I don’t think I have left the City Council chambers more disillusioned with you than I did Tuesday night. The council, sitting as the Redevelopment Agency, asked the city manager to draw up plans to loan the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association $300,000 to help retire debt on the financially beleaguered museum. As I said in [...]

“I noticed that you are supporting Newt Gingrich,” a longtime reader emailed me this week, “but your position puzzles me.” Others have expressed similar comments, especially those who know I am much more in line philosophically with Ron Paul. So I’ll explain. (Disclosure: I’m presently a paid adviser to Winning Our Future PAC) Although I was [...]

This coming weekend the Nevada Republican Party will hold its presidential caucuses. Recently I wrote an article on the comparative benefits of presidential primaries and caucuses. After it was published, a reader comment was posted: “Please push to bring back primary voting. I can and will participate in the caucuses, but those with jobs and [...]

Our choices and decisions are very personal matters that we make daily. Let’s call choices easy tasks, like choosing what we eat for breakfast. Let’s call decisions the complicated tasks, like our choice of political candidates. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member

by Chuck Muth, Boulder City Review The purpose of National School Choice Week, Jan. 22-28, is “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 [...]

by Arnold M. Knightly, The Editor’s Desk If you have seen me around town the past few days you know I have been in a funk. I am not my bright, cheery self. All right, I’m never really bright and cheery. I was going to write my column this week about how when a sitting U.S. [...]

“Going postal” originated from the cases of United States Postal Service employees who, due to job stress or other traumatic influence, have murdered coworkers on the job, usually with a firearm. Only later did the definition open up to general insanity, but the term still has connotations of violence. – from onlineslangdictionary.com Imagine [...]

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 provided a handy legal mechanism, by which species in danger of extinction within the foreseeable future could be protected along with their respective habitats. All endangered species, whether a rare plant, a voluptuous manatee, or a unique species of fish inhabiting only a single spring were candidates for protection [...]

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. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or [...]

If you have any concerns about trash collecting in Boulder City, good or bad, you should make your way over to City Hall today, Thursday, at 5 p.m. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member