The annual celebration of a nation led by its people free of any king rings pretty hollow these days with the Trump administration issuing edicts and open threats to citizens and trading partners alike. And, so, I thought I’d pass on the whole stars-and-stripes thing.

America is more than the mere sum of our politics at any given moment, and our pride should depend not on current events, but on how far we’ve come as a nation since our messy separation from the English empire two and a half centuries ago. 

It shouldn't be controversial or anti-democratic to request resources for our communities' most vulnerable members. Financial, food, housing and medical assistance programs are all crucial for ensuring the safety and stability of our neighborhoods.

Not only will this lead to higher energy prices for Nevadans — a recent analysis published by CNN suggests our rates may increase by 12 percent — it will also strangle many of the new energy generation projects that are being built in this state.

Pushback came not just from the tree huggers, but from the meat eaters as well. As anyone who knows anything about public lands will tell you, a broad cross section of Americans enjoy access to the West’s great commons.

To be sure, not all objections to reform are the result of pure rent-seeking self-interest by industry incumbents and their bureaucratic enablers. Consumer protection is, after all, a legitimate concern for lawmakers, policymakers and regulators. 

The longevity of many of our team members says it all — The Indy is a great place to work and we’re proud to be doing meaningful work each and every day. Want to be part of it?

Bills with budget implications are tagged with a dreaded fiscal note and get referred to their own version of death row in the Senate Finance or Assembly Ways and Means committees. ... most will quietly die without their fiscal note deliberated.

The truth is, Las Vegas has always been more about spectacle than sport. I know. I’m from the place that once allowed casino maverick Bob Stupak to hire a man for $1 million to jump off the top of his Vegas World hotel.

Juneteenth serves as a powerful reminder that when justice is delayed, it is effectively denied. It encourages us to stay vigilant and committed to ensuring that our constitutional rights and freedoms are not just proclaimed but actively fulfilled and embraced.

It wasn’t enough to want to do something, though. Lawmakers also needed to find and attract entrepreneurs willing to provide card processing services at lower costs to Nevada’s businesses.

With hundreds of exhibits and assistants on their computers, as the hearing commenced May 22 it was hard not to ponder all the billable hours piling up. The scene made it harder to imagine this dispute is over something as simple as a right-of-way issue on undeveloped land.

Like a nation printing money without restraint, our political system has made so many withdrawals from the bank of moral indignation that inflation has rendered each new expression nearly worthless. 

Such an inhumane obsession over the raw number of arrests — rather than a calculated push to deport “the worst of the worst” — is the sort of directive one would expect from Joseph Stalin’s NKVD during the Great Purge rather than American law enforcement agencies.

Households that are stably housed now will lose critical assistance, and we will see a terrible ripple effect of increased homelessness and significant challenges that will arise in our schools and hospitals. 

That’s why the accidental disclosure and the meeting itself ought to be remembered as an inflection point for the industry before the sting of the candor fades and is replaced by a new shiny object.

Go visit some ghost town along a lonely Nevada roadway, explore the nearly infinite expanse of mountain ranges winding their way through our backyard or simply step out under the neon lights and enjoy the entertainment options that have made our state famous. 

If public education is weakened or defunded, and private institutions are empowered, it becomes easier for certain ideological agendas to shape what students learn, such as downplaying systemic racism, teaching creationism, or pushing nationalist interpretations of U.S. history.

It’s no wonder people in Southern Nevada keep looking for some way to diversify their economy. They know what their economy looks like without gaming and hospitality — it looks like a 34 percent unemployment rate.

Fiore’s controversies have been buried deep by the latest slate of criminals to receive pardons or sentence commutations from Trump. It’s another in a continuing series of efforts to tar the rule of law, sow distrust for the justice system and diminish the importance of political corruption prosecution.