Do Kids Need Good Teachers, or Teachers with Seniority?

Tom Mitchell of the RJ raised an excellent point in his blog last week: If we really care about the interests...

Must Haves vs. Wanna Haves

Ed Guthrie, executive director of Opportunity Village in Las Vegas, inked an op/ed that was published in Tuesday’s RJ making a...

Bank Robbers Want to Keep Loot; Film at 11

Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, sent out an email last week to buttress his support for higher taxes by featuring three...

Johnny O’s Revenge

After the November elections, a Republican member of the Nevada Legislature urged the GOP caucus to unite in opposing Democrat Assemblyman...

Mini-Muth’s Truths: January 16, 2011

Come see the GREAT DEBATE. No, not Obama vs. Gingrich. Yours truly vs. David Gibbs at the Clark County Republican Central...

RNC Winter Meeting Wrap-Up

Close but no cee-gar. I correctly predicted Friday morning in Silver State Confidential that RNC Chairman Michael Steele would not win...

Wanna Talk Tax Restructuring? OK, Let’s Talk

A recent editorial by the Reno Gazette-Journal maintained that “Nevada is in about the deepest (economic) hole in the country precisely...

An Idea Whose Time has Come…Again: Spending Reduction Committee

To paraphrase a well-worn phrase: It’s the spending, stupid. As such, a coalition of eight Republican state assemblymen and 28 leaders...

Weasel Word Trips Up Sandoval’s CofS

Some habits die hard, including the habit of using “weasel words” by politicians. Weasel words are words slipped into an otherwise...

Berkley to Flip Insanity the Bird

Delen Goldberg of the Las Vegas Sun tweets that Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nevada) “will hold a ‘Congress on the Corner’ event...

Lowering Taxpayer Subsidies is NOT a Tax Hike

For the record, elementary and secondary education are mandatory. The government forces kids to go to school until they’re 16. It’s...

PTA Prez Flunks Econ 101

Alison Turner, president of the Nevada PTA, inked a letter-to-the-editor in the RJ on Friday in which she claimed that “Effective...

What if They Repealed Collective Bargaining and No One Noticed?

Gov. Brian Sandoval has submitted a bill (SB 41) almost a month ago that would eliminate mandatory collective bargaining for local...

Woman Busted for Speaking during Reading of Constitution

As the Constitution was read aloud on the floor of Congress for the first time in history last week, Rep. Frank...

Gibbons vs. Sandoval on Tax Hikes

Anjeanette Damon of the Las Vegas Sun compares “conservative” former Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons and his written pledge not to raise...

Paslov Drools for Higher Taxes

Eugene Paslov, a former state school superintendent who is a much responsible for the lousy state of public education in Nevada...

Budget Crunch? What Budget Crunch

From the Department of Are You Freaking Kidding Me? comes a report this morning that in the midst of The Great...