Some calls are hard, but this one was easy for the council. Reassuring the public that it is making sound decisions based on facts rather than politics is an important part of its job. The council missed a real opportunity to do the right thing.

Supporting school choice does not mean abandoning public education; it means embracing a system that allows competition and innovation to drive improvement. When parents have real choices, all schools — public and private — are incentivized to improve.

Nevada and the Great Basin lost Simeon Herskovits, one of its most passionate and dedicated public interest water attorneys, last week.

You thought that maybe you could get away with saying that criticism of a state, acting in the world among the family of nations, did not equate to blood libel or essentialist hate. You’d figured these were ideas that ... could be voiced in a free society. You were quite wrong.

Returning ballots by Election Day, trimming the excesses of universal vote-by-mail, and adopting voter ID for mail voting would significantly improve Nevada’s elections and finalize election results quicker.

As with those film subsidies elsewhere, however, Nevada’s proposed expansion would effectively be little more than bribery with public dollars. No wonder studios have long committed themselves to pressuring lawmakers for such programs.

Nevada students live in two different worlds: one where students have the opportunity to apply to attend one of 19 high-end magnet high schools, and the other where they are forced to go to class in their centuries-old school with asbestos.

Dane’s venom and robo-dialing thuggery landed him in the middle of an extortion investigation. Ironically, he was upended not by the Democrats he badgered, but by Republicans he thought he could intimidate behind the scenes.

The Medicaid matter is a big problem. A big, big problem. From Gov. Joe Lombardo's perspective, too big a problem to fix at the state level. In a way, he’s right about that.

A web of fees and hidden charges — from commissary markups as much as 35 percent to medical fees incarcerated individuals have no ability to pay — has been designed to extract money from our most vulnerable populations. 

The patient is in charge from the initial request to self-ingestion. They can choose to use it, just not take it or return it. Knowing they have access to this medication gives a sense of peace to people slowly dying from a terminal illness and to their families.

Like all rights, the right to speak or write about someone has never been absolute. If you make something up out of whole cloth about someone, the person you’re lying about has the right to sue you for defamation. 

Lawmakers managed to do something refreshing this past week. They moved with uncommon alacrity to address the state’s ongoing egg shortage by whisking AB171 through the Assembly and Senate in Carson City.

For more than a century, the Antiquities Act has been a bedrock of American conservation. It’s one of the few tools available for swiftly protecting our country’s cultural, historical and natural treasures. 

As an educator, I have learned in this summer bridge program that we can not only help students find their way back to reading, but that we can help them cultivate a love for tackling challenging material as well.

As UNLV’s David Orentlicher rightly noted in a recent news story about Steve Wynn’s defamation case against a Las Vegas-based reporter, First Amendment rights are facing some serious threats at the current moment in American history.

Should federal funding for housing stop, whether it be through presidential orders or legitimate budget appropriations, our communities will stop. When working more and working harder simply isn’t an option for so many who need access to reasonably priced housing, what’s next?

At a time when others might have followed a good attorney’s admonition to lay low until his scheduled April 4 sentencing date has passed, Mathew Bowyer has kept busy on social media rapping about his glamorous gambling life.

Health care fraud is a complex issue that can occur at various levels of the system. While most health care professionals operate with integrity, there are unfortunately some bad actors out there.

Cameras are used to monitor dangerous intersections. And what they have uncovered throughout the years is a disturbing level of noncompliance. However, claims that they will lower the number of traffic accidents aren’t as airtight as advocates claim.