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July 31, 2024

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Biden-Harris administration has enviable record on fighting crime
As a former prosecutor and California attorney general, Kamala Harris has spent decades working directly with law enforcement and other state attorneys general to take on drug cartels ...
No corrupt, convicted felon can credibly serve the public trust
No American should want a convicted felon who remains unrepentant and refuses to accept responsibility for their actions to serve in any government position.
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No reason to do 180 on Trump
Not long ago, some Republicans in Congress and, recently, some candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination voiced their opinion that Donald Trump was unfit to serve as president, but they now claim he is the best fit for president.
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By Fred Underwood, Henderson
Harris renews hope for nation
My heart was broken the night I watched Joe Biden in his only presidential debate.
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By Richard Strickland, Las Vegas
Our decisions impact wildlife
The increasing amount of public land being appropriated for luxury home developments and green energy initiatives is affecting wildlife habitat, causing confused animals to roam into urban areas.
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By Annoula Wylderich, Las Vegas
Dismissal of case was unsound
Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump is just wrong.
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By Michael Westerhaus, Las Vegas
GOP leaders lack backbone
At the Republican National Convention, Nikki Haley — who fought Donald Trump for the party’s presidential nomination — said she would vote for Trump in November and that Trump had her “strong” endorsement.
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By Tom Harper, Henderson
Culture wars are a distraction
Because of the way our political system is set up, communities with sparse populations have more electoral power than communities where many people live.
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By Charles Parrish, Las Vegas
Save the country from Project 2025
America is at a crossroads. We are about to decide whether we continue as a democracy or live under a dictatorship.
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By Philip Riffe, Las Vegas
History isn’t on anyone’s side
Saying you are on the right side of history is just another way of saying, “God is on our side.”
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By Daphne Aurness, Laughlin
Problem is guns, not just rhetoric
It’s disgusting but not surprising that some Republicans have blamed the failed assassination attempt of Donald Trump on President Joe Biden. In a private call with donors, Biden had said it was time to put a bull’s-eye on Trump in an effort to ...
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By Carol Ann Kimble, Las Vegas
Long-range guns are useful tools
Having grown up on a farm in the Midwest, the July 22 letter “Some guns just aren’t necessary,” which questioned the need for a gun that can shoot greater than 100 yards, left me scratching my head ...
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By Brad Swart, Henderson

Other Voices »

  • For the last time, it’s ‘Comma-luh’
    It seems like Republicans cannot get out of their own way. After a triumphant and unified Republican National Convention this month, it seemed like they were on a glide path to defeat the Democrats, who found themselves forced to swap in Vice President Kamala Harris for the aging President Joe Biden barely three months out from Election Day.
  • Made in America should be mined in America
    Mineral supply chains are reshaping how we think about energy security. Supplies of lithium, graphite, copper and rare earths — among many other essential metals — are already dictating the speed of energy technology deployment and creating new global centers of industrial strength.
  • For once, it’s the Democrats who are falling in line
    Democrats are coming together with a swift, unified show of force that seemed unfathomable just weeks ago. It has made a mockery of a still-new Republican talking point — that President Joe Biden’s departure would leave Democrats divided and in disarray.
  • AG Ford: Pharmacy benefit managers under a microscope in Nevada
    AG Ford: Pharmacy benefit managers under a microscope in Nevada
    Over the past several months, I, alongside many other attorneys general from across the country, have begun to hold pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) accountable for ...
  • Brian Greenspun
    Echoes of Washington fill Biden’s noble departure
    In 1796, after two terms as president of the United States, George Washington stepped away.
  • 6 reasons Harris has better odds than Clinton
    Almost as quickly as Democrats took a sigh of relief after President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign, many also started holding their breath. There was relief because a diminished ...
  • Who elected Elon Musk our arbiter of social norms?
    Elon Musk’s drift — more precisely, his headlong dive — into right-wing orthodoxies has been well-chronicled. He has openly endorsed antisemitic tropes, called for the prosecution of the respected immunologist Anthony Fauci (evidently buying into ...
  • Why Yale Law is so good at producing reactionaries like Vance
    JD Vance’s Yale Law School pedigree came up at least a dozen times at the Republican National Convention. His degree from the institution gives the inexperienced Vance more legitimacy and validates his ...
  • Guns aren’t as good for self-defense as Americans seem to think
    In June, the surgeon general declared gun violence a public health crisis. Data show it’s now the leading cause of death for American kids 17 and under. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that ...
  • The results are in: Trickle-down economics is a myth
    With Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his running mate, the Republican Party has cemented its turn toward American workers. Speaking at the Republican National Convention, Vance pledged a commitment to safeguarding jobs and wages, echoing the Democratic Party. ...
  • Primaries are not sacrosanct in America
    Alas, the coronation of Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee is complete. Democrats are surprisingly ecstatic with the decision, and Republicans, or at least the Trump campaign is very cross about it, complaining that democracy has been ...
  • Why would Teamsters boss praise antiunion Republicans?
    International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien’s speech to the first day of the Republican National Convention should leave union and nonunion members alike feeling confused, if not totally betrayed. O’Brien said all ...
  • Biden is the one with COVID, but it’s Trump  who has a COVID problem
    Biden is the one with COVID, but it’s Trump who has a COVID problem
    The former president was rusty and out of practice, not quite delivering with the zip he once had, when in a curious blunder, he boasted of one of his legitimate achievements — expediting the development of COVID vaccines ...
  • Harris’ political instincts paying off
    Harris’ political instincts paying off
    With President Joe Biden recovering from COVID-19, the task of honoring top college athletes from across the country fell to Harris, who performed the same duty last year with much less fanfare ...
  • CrowdStrike meltdown shows that the hacking problem isn’t only from outside
    CrowdStrike meltdown shows that the hacking problem isn’t only from outside
    An ineptly designed update to a program rolled out by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike and installed automatically on users’ machines instantly crashed millions of computers running Microsoft programs ...