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OPINION: It’s not a mandate — it’s a fragile political victory

As likely as it is that national Republicans will overestimate their electoral mandate, it seems just as likely that Nevada Democrats in Carson City will do the same. While Democrats failed to achieve a supermajority they still hold a sizable majority in both the Assembly and Senate. 

OPINION: We must speak up for public lands under assault

Approving polluting and water-intensive projects on our most vulnerable, natural and arid lands, often at the expense of communities and the environment, is not sustainable. Desert landscapes, once disturbed, take hundreds of years to recover.

OPINION: 2025 could get pretty trippy

If he becomes secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be in a position to alter the generally prohibitionist attitudes within such agencies and clear the way for reformists to start making serious progress on psychedelics. 

OPINION: If it’s not guaranteed, it’s gone

While I trust that our fairly elected officials will continue to appropriately fund our libraries, I fear the motives of future politicians who don’t comprehend the value of libraries. Because as we as a country know all too well, if the law does not guarantee something, it will be gone.

OPINION: The disappearing partisan voter

We may have to confront the possibility that our two-party system is doing an abhorrent job of representing most people’s political views with a binary “us or them” approach to today’s complex amalgamation of social and economic challenges. 

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