Opinion

Real fathers lead with honor and conscience

Today is the day we are supposed to celebrate the men who helped bring us into this world. They helped nurture us, taught us to ...

Researchers stand tall as Trump puts thumb on scales of science

In a time when silence often masquerades as prudence, more than 300 scientists, researchers and public servants, from across all 27 National Institutes of Health ...

Region’s water supplies dwindle, but Nevada has chance to fight it

Nevada’s future — and that of the American West — depends on how seriously we confront the collapse of the Colorado River Basin’s water supply. ...

Messy Trump-Musk breakup caps trail of damage they caused together

What began as a spectacle worthy of late-night satire and reality television, the very public and increasingly vicious breakup of President Donald Trump and Elon ...

Hank’s story is one Democrats should remember

How will the diaries of our United States senators read when put to the test?

CES leader: SB 395 slams the brakes on Nevada's future

SB 395 would require a licensed human driver in every autonomous commercial truck. This legislation should concern anyone who believes in the power and promise ...

Guest column: Film bill essential for Nevada's economic future

SB 220 provides Nevadans with a sound economic diversification and implementation plan backed by a $17.5 million investment overseen by a nonprofit board comprising Nevada’s ...

US needs smart people in the room where it happens

This past Wednesday started out very hopeful, turned stupid, got even worse, and finished horrifically. And America is far worse off as a result ...

Michele Fiore unfit for return to judicial post in Nye County

We cannot undo a presidential pardon, but the integrity of Nevada’s judiciary and the public’s faith in that system depend on how we respond to ...

Please Donald, STOP!

I told myself that I wasn’t going to write about President Donald Trump’s daily outrages. People are used to them, they have come to expect ...

By passing REPAIR Act, Congress can stand with fixers and farmers

At a time when American families are struggling under the weight of stubbornly high grocery prices and economic turmoil and uncertainty, our lawmakers have a ...

Elected Republicans must pay the price for Trump’s economic vandalism

President Donald Trump promised to make America great again. But his sweeping and reckless imposition of tariffs is already dragging the country toward disaster.

US risks missing the train to a shared global future

High tech, which was our strong suit, now goes both ways. We may no longer be the leader. And today, we need to grow labor ...

Seniors, rural Americans would bear brunt of DOGE’s SSA cuts

By pushing for such sweeping changes to go into effect so quickly, Trump is demonstrating a base contempt for retirees and other people who rely ...

President decries violence from political enemies while encouraging it of his allies

We live in an era when one political movement, led by President Donald Trump and enabled by a Republican Party willing to ...

House GOP trying to use election security to mask voter suppression

Voting is a fundamental right of every American citizen. Yet House Resolution 22, the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which is being pushed ...

Time for wealthy corporations to carry own weight in Nevada

When a trillion-dollar corporation like Tesla manages to pay just 0.4% in federal taxes over three years — 50 times less than the federal corporate ...

Regents’ actions shake stability of UNLV

Failure should not be the low bar by which we continue to judge our success ...

Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico are just a presidential power grab

During his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Donald Trump falsely linked tariffs against Canada and Mexico to ...

A welcome development: Lombardo breaks with party on health care

No matter how many times Speaker Mike Johnson claims otherwise, this is not about eliminating waste, fraud or abuse. It is a deliberate attack on ...