A matter of discipline
With an estimated 345,000 revelers shuffling in and out of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway during the June 8-10 edition of Electric Daisy Carnival, unhindered by the collective paranoia of last year’s...
View ArticleFinally, a good border wall!
Living next to crazy people takes vigilance. Which brings us, as talk of crazy people often does, to Arizona. We worry that spoors of the Crackpot State’s idiocy will drift over here again (recall how...
View ArticlePay no attention to the billionaire behind the curtain
Work. Get a house, a car, health insurance, some vacation time, and a reasonable measure of financial security so you won’t be poor when you’re a geezer.Those are, or were, the modest and unremarkable...
View ArticleAll the lobbyist jobs must’ve been filled
This being Primary Election week, I know the question burning in the bosoms of Nevada voters everywhere: Is there life after politics? As it turns out, the answer is, yeah, maybe.I base my premature...
View ArticleLaw and new orders
These must be especially trying times if you’re a cop, what with all the old certainties falling away. This week, Sheriff Doug Gillespie announced a new use-of-force policy that, according to the R-J,...
View ArticleBeen down so long it looks like up to me
It’s hard enough being a Las Vegan — the traffic, the heat, the even hotter heat — without throwing voodoo math into it. But if you’re a regular person following the news, trying to figure out which...
View ArticlePinocchio: “My nose! What’s happened?”
The Blue Fairy: “Perhaps you haven’t been telling the truth.” Pinocchio: “Oh, but I have, every single word!” Good thing the Blue Fairy wasn’t auditing Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican convention....
View ArticleColumnist George Knapp: complaints by Boulder City police chief shake up...
For seven years, Boulder City police chief Thomas Finn has done a pretty good job of maintaining the peace in his green, clean, and mostly quiet community. But kiss the peace goodbye. Finn has just...
View ArticleColumnist Hugh Jackson: While Kihuen and legislative Dems dithered,...
Nevada’s Legislature had 40 days to either enact or reject the business tax that teachers have qualified to put on the ballot in 2014. That deadline came and went last week, and underscoring why...
View ArticleEditorial Cartoon
The 9 p.m. downtown curfew is designed to “protect our most innocent from the potential of violence, and other bad things.”
View ArticleNorth Las Vegas pushed to the wall
Back in 2006, when times were rosier and any inkling of a catastrophic economic downturn was just peeking through on the horizon, I did an article about the economic growth plans of the city of North...
View ArticleSNARK WEEK, OCT. 17, 2013
PUTTING THE FUN IN “FUTBOL!”What the Reids want, the Reids get, in this case soccer field priority for Key Reid (son of Harry) and his nonprofit Southern Nevada Soccer Association. That has some noses...
View ArticleOPEN LETTER
It is a weird and exciting time to live and work downtown, is it not, my friend the pomegranate tree? I would say “little” again, but you are fine sturdy fellow, if a little on the short side, managing...
View ArticleSNARK WEEK, OCT. 24
HECK’S HEDGE BETRepublican Rep. Joe Heck broke ranks with his GOP bretheren from Nevada in voting to end the government shutdown last week. It doesn’t take someone with an advanced poli-sci degree to...
View ArticleMaybe the right festival at the right time, finally
Unless you’ve been in prison or in a coma, you are probably aware that a huge music festival was held in downtown Las Vegas, luring what organizers claim was 60,000 people for the two-day festival.If...
View ArticleTO MY LADY FRIENDS
We have suffered a series of loss recently in Nevada. In the space of just a month, three women who were smart, brave and caring left us. Peggy Pierce, a tireless assemblywoman, Sierra Club and labor...
View ArticleTO THOSE WHO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS
To those who Support the Troops:It’s Veterans Day this Monday, and we debated writing this open letter.
View ArticleSNARK WEEK, NOV. 7
GOV’T LOVES TO PARTY IN VEGASCalifornia state Sen. Ronald S. Calderon seems to have set up a satellite office here in Las Vegas to host staff retreats, relax in luxury hotels and raise money during...
View ArticleA MIDDLE PATH TO TOMORROW Accept all perspectives as sincere
Political gridlock. Culture wars. Deeply ingrained differences that divide people on everything from education and the environment to marriage and reproductive rights. It’s fine and good to believe...
View ArticleSNARK WEEK
Former President Bill Clinton, who helped sell the Affordable Care Act to the public, broke with President Obama just a bit recently, saying the incumbent should “honor the commitment that the federal...
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