Opinion

This is Part 7 of our 10-part series, “Lombardo’s Nevada Showdown: The Fight for 2026.” The crunch: Affordability’s tanked, with rents soaring and federal lands locked up, hitting young families hard. Battle lines drawn as Lombardo’s 2025 initiatives for attainable housing, per his session statement on gov.nv.gov, clashed with enviro regs,...

This is Part 5 of our 10-part series, “Lombardo’s Nevada Showdown: The Fight for 2026.” Dilemma alert: Nevada ranks near the bottom in K-12 performance, with reading scores lagging and teacher shortages rampant. Friction mounts as Lombardo backed Trump-era school choice expansions in March 2025, per his office’s press release,...

Do 40-to-75% of Washoe County School District’s secondary school students actually use drugs on campus every day? Without exception, that’s what numerous parents, students, and staff members at over half of all WCSD secondary schools  have reported to the Education Crusade organization for years. How have WCSD Superintendents and School Board members...

This is Part 2 of our 10-part series, “Lombardo’s Nevada Showdown: The Fight for 2026.” Here’s the mess: Nevada’s legislature, stacked with Democrats, pushed through bills that could balloon spending and erode local control, like a bipartisan ballot drop-box measure that critics say invites fraud. The clash peaked when Lombardo...

This is Part 1 of our 10-part series, “Lombardo’s Nevada Showdown: The Fight for 2026.” Nevada’s got a problem, folks: after flipping the governor’s seat in 2022, we’re staring down a toss-up race in 2026 where voters are split on whether the state’s heading in the right direction, with economic...