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The status quo in the US is an odd one. Gambling is one of the country’s most popular pastime, with $450 billion spent in 2016 on everything from casino gaming to sports betting. Gambling isn’t seen as being such as vice that it once was, and there is now more dialogue then ever surrounding the
Andy Schlafly, Nearly a billion dollars in taxpayer money are being wasted by the NFL Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas. In direct costs are the $750 million in taxpayer subsidies to build a luxurious new stadium in the desert, plus roughly $95 million in unpaid debt on the stadium that will be left behind
North Carolina was denied a chance at the NCAA men’s basketball title by a last-second shot last year. This year, they’re going back to the Final Four with the help of a last-second shot of their own. Sophomore reserve Luke Maye nailed a tie-breaking jumper with 0.3 seconds to go to lead the Tar Heels
Debra J. Saunders, WASHINGTON — How big is the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals? The San-Francisco-based circuit is so big that it represents nine states, including Nevada, 20 percent of the U.S. population and 40 percent of the nation’s land mass. It’s so big that Congress has looked at bills to split the circuit
Ben Johnson, Oakland, California lawmakers are hoping to talk the National Football League’s (NFL) Oakland Raiders out of plans to move to Las Vegas, offering a taxpayer-subsidized financing deal. In December 2016, lawmakers on the Oakland City Council and Alameda County Board of Supervisors agreed to offer the team’s owners $200 million in taxpayer funds
Dr. James Dobson, The presidential inauguration is now mere days away, yet the media still can’t grasp the reason why Donald J. Trump, and not Hillary Clinton, will be the one sworn in. We are being told that Trump’s win is attributed to white working class males in the rust belt who were angry about
Debra J. Saunders, There is standard progression in the world where journalism and politics intersect. After years of reporting and watching newsrooms shrink, many journalists go to work for the governments they covered, or for an elected official they covered, or for organization they covered and admire. A few who stay in journalism rise in
H. Sterling Burnett, Voters in Nevada overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that would open the state’s electric power market to retail competition. Currently, in Nevada, as in many states, utility companies have monopolies within their respective geographic service areas, with the Nevada Public Utilities Commission, regulating utility prices and other terms of service. In Nevada,