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Pharmacy Benefit Managers Impact Healthcare Costs

August 26, 2022 9:41 am

As individuals and families in Nevada ponder the state of the current health care system and its profound impact on their lives, they need to negotiate a dizzying flurry of complex terms, abbreviations, acronyms, and definitions. It’s a headache. So it’s easy to understand how the term PBM could...

Dina Titus Is ‘Ridin’ With Biden’ As Americans And Migrants Suffer

August 4, 2022 8:59 am

A few weeks ago, I was in Washington, DC. Walking along the street that leads to the Nationals’ stadium, I encountered a young mother and her two children (around 4 and 5 years old). They appeared to be undocumented immigrants from Central America lured here by the false promise of...

Governor Sisolak’s Solar Scam

August 3, 2022 8:38 amAugust 3, 2022 9:18 am

Solar energy has its uses. For example, it’s great for spaceships and off-grid houses. But as a method to power the electrical grid, it is a scam. Governor Sisolak has created a “climate strategy” that will squander billions on massive solar infrastructure. The money will be raised from taxes and...

CDC Used Flawed Data To Approve Covid Child Vaccines

June 21, 2022 11:50 amJune 21, 2022 11:53 am

The CDC recently approved Covid vaccines for infants and other children under the age of five. The agency justified this recommendation, in part, by citing flawed data from a pre-print study that dramatically inflated the risk of Covid to kids. Specifically, the study calculated the total number of Covid-related deaths...

Opinion: Let Parents Vote Directly On Education Reform

June 14, 2022 8:02 am

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing while expecting different results, then our approach to education in Nevada is certifiable. One thing nearly every Nevadan agrees on is the dismal state of our current education system. Specifically, the Clark County School District (CCSD), which is the 5th...

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...

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