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Opinion
“Don’t forget you are up for a column this week,” read the text on my phone Monday morning. It was a message from Review Editor Ron Eland and, oops, I had forgotten.
Thank you, BCR
Reducing veteran suicide remains a top priority for Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the veteran community.
“You must pay taxes. But there’s no law that says you gotta leave a tip.” – Morgan Stanley
During the past year, Michael McDonald has cemented himself as perhaps the most consequential Nevada Republican Party chairman since John Mason rode herd over the party faithful in the mid-1990s. This is no mean feat.
West winds, east winds, winds from the north and winds from the south sculpt goblins and goblin abodes. In one outcropping there is a whale. Another wind sculpture fashions a frog, and yet another contours a buck-toothed monster.
The latest phase of the Republican National Committee’s search for a site for the party’s 2016 presidential nominating convention has come to an end in the past few days.
Listen closely, and you can hear the indifferent desert wind as it chides and whistles around the politics of the Education Initiative margins tax measure.
Bravo to delegates of the 2014 Nevada Republican Party convention for having both the courage and foresight to remove the gay marriage issue from the party’s official platform. I suspect Ronald Reagan would have approved.
You could say it was the best of times born out of the worst of times.
I’ve written about a few motion-picture-based organizations that attempt to help individuals break into the movie business. Although they exist to serve a wider audience, they do, and may still have, veterans sections that work to help that specific segment of the star struck who have served in the military.
Marshall Hill, above, gives his 5-year-old son Tanner a hand during Monday’s annual Turkey Shoot hosted by the Boulder City Parks and Recreation Department. Children and adults paid to shoot BB guns at a target with prizes later awarded.
In a special meeting last week, the city council voted unanimously to extend a conditional offer of employment to one of three candidates brought forward by a headhunter contracted to find a replacement for former city manager Taylour Tedder, who resigned unexpectedly early this year after just two and a half years on the job.
For drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) in Boulder City, the free ride has come to an end.
After failing to make the playoffs last year, Boulder City High School girls basketball will look to get back on track this season.
