Opinion

5 steps to begin, enhance customer experience
Monday, December 4, 2017
GUEST COLUMN:
A great product or service is just the starting point. You also need a great billing process, great digital tools, reasonable pricing and refined ways to resolve customer problems.
Progress on gun safety? Forget it with this bunch
Sunday, December 3, 2017
The House Judiciary Committee just voted to make it impossible for a state to always keep people convicted of violent offenses from carrying concealed weapons. ...
Control of Senate could hinge on Alabama vote
Sunday, December 3, 2017
The fast-approaching Dec. 12 special election in Alabama has now become the gateway to which party will control the next Senate majority. ...
Will anyone challenge Trump’s enablers?
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Great nations and proud democracies fall when their systems become so corrupted that the decay is not even noticed — or the rot is written off as a normal part of politics. ...
Tax reform and Russia: hoaxes real and imagined
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Where I Stand:
If this Russia thing is a hoax — which has been Trump’s position all along to his followers in order to keep them on his side — why did special counsel Robert Mueller cut Gen. Michael Flynn a sweetheart of a deal in order to get him to roll over on higher ups in the Trump administration? ...
North Las Vegas should apologize for officers’ unannounced visit
North Las Vegas should apologize for officers’ unannounced visit
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Sun Editorial:
Given the lack of notice and the vacuum of information, those concerns were justifiable. Why in the world would a group of North Las Vegas officers have had reason to be on campus, miles away from the North Las Vegas city limits, at the exact time of the competition?
Not a matter of parties
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Letters to the Editor:
Russian interference in the election process threatens our republic, but Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee fixing the Democratic primary does not? ...
Housing bill holds promise
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Letters to the Editor:
In recent years, I have found myself, like many Nevadans, disenchanted with our national politics and have struggled to retain hope that Washington would create solutions to our nation’s many problems ...
Trump working against workers
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Letters to the Editor:
President Donald Trump is not a maverick or a political outsider. He is one of the good-old boys. ...
Limiting president’s power could put nation at risk
Friday, December 1, 2017
The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and, to a lesser extent, questions about the future of Iran’s nuclear program both have drawn certain scholars, members of the media and even the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to debate whether the time has come to restrict the American president’s unilateral authority to launch a nuclear strike. ...
Can evangelicals’ unity survive the Trump era?
Friday, December 1, 2017
About 20 years ago, the eminent sociologist of religion Christian Smith coined a useful and resonant phrase, describing evangelical Christianity in the post-1960s United States as both “embattled and thriving.” ...
Court should back states in gambling case
Friday, December 1, 2017
American democracy’s comic opera frequently features collaborations of “bootleggers and Baptists.” ...
Outdoor areas are national treasures
Friday, December 1, 2017
Guest Column:
Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, I had never experienced the outdoors until last summer when I was accepted into the Latino Heritage Internship Program, a joint partnership between the National Park Service and Hispanic Access Foundation. ...
Bill would help turn up speed of innovation in transportation
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Guest Column:
We know that phones and watches can be “smart” in this day and age, but what about cities? Can our communities be smart, too? ...
Fixing Trump’s carnage will take years of work
Thursday, November 30, 2017
The Trump administration’s approach to governance is that of a bratty toddler confronting a neat stack of blocks: knock it down and scatter the pieces. It may take years to rebuild what Donald Trump and his minions are destroying. ...