Don’t let automation tomorrow distract from pay today
As you may have heard, horrifying studies say Las Vegas is one of the most likely places in the solar system for automation to...
Little Tariff Man
Hey, this thing ain't got no bill of rights! argued those who were opposed to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Or words to...
The GOP path from “a kinder, gentler nation” to “very fine people, on both...
Imagine, if you will, Donald Trump and the charlatans, third-raters and crooks in his cabinet providing world leadership as the Soviet Union disintegrated, or...
Nevada income growth is miserable and a stadium won’t fix that
Nevada's median household income rose from $25,776 in 1984 to $56,550 in 2017, a 119 percent increase.That's the smallest increase of any state in...
Mini-commentary: A woman-majority Legislature and nice things too?
Democratic Assemblyman Chris Brooks, aka Gov.-elect Steve Sisolak transition leader Michelle White's spouse, wants the Clark County Commission to appoint him to Commissioner-elect Tick...
State gives tax breaks to Google, all stimulus-response like
If Google hires 50 people in Henderson by the end of 2023, great. If Google spends $600 million on its Henderson server farm or...
Brookings Mountain West launches “Las Vegas and the Middle Class” project
There’s one thing that rich and poor have in common in the U.S. -- they both tend to describe themselves as “middle class.”That might...
So now what?
Things might be more cut and dried if Sheldon Adelson and Adam Laxalt had won.Democrats, with hefty majorities in the state Legislature, would have...
What Republicans mean when they say “California”
“I just don’t know what that means,” Gov. Brian Sandoval told the Review-Journal several weeks ago when asked about warnings from Dean Heller and...
Commentary: Trump’s latest ugly distraction
As funerals have begun in Pittsburgh for the victims of a white supremacist mass murderer, and as the nation continues to shake its collective...