to a new town.

Knapp: Hillary Clinton: More equal under the law than others

In his July 5 press briefing, FBI director James Comey spoke 2,341 words explaining his decision not to recommend criminal charges over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to transmit, receive and store classified information during her tenure as U.S. Secretary of State. He could have named that tune in four words:

Policinski: Let’s keep the Fourth going all year long

The red, white and blue bunting is down, the flags are furled and the last of the fireworks have been sent aloft. And for far too many of us, that surge of patriotic fervor and effort found around July Fourth goes back into metaphorical storage for another year.

Cooperative extension continues offering services

The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension would like the community to know that even though the county has de-funded our portion of the overall county budget, we are going to continue offering some services to Nye County.

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