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OPINION: How Nevada’s $90,000 ‘text’ message saved America

With mere days remaining, there was only one piece of technology that might still provide a breath of hope for those who saw Nevada as a path to ensure a Republican victory over the issue of slavery: the telegraph. 

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OPINION: Don’t fall for the Hollywood handout, Nevada

Georgia has become utterly fixated on one way to boost its economy: The film tax credit is now our largest corporate tax incentive, expanding over time to compete with 38 other states that have enacted their own credits.

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OPINION: NBA betting scandal surprise anyone? I didn’t think so.

One veteran of the legal side of the sports betting industry puts it bluntly: If the bookies used were legal, they were dangerously unsophisticated. If they were illegal, they were asking for trouble — or were in on the conspiracy and getting a piece of the action.

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OPINION: Edgelords run the government now

For Trump, soliciting outrage is the entire point. Sure, that might be attention-grabbing, but it’s also a pretty unhealthy way for the leader of 350 million Americans to communicate in our modern era of discontent and partisan divide. 

Protesters carrying signs during the No Kings rally on Oct. 18, 2025, in Reno.

OPINION: No Kings? No s—!

Reno’s No Kings rally was just one of thousands held across the country as an exercise of the right to peaceably assemble that’s guaranteed under the First Amendment of our Constitution. What’s more American than that?

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