It can be rather entertaining to watch titans grapple for power — unless they are doing it in your backyard and you can be trampled. The titans in this case are billionaires Warren Buffett, whose companies own Nevada’s largest electricity provider NV Energy, and Elon Musk, chairman of SolarCity, which installs rooftop solar panels that allow customers to purchase less … [Read more...]
Test results reveal 90 percent of Nevada high schoolers unprepared for college
The Nevada Department of Education is reporting that 90 percent of state high school juniors are not college ready, largely unchanged from the previous year and probably the worst of any state in the nation, according to the most recent results of ACT testing. We say probably because the nationwide results will not be released for another month, but ACT test results across … [Read more...]
Jewell Feels a Drop of Rain and Declares Sky is Falling
Earlier this year Interior Secretary Sally Jewell delivered what could best be described as a doom and gloom speech about the state of disappearing “natural” lands in this country, primarily the West. She claimed there is an “emergence of an extreme movement to seize public lands — from Oregon to Puerto Rico — putting lands that belong to all Americans at risk of being … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Right to Expedite Education Savings Account Hearing
There is a reason the courts routinely expedite cases involving children. If the cases were handled in the usual mañana fashion the children would have children of their own by the time the case is resolved. The state Supreme Court has rightly refused an effort by the American Civil Liberties Union to further delay the hearing of its suit to block enactment of the education … [Read more...]
Efforts to Save Endangered Species can be Counterproductive
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. In 1973, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA), intending to protect the likes of eagles and grizzlies and bison. Instead it has been used by federal bureaucrats to label as endangered or threatened all manner of bugs, weeds, reptiles and minnows — … [Read more...]
Selective Dudgeon by Environmentalists Over Use of National Monument Land
This is why they are called spoilsports. A group calling itself Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is raising a ruckus over plans by the Bureau of Land Management to route a portion of a desert race from Las Vegas to Reno through a short span of the newly minted 700,000-acre Basin and Range National Monument. The race, called the General Tire Las Vegas to Reno … [Read more...]
Heck considered front-runner for GOP nomination
The race to become the Republican nominee to fill the Nevada U.S. Senate seat that has been held by Harry Reid for 30 years features an incumbent congressman, the woman Reid defeated in the 2010 election and what can best be described as seven others. Early voting is about to start and the primary election day is June 14. Three-term congressman for southern Clark County, … [Read more...]
Nevada’s rural congressmen chip away at federal lands
Nevada’s congressional representatives who represent the state’s rural communities continue to chip away at the massive federal public lands under the control of various federal agencies in an effort to aid economic development and recreational opportunities. Both managed to get bills passed out of the House this past week. Republican Rep. Cresent Hardy of Mesquite saw … [Read more...]