Douglas Bell

Apr 25, 2024 | lasvegassun.com | Douglas Bell

Winston Churchill described World War II as “the unnecessary war” because France and Britain had authority under the Treaty of Versailles to invade Germany in 1936 when Adolf Hitler entered the Rhineland with his then-small army. The allies failed to take advantage of this weakness at that time, and Germany rearmed. Standing united against military aggression is the only way to prevent World War III. Russia must be defeated in Ukraine to keep it from invading the rest of Europe.

Apr 10, 2024 | lasvegassun.com | Douglas Bell

Politicians of both parties like to point fingers at each other regarding the issue of affordable housing. Focusing on tenant eviction laws and rental rate increases misses the point, as it is a case of supply and demand, where prices and rents go up when not enough housing at all price ranges is being built.

Apr 3, 2024 | lasvegassun.com | Douglas Bell

One of the takeaways of Donald Trump’s political career is that if one’s life and business activities are not squeaky clean, then one should forgo getting into the public arena. In hindsight, one has to wonder if Trump would do it all over again if he could turn back history. Had Trump not run for political office, there is a good chance that today he would be enjoying a wonderful retirement playing golf, instead of seeing his financial empire crumbling under public scrutiny and civil penalties.

Feb 23, 2024 | lasvegassun.com | Douglas Bell

The Trump Organization is expected to argue in its appeal of the New York fraud case that it was guilty of a victimless crime, as all the loans it took out were allegedly repaid. This legal argument addresses only the private financial outcome, not the public impact. When private businesses undervalue properties, this fraud results in a lower amount in property taxes and fees being paid to state and local governments.

Jul 20, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jeff Johnson |Giridhar Athrey |Clifford M. Anderson |Douglas Bell

Mutational load estimation To determine the effects of the SNP variants found across falcon population samples, we performed effect prediction using SnpEff v.4 (Cingolani et al., 2012). We first generated a custom genome database for the peregrine using the falPer2 genome assembly and the annotation GTF generated in this study. Following this, we passed each filtered variant file through SnpEff to generate an annotated list of genes impacted by SNP variants.