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Public education’s hottest topic is what’s known as the “Southern Surge.”  The term describes the best-in-the-nation academic progress being made for the past 5-10 years by schools in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and other southern states.    Historically, most schools in those states have been bottom-dwellers or close to it...

While rural Nevada hospitals struggle to keep their doors open and families drive hours for basic care, Democrats Dina Titus, Susie Lee, and Steven Horsford once again chose Washington partisanship over the people they represent. All three voted against the largest rural healthcare investment in more than twenty years, a $50...

For years, Washington talked tough about protecting America’s backyard while doing very little actually to secure it. That era is over. In a clear-eyed warning to adversaries and a long-overdue reassurance to American voters, Senator Marco Rubio made it plain: this is our hemisphere, and under President Donald Trump, the United...

In a stunning and historic operation, President Donald Trump authorized decisive U.S. action that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, finally putting an end to years of hand-wringing and excuses from Washington Democrats who refused to confront a narcoterrorist regime poisoning American communities. For years, Maduro ruled...

After years of excuses, chaos, and failed liberal policies, reality is finally punching back. The United States is experiencing the largest one-year drop in homicides on record in 2025, and Nevada is seeing the benefits firsthand as law and order make a long-overdue comeback. Las Vegas law enforcement recently reported roughly a...

Once again, The Nevada Independent is pushing the familiar panic button – this time claiming tariffs “cost Nevada households more than $900 in 2025.” That headline sounds scary. It’s also deeply misleading. Tariffs aren’t a mystery tax dropped from the sky. They’re a strategic economic tool, one this country used for...

A new Wall Street Journal opinion piece lays out something Washington almost never does anymore: a smart rollback of federal micromanagement that helps regular people. The Trump administration’s push to deregulate broadband, led by Commerce Department officials, marks a decisive break from the Biden-era obsession with bureaucracy, delay, and political...