Life after a mean spirited and vitriolic election
By Dennis Myers, Commentary Recently I heard a Harry Reid radio spot that attacked Sharron Angle for wanting to “privatize” the Veterans Administration. It’s actually called the Department of Veterans...
View ArticleUnder the national glare, Reid prevails: Conservatives make minimal gains in...
By Geoff Schumacher, Special to the Boulder City Review After months of campaign rancor, Nevadans voted to keep Harry Reid as their senior senator for six more years. In the glare of the national...
View ArticleWhat Reid’s return could mean for BC
By Arnold M. Knightly, Knightly News The election of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to his fifth, and most likely final, term could have a profound impact on Boulder City during the next six years....
View ArticleGOP finds strong support in BC: City runs red on election day
By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review Defeated U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle may want to look into buying a house in Boulder City where she would, apparently, be among friends. Angle and...
View ArticleOpinion: Ensign resignation is too little, too late
By Chuck Muth, Muth’s Truths Sen. John Ensign finally did the right thing, apparently one step ahead of the law, but it was too little, too late. If he’d quit from Day One, Rep. Dean Heller might...
View ArticleCity bypass path cleared by toll law
By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review State Sen. Joe Hardy fought for the Boulder City Bypass issue in Carson City for eight years before finally squeezing out enough votes to change state law...
View ArticleMyers: Moral issues and political programs: the twain meet
By Dennis Myers, Commentary Answer this: Is the Catholicism of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner an issue in politics? Almost anyone outside of politics would say no. To most folks who grew up in the...
View ArticleU.S. Senate candidate working grass roots
By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review Boulder City received its first official visit from a candidate in the 2012 U.S. Senate race when Las Vegas attorney and entrepreneur Byron Georgiou stopped...
View ArticleEditor’s Desk: Why Reid’s $2 million toward bypass is big deal
At first look, last week’s press release from the country’s most powerful politician outside the White House ballyhooing a $2 million procurement for the Boulder City Bypass had me rolling my eyes....
View ArticleEnergy allocation from dam extended: Hoover Dam supplies nearly 47 percent of...
By Jack Johnson, Boulder City Review Boulder City can rest assured that its energy costs will remain somewhat stable in the future thanks to the U.S. Congress extending the city’s allocation of Hoover...
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