With her legislative experience and Washington contacts, Berkley appears well-positioned not only to raise the mayor’s profile, but also its impact on the complex issues facing Las Vegas and other metro areas.

While this is good news for those of us who believe such schemes are bad deals for taxpayers, don’t expect the issue to disappear entirely. It’s unlikely that Hollywood will write Nevada off as a lost cause.

Nevada’s public colleges and universities remain among the most affordable in the country. Adjusting tuition and fees modestly will maintain that affordability while ensuring that we can continue to deliver the quality education Nevada students deserve.

John Oliver made the same argument in an episode about special districts for Last Week Tonight nearly a decade ago. Every argument made in that episode in 2016 holds up just as well today.

Having sold my car more than six years ago, I relish the joy of being in the fresh air instead of encased in thousands of pounds of hermetically sealed plastic, glass and metal. E-bike commuting has been liberating and joyful!

Critics can save their talking points about free markets. Nevada’s housing market isn’t free, it’s rigged. Without meaningful protections, the housing market will remain a hustle in real time.

To the politicians who are eager to please powerful lobbying groups or cozy up to politically favored industries, what’s a few million dollars of poorly spent tax dollars in exchange for a few photo ops? 

In short, a bipartisan majority of senators would rather keep the power to frustrate objectionable legislation as an otherwise powerless minority than exercise the power to pass legislation as a simple majority.

The event was our most successful IndyFest yet, despite the three Democratic elected officials who committed to participate and then abruptly pulled out.

Those who expected more from Rosen have a right to be disappointed and should let her know about it. It’s easy to accuse her of a calculated act of self-preservation, but that’s no sin in politics. Her predecessors made long careers out of it. 

The pandemic showed us the danger of relying on a single industry. The images of an empty Strip in 2020 still linger. We said we'd learn from that experience. The creation of Summerlin Studios is one way to prove we mean it.

What Democratic insiders and partisan loyalists saw as leverage, the rest of us saw as delayed or canceled flights, unpaid bills, missed paychecks, empty grocery carts and hungry children. 

Trump’s alarmist rhetoric is nothing new. He is, after all, the king of chaos. But this hits particularly close to home in Nevada, which has played an integral role in nuclear weapons testing.

For those of us living next to the most-nuked patch of ground on Earth, that should raise a few red flags — especially because such testing doesn’t seem even remotely required to ensure nuclear capability today.

I’ve had a couple of vaccine-deniers with professional programming experience tell me they could evaluate double-blind study data better than the “corrupt lying” scientists who work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Voters shouldn’t be expected to know what a television or swimming pool district is, much less pay five people between $9,000 and $14,000 per year to run one, nor should they require each district to create its own websites at additional expense.

Progressive candidates spend a lot of time talking about wealth taxes and health care reform without realizing that legislating on behalf of regular people is impossible in a system as heavily skewed as ours.

Most suppression motions don’t go far, but it begs an interesting question: Nearly 30 years after the murder, was there really a need to search the house just before 10 p.m.? What was the rush?

With mere days remaining, there was only one piece of technology that might still provide a breath of hope for those who saw Nevada as a path to ensure a Republican victory over the issue of slavery: the telegraph. 

Georgia has become utterly fixated on one way to boost its economy: The film tax credit is now our largest corporate tax incentive, expanding over time to compete with 38 other states that have enacted their own credits.