PREMIUM PALS: BUTTIGIEG TO FUNDRAISE FOR TBT AFTER BOTH BACKED TRANS INSURANCE MANDATES

Former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is returning to Reno to help Teresa Benitez-Thompson raise campaign cash, putting one of their most expensive shared policy positions back in the spotlight: using government to make health insurers cover gender-transition treatments and leaving consumers and taxpayers to absorb the cost. Buttigieg is...

COUNTER ATTACK: Trump Slaps Tariffs on Quartz Imports Crushing American Manufacturers

President Donald Trump imposed new tariffs on surging imports of quartz surface products Friday, delivering four years of protection to American manufacturers battered by foreign competition. The proclamation follows a United States International Trade Commission investigation that found quartz products were entering the country in such rapidly increasing quantities that...

FROM SCRAP HEAP TO ARSENAL: Trump Moves to Keep Critical Minerals in America

President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act Thursday to help keep recoverable critical minerals inside the United States, striking at America’s dangerous dependence on Communist China while strengthening Nevada’s emerging mine-to-battery industrial base. The presidential determination grants the Secretary of Commerce authority to restrict exports of mineral-rich waste, discarded...

SUPPLY, DEMAND AND DINA’S DENIAL: Titus Scoffs at Link Between Illegal Immigration and Housing

Democrat Rep. Dina Titus attacked Republican challenger Carrie Buck on Tuesday for arguing that immigration enforcement is helping relieve pressure on Southern Nevada’s rental market. In the process, Titus conspicuously erased one critical word from the debate: illegal. “Carrie Buck says deportation of immigrants is driving down housing rental costs in...