Steven Miller
Waaay out of touch
One of the most important, interesting and yet virtually unreported news stories of the raucous 2003 Legislature was the unanimous lockstep effort of Assembly Democrats to cut the heart out of Nevada’s right-to-work law.
The Bush-obsessed impeach ... themselves
For an entire year, leftist opponents of the war in Iraq have been contending that, because “no weapons of mass destruction have been found,” the American President must have “lied.”
Chain Gang Education
Nevadans across the political spectrum do agree on at least one thing: their dissatisfaction with the state’s educational system.
The More Things Change...
Ten years ago John Cummings—then boss of the state teacher union—was front-page news in Nevada: He had been the 1993 Legislature’s highest-spending lobbyist.
The Nevada State Lemon Association
Say you bought a car, and it turned out to be a lemon. Despite your fondest hopes, and no matter how many times you took it back to the car company, the company just couldn’t—or wouldn’t—fix it.
Flat-Earth Barristers
Among all the American jokes at the expense of lawyers and politicians is one so deftly on-target that even lawyers and politicians, long ago, made its punch line part of their idiom.
The New American Socialism
Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman makes a powerful case that the United States today is at least 50 percent socialist.
Mere Subjects
"All politics is local,” the late Tip O’Neil, speaker of the US House of Representatives, used to tell young congressmen.
The Root of the Problem
Often in the news over the last several years has been the high proportion of Nevada high school graduates who, on entering college, are found to lack basic reading and math skills.
