January, 1999 issue
Health Care: Attacking the Heart of Medicine
Health CareAttacking the Heart of Medicine By Richard M. Salsman ocialized medicine has produced cowering medical bureaucrats who have to turn to capitalist doctors for help. Boris Yeltsin’s heart operation...
Education: ‘Just the Facts, Ma’am’
Education‘Just the Facts, Ma’am’ Looking at Educational Spending in Nevada as Sgt. Joe Friday Would Have Done by Mary Novello n Sept. 23, 1999, The Express, a newspaper in London,...
Publisher’s Page: Growth Has More Than Paid for Itself
Publisher's PageGrowth Has More Than Paid for Itself by Judy Cresanta efore 1979, the property tax rate in Nevada’s cities and metropolitan areas was at or near the constitutional limit—$5...
Features Elko: Life Under The Federal Thumb
FeaturesElko: Life Under The Federal Thumb The Forest Service Produces One Big Fish Story After Another by Don Bowman uring Arts. Back in 1964, when Congress established the Jarbidge Wilderness, the...
Features: Little Cat Mountain
FeaturesWhat’s That (ugh) Smell? Hydrogen Sulfide Off the Sunrise Landfill? Or Clark County Pols? by W. W. Anderson fter decades of polluting the Nevada landscape, ripping off taxpayers, defrauding governments and...
Cover Story: The Slippery Slope
Cover StoryThe Slippery Slope A notoriously anti-free-market ordinance passed October 6 by three Clark County commissioners—Erin Kenny, Myrna Williams and Yvonne Atkinson Gates—won’t be doing the job that they (and...
January/February 2000 : So Why Can’t Nevada Johnny Read?
January/February 2000 So Why Can't Nevada Johnny Read?by Deborah Carson he statistics are clear: Reading failure is a real problem here in Nevada and all across America. The situation is serious....
January/February 2000: State of the Nostrum
January/February 2000 State of the NostrumGuinn’s Big Review Increasingly Looks Like Window-Dressing by Del Tartikoff n his 1999 State of the State address, Kenny Guinn promised Nevadans that his administration would...
Cover Story: Ax the Room Tax
Cover Story Ax the Room Taxby Steven Miller ecause Nevada makes so much of its living off a handful of historically good ideas, you'd think it would be the last state...