Call me naïve, but I have a question for Rep. Mark Amodei: Just because you’re a conservative Republican, do you have to go along with President Trump’s blatantly racist comments?

The Democratic Party announced this week that it was changing the rules for the first-in-the-west caucus, the focus of which, of course, will be selecting Nevada’s preference for the Democratic presidential nominee next year. This time, you don’t have to even show up – you can literally phone in your participation!

Thirteen minutes. That’s how long Steven Paddock, using an arsenal of nearly two-dozen semi-automatic assault rifles, rained down bullets from a high window at Mandalay Bay on the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017.

Nevada is finally claiming its leadership in the West as an outdoor recreation powerhouse.

NV Energy’s rollout this summer of plans to develop 1,200 megawatts of additional solar power generation is just the latest reminder that Nevada is leading on clean energy. Nevada leads the nation in clean energy job growth, with more than 8,000 jobs created in 2018 alone.

The 80th session of the Legislature saw a great deal achieved: clean energy policy, criminal justice reform, increasing the minimum wage, background checks on gun sales, a pro-choice abortion bill, and more. I don’t know why our politicians, including Gov. Sisloak, didn't consider higher education more integral to these achievements.

Governors in New Mexico and California barely took time to lace up their sneakers last week before sprinting to court Nike following the shoe manufacturing giant’s dustup in Arizona over, of all things, its decision to discontinue marketing a product featuring a Betsy Ross flag.

If you only ever listen to talking heads on cable news, or go out of your way to never exit your political tribe’s echo chamber, you would think we are on the brink of Armageddon.

Things could always be worse.  I know it’s hard to believe, at least where local government in this state is concerned.

You have to hand it to the Washoe County School District. When they commit to the circus, they’re committed. Shutting down three administration buildings for two days because the soon-to-be-former boss might roll in and make a cameo?

It rarely pays to wax nostalgic about the issues, events and characters at Las Vegas City Hall.

There have been quite a few solemn celebrations over the passage of AB267 in the 2019 Nevada legislative session.

For as long as nearly anyone can remember, the Silver State has been a place where travelers from around the world have come seeking opportunity, culture, and the uniquely diverse beauty of a landscape that includes the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the sands of the Mojave desert, and the aquamarine waters of Lake Tahoe and Lake Mead.

Juvenile justice reform is on the march in Nevada. Earlier this month, Gov. Steve Sisolak signed Assembly Bill 439, which the Legislature passed unanimously, making Nevada the second state in the country to end harmful fees in the juvenile delinquency system.

Consider Mike Schaefer in his 82nd year. Call him one part Zelig with a touch of Gump and a little Chauncey Gardiner thrown in for good measure. There were times over the years I’d swear the guy was everywhere in the company of the famous, near-famous, and infamous.

Traci Davis, Washoe County’s embattled superintendent, went on indefinite leave earlier this week for “personal reasons.” Two other top administrators, Chief Student Services Officer Byron Green and Chief of Staff David Lasic, colleagues of Davis’ from her Clark County days, were gone the same day, scrubbed from the district’s website as if they never existed.

Contrary to what Californians think, there is nothing sacred about houses. California has a problem. It refuses to build enough housing for its growing population, and has been refusing to do so for decades.

The effort to reform the concept of cash bail failed miserably in the recent legislative session. It’s not a surprise given that the argument came down to “being kind-hearted with bad people” versus “keeping our community safe for good people.”