Opinion Archives - Page 41 of 43

The Henderson Cabal

June 13, 2022 7:24 amJune 13, 2022 7:25 am

The political appointment process in Henderson has been a very convenient and useful tool for Mayor Debra March to make sure her cabal (a secret political clique or faction) secured a seat on the Henderson City Council. The appointment process is a tool to build political power and name ID...

Creating Safe Schools: You’re doing it wrong

June 8, 2022 9:35 amJune 8, 2022 3:05 pm

I waited to write this until the post-Uvalde tidal wave of “How to make schools safer” articles came out. I hoped that at least someone might get it right. They didn’t. Nothing I’ve seen has come close to offering the only solution there is for preventing school violence. There’s a...

A Tradeoff Cancer Patients Can’t Afford

May 13, 2022 11:06 am

As a mother of two young boys, and living with stage four colon cancer, the most important thing for me right now is spending as much time as I can with my husband and sons. I was diagnosed with colon cancer at 42 years old, and the news came out...

OPINION: Veterans Need Innovative Care And Treatment

April 25, 2022 7:33 am

When I returned home after serving in the Vietnam War, I had no idea the atrocities I endured there would impact my health some 50 years later. As a Vietnam veteran and a retired policeman, I am anything but comfortable right now. In the past few years, I have developed...

OPINION: Nevada has overcommitted to solar and wind projects

April 22, 2022 12:08 pm

Friday is Earth Day. So, between its “think globally, act locally” spirit and my long familiarity with energy, water, land-use and public policy matters, some thoughts (non-partisan and driven by science, economics and sound regulation) on Nevada and Western resource and environmental problems. Southwestern water problems are currently most acute,...

OPINION: Strange Bedfellows Will Flip the Senate

April 14, 2022 8:00 amApril 13, 2022 5:54 pm

It’s no secret the GOP has had difficulty winning over women voters. For years, the GOP has relied on winning elections through straight men. Not anymore and certainly not in Nevada. As the sun rises over the primary campaign events now occurring across the Silver State, so has the creation...

Regent Brooks: ‘I am Concerned With The Current Culture in Higher Education’

March 22, 2022 11:05 amMarch 22, 2022 11:55 am

Antisemitism has been around for over three thousand years, and its presence within our communities and on our campuses of higher education isn’t likely to disappear any time soon. A vivid and disheartening recent illustration of this problem was the carving of a swastika in a dorm room door on...