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Carson City – Chris Forbush, candidate for State Assembly District 40 against PK O’Neill, was the only candidate in the race to receive endorsement from the Carson City Republican Party. The official endorsement was announced following the GOP County Convention held in Carson City on April 9th.

The 2016 election is expected to bring dramatic changes to the make-up of the Nevada Legislature.There are two factors in play. First, the Republican wave in 2014 installed conservative GOP lawmakers ...

Often referred to by media as “the First Friend,” Nevada’s United States Senator Paul Laxalt’s friendship and working relationship with President Ronald Reagan was well known in its day. While much has been written about Reagan, few sources relating to Laxalt’s work overseeing Reagan’s presidential campaigns have been available to researchers.

Al Kramer, former Carson City Treasurer, has announced he will run for Assembly District 40, which includes Carson City and a portion of South East Washoe County.

Kramer was the elected treasurer for Carson City from 1995 through 2015. Those who know him from his service as City Treasurer will acknowledge his efforts to go the extra mile in providing service to the citizens of Carson, and the trust that evolved because of this professional service. This past year he served as the Investment Deputy for the State Treasurer.

Carson City – Chris Forbush is pleased to announce his bid for the Assembly District 40 seat in the Nevada State Legislature.

In the early 1970s, as assistant city engineer in Urbana, where I attended the University of Illinois, I worked on bikeways, sewer systems to minimize pollution, promoting underground power and telephone lines, and other “green” projects. Later, as a university research engineer, I worked on many other environmental, energy and policy issues.

Why is The Godfather so popular among conservative men?

A Mafia film with some famously violent scenes and dealing with the problems of a family of criminals? A story that ends with the underworld boss fully in control after dispatching his enemies with extreme prejudice?

True, the earnest opening lines are: “I love America. America has made my fortune.” An awesome beginning, but that’s not the reason.

Much of the reason lies with the backstory we heard about how Francis Ford Coppola came to produce and direct the film and co-author its script with Mario Puzo, who wrote the book.

Last year, Nevadans voted almost 4-to-1 against taxing businesses based on their gross receipts. Amidst an anemic economic recovery, most Nevadans understood that taxing them on their top line, with no regard for their costs or profitability, was a terrible idea.

But then the 2015 legislature, at Gov. Sandoval's last-minute behest and without reasonable opportunity for anyone to examine what he proposed, passed such a tax anyway.

James Smack says it can be quite difficult to have a conversation or state facts on public affairs television with today’s progressives of the Obama/Clinton/Sanders ilk. The statist liberal crowd is used to controlling media narratives, and they don’t brook dissent or facts and logic that undermine their control.

When a conservative brings up a valid point or question, they get flustered and angry. Instead of a thoughtful, constructive, respectful answer, the conservative often gets shouted down, not debated in a reasonable exchange between civilized discussants.

If we share a weakness, it’s our perpetual optimism.

As free-market economists, we often reflect on the amazing achievements of the past 300 years, and doing so, grow sanguine about what people can accomplish when free to create, innovate, produce and exchange with each other mostly free of government interference.

Randall Hutchison, Orlando, Fla., eagled the 18th and final hole for a 2-under par 70 and 19-under 269 total to lead 26 qualifiers who will advance from Web.com Tour Q-School at Dayton Valley Golf Club. Ben Geyer, Arbuckle, Calif., shot a 5-under 67 that equaled the low round of the day to finish second at 17-under 271.

A couple of weeks after Elko school trustees, encouraged by three conservative legislators, declined to invoke an anti-bullying law to protect a transgender student, the ACLU of Nevada is signaling it intends to sue.
On Tuesday, the ACLU sent a letter (see below) that demands the district respond by...

The conservative activists seeking to have voters block the tax hikes approved by the 2015 Legislature want the legal case challenging their petition moved to federal court.Chuck Muth filed the motion in U.S. District...

Start-Up! is weekly column on entrepreneurship, start-ups, technology and innovation, powered by the Adams Hub for Innovation.

As with excellent business plan writing, excellent investor pitching requires some fundamental aspects but it also requires a bit of flare and compelling allure.

Carson City Republican Women (CCRW) and Carson City Republicans invite you to attend the annual July Freedom Fest BBQ July 23, 6 p.m. at Glen Eagles Restaurant, 3700 N Carson St., Carson City, $10.00/Person.

The Entertainment Extravaganza Raffle Drawing of three GIFT BASKETS will give THREE winners a gift basket which includes a variety of gift certificates up to $1,000 Value each.

The summer of 1776 must not have been much different from other summers gone and yet to come: Hot, muggy and miserable for those who had to work out in it. And in 1776 that included most people.

Like any other summer, that particular one 239 years ago was alive with fragrances in full bloom; the sounds of children playing in fields of wild flowers, and splashing about in creeks and ponds where it was cool; young animals frolicking in the fields; men and women toiling in their gardens and on their farms; and the happy songs of birds, crickets and frogs relishing in the summer solstice.

Congressman Mark Amodei, NV-2, voted Thursday in favor of legislation known as Trade Promotion Authority, which would set parameters and restrictions on the negotiations of a free trade agreement known as the Trans Pacific Partnership and provide for an up or down vote on the resulting agreement. It passed the House 218 to 208.

The TPA bill has been available to the public online for more than a month. Amodei released the following statement:

First, Sen. Harry Reid decided not to seek re-election. Then, Gov. Brian Sandoval opted not to run for the open seat. Candidate Bob Beers might have then imagined his senatorial stock would rise. But it didn’t. Beers got no respect at all....

As part of a larger community effort to improve the quality of life in northern Nevada, United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra will host its Tune Into Kids Fair on Tuesday, June 23 at the “town’s park” in Silver City as part of its annual Day of Action.

The shameless behavior of the "Republicans" in the recently concluded 78th session of the Nevada Legislature -- their vote for the biggest tax and budget hike in the State's history being first and foremost among their record of mis- and nonfeasance -- and the angry reaction to it by the State Party and the loyal Republican rank-and-file, raise an important question.

What is a Republican? What does it mean to be a Republican? If the RINOs and conservatives are both "Republicans," then the term badly needs to be defined.

The elections in November 2014 were a great surprise to many and shock to some. The people swept all Democrats out of the state-wide offices, reversed the majorities in both houses of the Legislature, and by a 4-to-1 margin defeated the "margin" tax. We the Republican base were looking forward to restoring long-overdue sanity at the State level.

It was a brave new world when Republicans swept all constitutional offices and both houses of the Legislature in November for the first time in more than a century. Nobody knew what an era of conservative control woul...

In agreeing to stand with the majority — and telegraphing it with a long, almost pleading missive to the press — Pahrump Assemblyman James Oscarson has distinguished himself among his conservative peers....

The bill that will pay for the governor’s education and general fund budget made it through the Nevada Assembly on Sunday despite passionate opposition from conservative Republicans and did so wi...

A Republican-backed bill that would have allowed political parties to scrap Nevada’s presidential caucus system in favor of a secret-ballot primary was killed by an Assembly committee Wednesday when two conservative Republicans joined with Democrats to oppose it....

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a Christian conservative, will announce on Wednesday that he will make another run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 after a failed attempt in 2012, according to ABC News....

In a Reuters/Ipsos online poll, Jon Stewart topped a list of 10 pundits, with more than half of respondents saying they agreed with him on at least some issues. Only 12 percent did not agree with him on any issues at all....

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Congressman Mark Amodei, who represents Nevada congressional District 2 which includes Carson City, said Wednesday that he returned around $125,000 in unspent office funds from his 2014 budget to the U.S. Treasury to be applied toward deficit reduction.

It represents nearly 10 percent of his office budget for that year. Amodei returned $104,000 from his 2013 budget to the Treasury. Since his election in September 2011, Amodei has returned approximately $495,000.

Assemblyman Brent Jones, a key member of Team Fiore and foaming attacker of fellow pro-tax Republicans, wrote a letter in which he fretted about "cherished legal protections for workers and unions are under attack."
The missive, which you can see below, was responding/pandering to an AFL-CIO postcar...