As the leader of Washoe County's Student Voice Council and the student representative on the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees, I've experienced the transformative power of integrating student perspectives into educational decision-making.

Our federalist system of government opens the opportunity for upwardly aspirational state and local politicians to add their own equally careless voices to the authoritarian chorus Trump is leading.

Those who knew her best praise her philanthropy, strength of character and class. She was a member of Vegas royalty, part of a historic and star-crossed casino partnership, but so much more than that.

Why do licensing boards need this oversight? Although licensing boards purportedly serve the public interest, they also have incentive to serve their own private interests as well.

SB78 would compromise these crucial protections by “reforming” the board structure and centralizing functions they deem uniform across all boards. However, you can’t treat the functions the same because boards are not the same.

It is not an overreaction to say that a ruling in John Doe’s favor very well could have opened a Pandora’s box that would have resulted in the most egregious erosion of the privacy rights of public workers in our nation’s history.

Perhaps his weakest moment came when Lombardo lamented having to work with a state Legislature controlled by the Democrats. After playing Veto Corleone in the 2023 session, he sounds like a whiner in 2025. And when you’re whining, you’re not leading.

As policymakers insist tariffs will protect American industries, small-business owners understand that they will function as an additional tax — one that will hurt their bottom line and raise costs on consumers.

Retired DEA agent Mike Vigil is officially skeptical. While he respects his fellow former agents, he suspects Terry Cole’s credentials have been inflated to help the Trump administration’s third swing at making the appointment to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration.

In other words, they weren’t merely designed to match the tariffs of other nations, they were designed to tax away trade deficits. It’s a ludicrous goal that is completely untethered to economic reality.

Violent and property crime are down. This comes at a time when other states are grappling with surges in crime. But Nevada took a different approach and decided to be smart on crime — and the numbers show it’s working. These downward trends are no accident.

Saturday’s “Hands Off!” event drew thousands to the state Capitol to decry the shambles the Trump administration is making of the economy as his Cabinet secretaries and billionaire influencers try to cut programs and departments throughout the federal government.

Did I mention that these tariffs apply to all imported goods, even those used as raw materials by American businesses to manufacture products for sale and export? Whatever the real intent of the tariffs might be, the results so far have been nothing short of disastrous. 

It reflected the reality on the ground in many working Nevada households that balance basic necessities with the cost of child care. You can bet affordable child care has an impact on the unemployment rate.

No president, or mayor or governor, can legally do what the current president is doing to the AP — or to any other journalist or news organization — without violating the First Amendment.

While some are quite enthusiastic about the opportunity to simplify things, others consider the hefty price hike on the retail side a bit harder to swallow. And it’s easy to understand the concern in an industry that is currently struggling to compete against a tax-free illegal market.

Cortez Masto and Rosen have demonstrated that they are capable of learning — at a passable level, if not necessarily one that deserves honors — what the present moment calls for. Acceptable work, senators. You are presently meeting expectations.

Those in favor see it as a way to close a loophole through which billions of dollars in potential property tax revenues are lost thanks to the antiquated constitutional provision. It flies under the flag of the Property Tax Fairness Amendment.

But while the stakes may not be what they were nearly six months after the Declaration of Independence was signed — or so we can hope — what is happening now in this country should be disturbing to anyone paying attention and seeing without partisan blinders.

AB334 offers a commonsense solution to the dental hygienist shortage crisis by allowing expanded function dental assistants, licensed dental providers who work alongside dentists and hygienists, to assist with routine teeth cleanings.