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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:...

OPINION: Protect Nevada Businesses, Protect the ERC

August 9, 2024 4:22 pm

In the mosaic of domestic economic vitality, American businesses are the mortar holding our country together. Small businesses, in particular, are responsible for two-thirds of all newly created U.S. jobs, yet they are the most vulnerable to economic shifts and have faced unprecedented challenges in recent years – from lingering...

OPINION: Voters Deserve Better Verification of A Candidate’s Credentials And Background

August 8, 2024 3:50 pmAugust 8, 2024 1:52 pm

Running for governor doesn’t require a background check, but working for the governor does. In the past couple of years, I’ve spoken with hundreds of voters in Nevada and more than 90 percent of them believe that background checks are conducted on political candidates. This is not true. Not only...

Freedom is Disagreement: Recap of FreedomFest ’24

August 4, 2024 2:05 pmAugust 7, 2024 12:20 pm

The United States of America has historically been associated with the ideal of freedom. But in recent years, the popularity of freedom seems to be declining. Freedom of speech, we are told, is “dangerous” because it leads to “disinformation.” Many people disagree, yet they are concerned about political polarization. People...