Obama, Republicans maneuver over sequester, government shut-down
Obama, Republicans maneuver over sequester, government shut-down Two days after sequester-driven budget cuts went into effect, both sides in the battle – Republican lawmakers and the Obama White House...
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s New Medicare Plan Could Be Just Tip of the Iceberg
As Rep. Paul Ryan this week once again proposes reforms to Medicare, there are signs that others in Congress are acknowledging that Medicare deficits must be addressed. By Mark Trumbull The arrival of...
View ArticleObama Launches ‘Charm Offensive’ On Capitol Hill. Does It Have Any Chance?
President Obama began meetings with lawmakers Tuesday to discuss everything from deficits to guns. He is not known for cultivating working relationships on the Hill, and at the same time, GOP...
View ArticleIn Venezuela, divisions over Hugo Chávez extend from parliament to the dinner...
Polarization in Venezuela got worse under Hugo Chávez, with the rifts going far beyond politics to split cities, neighborhoods, and families. By Ezra Fieser CARACAS, VENEZUELA — Mourning Hugo Chávez...
View ArticleWith Chávez gone, what do his young opponents want now?
A vibrant youth movement played a major role in Venezuela’s beleaguered opposition during the rule of Hugo Chávez. By Ezra Fieser CARACAS, VENEZUELA — Weeks before Hugo Chávez died, while he was holed...
View ArticleAdvocates of Pre-K Pushing Obama: “Go To The Library”
By Mark Scheerer of the Nevada News Service LAS VEGAS — President Obama highlighted support for early learning in his State of the Union address. He should go to the library, according to advocates for...
View ArticleCouncilman Steve Ross Running Scared
Right in the middle of the early voting process and within days of the April 2 primary election, desperately incumbent Las Vegas City Council in Ward 6, Steve Ross, distributed flyers full of...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court to take up Michigan affirmative action case
At issue in the Michigan affirmative action case is whether a ballot initiative violated the rights of minority students to try to influence school officials to adopt race-conscious admissions plans....
View ArticleGay Marriage: How Supreme Court Cases Could End With a Whimper
A wildcard in the two landmark gay marriage cases before the Supreme Court this week is that the justices could rule on the question of ‘standing,’ not the core issue of whether Prop. 8 and DOMA...
View ArticleCouncilman Steve Ross Running Scared
False allegations and lies could be the reason Right in the middle of the early voting process and within days of the April 2 primary election, a...
View Article‘Obamagate’ danger for the GOP: political overreach
Republicans are jumping all over what they see as major scandals in the Obama administration, including Benghazi, the IRS, and checking journalists’ phone records. But some in the GOP are warning...
View ArticleTed Moody meets with Las Vegas Tribune Editorial Board
Showing great interest in changing the pattern of discrimination against this newspaper by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, former Assistant Sheriff and now candidate for Sheriff, Ted...
View ArticleSheriff Candidate Gordon Martines alleges discrimination/ethics violation...
An article published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Mike Blasky last week, Oct. 1, 2013, exalted and praised the latest candidate to run for 2014 Clark County Sheriff: Captain Larry Burns. At the...
View ArticleShutdown EPA workers clean up a river anyway
In response to the federal government shutdown, a group of Environmental Protection Agency staffers in Georgia made cleaning up a local creek a ‘do it yourself’ project. By Cynthia DanielScientists...
View ArticleTed Moody meets with Las Vegas Tribune Editorial Board
Showing great interest in changing the pattern of discrimination against this newspaper by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, former Assistant Sheriff and now candidate for Sheriff, Ted...
View ArticleWith shutdown and default clocks ticking, lawmakers hit an impasse
Four days before a possible U.S. government default on its debt, lawmakers failed to reach agreement. That, says a European central banker, could be ‘very negative for the U.S. economy and the world...
View ArticleHow Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats misrepresented ACA
Destroying your health-insurance plan wasn’t a ‘bug’ in Obamacare — it was an intentional, core feature By Steven Miller Nevada Journal Barack Obama wasn’t the only high-profile public figure who...
View ArticleRadel resigns from Congress in wake of a cocaine scandal
Rep. Trey Radel of Florida, a once-rising star in the Tea Party movement, said in his resignation letter Monday that he can no longer ‘fully and effectively serve,’ after a conviction for buying...
View ArticleHow Detroit’s bankruptcy could affect immigration reform dialogue
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is proposing to recruit 50,000 immigrants to revitalize Detroit. It’s a long shot, but it could tweak the dialogue around immigration reform. By Noelle Swan Gov. Rick Snyder...
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