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OPINION: Nevada’s US Senate Candidates Must Commit to Protecting Social Security

September 16, 2024 7:59 amSeptember 16, 2024 10:55 am

Nevada’s high-stakes Senate race is getting hotter than our state’s trademark desert sun, and the competition will only get fiercer as Election Day in November approaches. Army veteran Sam Brown is set to take on incumbent Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen after winning out over a sizable list of rivals in...

A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Funded Group Health Insurance

August 30, 2024 12:36 pmAugust 30, 2024 2:29 pm

Self-funded group health insurance is an arrangement in which an employer assumes the financial risk of providing health care benefits to its employees. Instead of paying a fixed premium to an insurance carrier, the employer pays out-of-pocket for each claim as it is incurred. This model can offer significant savings...

OPINION: Congress Should Reform PBMs to Lower Costs, Improve Access for Patients

August 28, 2024 4:21 pm

Patients living with multiple sclerosis (MS) and a range of other chronic diseases often face exorbitantly high medical costs that can make it more challenging to access the prescription medications, therapies, and other treatments they need to manage and control their symptoms and side effects. Profit-driven policies put in place...

OPINION: The Washoe County CARES Campus Is A Top-To-Bottom Fraud and Failure

August 20, 2024 12:01 pmAugust 21, 2024 4:34 pm

The Washoe County CARES Campus (WCCC), is the public agency tasked with solving our county’s homeless problem. It is a top-to-bottom fraud and failure. Aiding the destruction of many lives it purports to help, it has made our county’s homeless problem exponentially worse. From 2017 to 2024, metropolitan Reno’s general...

OPINION: Fighting Fire With Fire: The Demise of Prometheus

August 17, 2024 1:43 pmAugust 19, 2024 12:53 pm

As the wildfire crisis in the American West reaches a tipping point, it’s time for a candid conversation about the role of federal agencies in managing forests and fighting this plague of devastating fires. LAKE TAHOE, NV. As the American West grapples with an unprecedented wildfire crisis, a sobering reality...

OPINION: ‘No Tax On Tips’ Is Suddenly Popular With the Tax-And-Spend Democrats

August 16, 2024 3:48 pmAugust 17, 2024 1:44 pm

“No tax on tips. All of a sudden, out of the blue,” said President Trump during a press conference yesterday at his property at Bedminster, New Jersey. He was, of course, referring to his November opponent stealing his groundbreaking, populist policy proposal: workers won’t be taxed on the tips they...

OPINION: No Trust In Biden’s Antitrust Lawsuits

August 12, 2024 1:48 pmAugust 13, 2024 11:11 am

If you look at the entire Las Vegas Valley’s quantity of Amazon packages at each households’ doorsteps, I think our house would easily be in the top five. There is an Amazon package, or two, at our door every day. While this used to bother me, as the saying goes:...