We are approaching the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Nevada has an additional reason to celebrate something that happened fifty years before that, when the state took a stand for suffrage. It’s a chance for us to talk about a significant speech in Nevada’s history, and errors in the record of Nevada’s history.

Since the CDC began tracking autism rates in 2000, the rate has more than doubled from one in 150 to one in 59.

Former Sen. Harry Reid has a new foe: anti-Semitism.

The famously combative Reid, who boxed as a young man and often feuded with political foes, says a rise in anti-Semitism deserves a push back.

Growing up in the tiny mining town of Searchlight, Nevada, I remember my uncles returning from combat in World War II. I was too young to understand, but soon learned my uncles’ cause. They risked their lives to stop the evil, murderous regime of Adolf Hitler and to stamp out the Nazi’s hateful and anti-Semitic ideology. They, and mankind, prevailed.

The years of studies, presentations and lobbying for light rail on Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas hit a dead end last week.
The Regional Transportation Commission board unanimously voted to install a bus rapid transit line instead of pursuing light rail.

Harry Reid needed to do something.

A swastika poster appeared at a Bernie Sanders rally in Henderson, Nev. Then there were the swastikas carved in dorm rooms at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Beyond his home state was the march of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., and the mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

“I’ve been involved in political life in Nevada since 1963,” Harry Reid told an audience gathered for a discussion of anti-Semitism Thursday at UNLV, noting he crisscrossed the country during his time in a variety of offices, including Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate. “Never in all my travels did I hear a single slur that was anti-Semitic. I’m not foolish enough to believe it wasn’t out there, but I never saw it. Sadly, it’s here in Nevada.”

Nevada’s former US Senator wants to make something clear.

Unnerved by a rise in anti-Semitic hate speech and bigotry, including in Nevada, former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid organized an educational forum at UNLV on Thursday as part of his call to unite people against it.