Next recession likely to hit Nevadans especially hard, whenever it starts
"If all the world’s economists were laid end to end," George Bernard Shaw is said to have quipped, "they'd never reach a conclusion."Conflicting headlines...
Rural Nevada, like rural America, is hurting, and Trump won’t fix that
Donald Trump lost Clark and Washoe counties in 2016. But in rural Nevada, he got 97,423 votes, to Hillary Clinton’s 39,654.That wasn’t enough for...
Public lands: It’s who we are as Nevadans
My earliest memory in life, and of Nevada, lives in the Lehman Caves of Great Basin National Park. I remember being led by my...
‘Explosive’ price of gold won’t mean much for Nevada
Since last year the price of gold has increased 25 percent, from $1,200 to $1,500. Market watchers are saying things like gold is a...
They should’ve banned assault weapons while they were at it
Gov. Steve Sisolak and legislative Democrats take pride, and rightly so, in the gun safety agenda they enacted this year.In February, Sisolak signed into...
Turns out firing people is good for shareholders
MGM Resorts released its quarterly financial report last week, and a preponderance of professional expert-texpert market watchers agree: firing people makes shareholders happy.MGM hoped...
“And then they lied to cover it up?” “Generally, that’s true.”
If you read the special counsel's report (and being Current readers you're likely the sort who did), the exchange between Robert Mueller and House...
Do Nevada Democrats secretly love this guy?
Your governor, you may remember, kicked off his first term with a stirring state of the state address in which he said ... well,...
All the times Donald Trump has never been a racist
In the 1970s when African Americans who applied to rent apartments owned by Donald Trump were told there were no vacancies, even though there...
A real “New Nevada” would fix its daffy mining tax
Nevada mines produced $7.8 billion worth of minerals in 2018.Mining taxes were paid on less than a third of that amount.And after taking advantage...