In May 2008, Gov. Jim Gibbons, preparing wisely for worst case economic conditions, put together a bipartisan team of 14 senior business leaders: seven Democrats and seven Republicans.
“Conflict of interest: The circumstance of a public official whose private financial interests might benefit from his or her official votes or actions.” In the Nevada Assembly, 45 percent of the m...
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. The real root of Nevada’s budget crisis is, paradoxically, the prosperity of the last decade. As the economy, fueled by artifi...
Hard to believe, but here in the Wild West mustangs once made money. But, the old time mustangers were “cruel.” They used motorized vehicles; they would kill the sick and lame ones; they used the g...
When my friend and fellow conservative Don Gustavson, Assemblyman from District 32, announced he was seeking the same Senate seat I’m interested in, I had to do some reassessing.
“Methinks the lady doth protest too much.” Shakespeare’s observation of hollow concern speaks volumes about modern American race relations. Chris Matthews, a liberal Democrat to the core, is the ...
The stunning upset victory of Republican Scott Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley in ultra-liberal Massachusetts has serious repercussions for far-away Nevada.
Tired of bad news? I listened to National Public Radio, the government subsidized newspeak outlet – and man, my whole perspective changed! The glass is not half empty, it’s half full! Economic news...
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked on now. At this late date [1968] noth...
Thanks to “intelligent design,” the effort to show a guiding hand behind biological evolution, the great debate over the origin of life is again front-page news. For me, I reject “intelligent desi...
First, some sad news: Robert “Pat” Patnaude, the highly decorated Sparks war veteran I wrote about on Nov. 8, died on Wednesday. He was 75. When I interviewed Pat he was in poor condition from sev...
Scheels All-Sports ran a nice big half page ad last year at this time here in the Tribune, quoting Lincoln extensively about our nation’s obligations to God.