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Collective Bargains Should be Ratified Collectively
Although the issue of collective bargaining for government workers has been white hot this year in states such as Wisconsin and...
Chuck MuthAugust 25, 2011 -
The Most Anti-Small Biz SoS in Nevada History?
Has there ever been a more anti-small business Secretary of State in Nevada than Ross Miller? But before we explore that...
Chuck MuthAugust 22, 2011 -
Constituent Riot Control in the Governor’s Office
One of my Muth’s Truths blog readers recently wrote the following to Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval via the administration’s spiffy new...
Chuck MuthAugust 18, 2011 -
Main Street’s e-VooDoo Tax
I just returned from an annual meeting of state legislators in New Orleans at which I attended a briefing on what...
Chuck MuthAugust 8, 2011 -
Debt Ceiling Deal: Tea Party Triumph or Treason?
For-profit tea party leader Judson Philips of Tea Party Nation – currently being sued by the Venetian for cancelling a conference...
Chuck MuthAugust 1, 2011 -
Hi, I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Protect You
In the 2011 session of the Nevada Legislature, there was once again a plethora of bills to license, regulate and tax...
Chuck MuthJuly 31, 2011 -
CPAC to Gay Conservatives: Up Yours!
Well, it appears – at least for now – that the homophobes have defeated the homocons. GOProud is an organization of...
Chuck MuthJuly 30, 2011 -
It’s Not “Partisan” to Expose Abuses of Power
Nevada’s Dean of Political Pundits, Jon Ralston, went after the libertarian-conservative Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) in his Las Vegas Sun...
Chuck MuthJuly 29, 2011 -
Political Potpourri: July 28, 2011
According to entertainment columnist Norm Clarke, his Royal Highness of Hyperbole, TV station mogul Jim Rogers, “blew up during an April...
Chuck MuthJuly 29, 2011 -
Wrong Angle
“What none of these critics have is an alternative strategy for achieving anything nearly as fiscally or politically beneficial as Mr....
Chuck MuthJuly 29, 2011 -
Pretzel Logic
My friend and political pontificator extraordinaire Jon Ralston is gonna need a chiropractor after all the contortions he’s going through to...
Chuck MuthJuly 26, 2011 -
Hop on the Bus, Gus…No Matter How Much it Costs Taxpayers
Every time I hear some boy-who-cried-wolf politician in Nevada whine that we’ve cut government to the bone and simply HAVE to...
Chuck MuthJuly 26, 2011 -
Baby, You Can Drive My Car
In a recent op/ed published by the Las Vegas Sun, Nevada Department of Transportation chieftess Susan Martinovich complained (again) that “Nevada...
Chuck MuthJuly 26, 2011 -
Property Rights vs. Urban Blight
Las Vegas Sun columnist J. Patrick Coolican inked a piece this week pointing out all the unfinished construction projects in Las...
Chuck MuthJuly 26, 2011 -
The Doctor is (Back) In!
Psephology (see-fol-oh-gee): noun – The study of politics and elections. As many of you know, before my first daughter was born...
Chuck MuthJuly 24, 2011 -
Political Potpourri: July 22, 2011
Doesn’t saying a candidate’s health “should not be an issue” in and of itself make that candidate’s health an issue? I’m...
Chuck MuthJuly 22, 2011 -
Assembly GOP’s Big, Huge, Stupendous Announcement
To paraphrase an old saying, it’s better to not send out any press releases and be thought a boob than to...
Chuck MuthJuly 22, 2011