October 2, 2022, 6:01am Columns
On Sept. 20, the Clark County Council and county manager, with minimal notice to the public or stakeholders, abruptly removed management of its troubled jail from the sheriff’s office. Less than a week later, county staff, without a competitive and transparent hiring process, installed former sheriff candidate David Shook as manager… Read story
October 2, 2022, 6:01am Columns
‘The pandemic is over,” President Joe Biden declared last month as he toured the Detroit Auto Show. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over.” Read story
October 2, 2022, 6:01am Columns
What century are we living in? Read story
October 1, 2022, 6:01am Columns
We regularly encounter stories of Americans struggling to stay financially afloat, buffeted by the day’s economic challenges. Many focus on a woman who is identified a quarter of the way in as a “single mother.” She’s often portrayed facing impossible demands of holding a paying job while caring for the… Read story
September 30, 2022, 6:01am Columns
We are different from them. Read story
September 29, 2022, 6:01am Columns
There’s something noticeably different at Nolan Catholic High School in Fort Worth this year. Read story
September 29, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Seattle has been struggling for more than two years now to re-imagine the police: To come up with something softer, a team that can show up to some calls without the badges and the guns. Read story
September 27, 2022, 6:01am Columns
It’s a commonplace gripe in Trump world and aligned planets that “elites look down on me.” The elites are usually described as college-educated liberals living in big cities. Read story
September 26, 2022, 6:01am Columns
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” Read story
September 26, 2022, 6:01am Columns
President Joe Biden is flat-out wrong if he thinks the pandemic is over. Although the trendlines are pointing downward, the United States still registers around 360 deaths per day from the coronavirus and a seven-day average of 55,000 new infections, with 13,700 people currently hospitalized. Those numbers are a far… Read story