By Chuck Muth The purpose of National School Choice Week, January 22-28, is to “to shine a spotlight on the need for effective education options for all children.” And nowhere is such exposure needed more than right here in Nevada. Let’s first consider the latest failed experiment our government has performed on our nation’s children[...]

We’re pretty sure a number of folks about blew a gasket when they read in this newspaper that recently “terminated” county manager Rick Osborne was leaving his job in a golden life raft — paid through August 2013 so that he can suckle on the PERS teat into his rocking chair years. Those of us[...]

By George Will LOS ANGELES — Shawn Nee, 35, works in television but hopes to publish a book of photographs. Shane Quentin, 31, repairs bicycles but enjoys photographing industrial scenes at night. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department probably wishes both would find other hobbies. Herewith a story of today’s inevitable friction between people exercising,[...]

By Bill Roberts Certain news stories draw my interest each day — in newspaper form, television, over the internet. As the sun begins to set over the western horizon on this journalist’s career, I still find something most every day which piques my interest. Last week was no different as I read the Las Vegas[...]

By Dana Milbank WASHINGTON — Following Mitt Romney on the campaign trail is a painful yet familiar experience. Painful, because of all the wince-inducing moments when you realize that, for all of Romney’s efforts to imitate human attributes, there remain glitches in the matrix that reveal him to be different from the rest of us.[...]

By Dennis Myers – “Against the Grain” In November, Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Harry Reid spoke on the Senate floor about government regulations. The idea that government regulations kill jobs is a myth created by Republicans to obscure their policy failures that created the recession during the Bush administration, he said. He pointed to a survey[...]

By Chuck Muth Quite a nasty GOP primary battle is shaping up for Nevada’s new 4th congressional district between State Sen. Barbara Cegavske and Danny Tarkanian, which also features at least three other announced Republican candidates. In a pre-emptive shot at Tark recently, Cegavske tweeted, “I have won 6-straight elections. Danny has an 0-3 record.[...]

There’s nothing like a good firing at the top to shake things up in the administration of good local government. What better place to start, and end, than the county manager’s office. News that Nye County Manager Rick Osborne’s days are numbered came as no surprise to us (see our Dec. 16 editorial). As a[...]

By Jerry Harvey – Special to the Pahrump Valley Times We who have lived here in Beatty, Nye County, for some time have for the most part been proud to have burros as “not quite pets” but “more than wild animals” as part of our community. Along comes BLM in 2007 and against the wishes[...]

By Dana Milbank NASHUA, N.H. — I’ve long suspected that if editors knew how little journalism occurs on the campaign trail, they would never pay our expenses. Forget door-knocking. In reality, it’s more trainspotting. Reporters hang out at candidate appearances — and restaurants — talking primarily among themselves and comparing notes on which canned events[...]