November 1, 2021, 6:01am Columns
The state’s mandatory vaccine deadline for most public employees has come and gone in recent weeks, and, thankfully, government was still able to function. Read story
November 1, 2021, 6:01am Columns
This is a column about nightmares. Read story
October 31, 2021, 6:02am Columns
In an ideal world, partisanship would have nothing to do with election integrity. Alas, American politics are far from perfect, and partisan tribalism is a cancer that has metastasized. Read story
October 31, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Throughout his epic, scandal-ridden career, Donald Trump has compiled an astonishing record of impunity, constantly staying one jump ahead of prosecutors, plaintiffs and creditors. Read story
October 31, 2021, 6:01am Columns
What should we jettison from President Joe Biden’s proposed “Build Back Better” plan? Democrats, who want a lot, have to negotiate with Republicans, who want almost nothing, as well as with putative Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, who want something in between. Read story
October 31, 2021, 6:01am Columns
In 1992, two sisters, Virginia Durkee Richards and Dorothy Durkee Harris, gifted to Clark County the farm they inherited from their father, R.S. Durkee. Read story
October 31, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Things should be looking up for Democrats. Americans are flush with spending money. (They added at least $2.5 trillion to household savings during the pandemic.) Unemployment is back under 5 percent. As for stocks, the S&P 500 is up more than 30 percent from what it was before the pandemic. Read story
October 30, 2021, 6:03am Columns
When I was, like, 17, I didn’t eat for three solid days. Ten pounds had to go — immediately. Read story
October 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
As police misbehavior goes, it was a small thing. Read story
October 28, 2021, 6:01am Columns
China recently launched a test missile that whirled around the entire planet traveling at five times the speed of sound and previewing hypersonic duplicates someday possibly threatening nuclear obliteration all over the place. Getting their adjectives mixed up, some say this could be the beginning of a second Cold War.… Read story