If Only Horsford and Others had Listened to Goedhart in ‘09
At a recent budget hearing, Senate Majority Leader Stephen Horsford said, “We were fortunate in 2009 to have one-time funding levels [aka, stimulus money], otherwise the decisions we’re making now, we would have been making then.” (Hat tip: Victor Joecks, NPRI) Um…duh. For the record, here’s what GOP Assemblyman Ed Goedhart wrote OVER TWO YEARS […]
John Lee Takes Johnny O to the Woodshed
In a stinging rebuke to Assembly Speaker John Oceguera, state Sen. John Lee (D-North Las Vegas) took his fellow Democrat to the woodshed today for essentially stealing four pieces of gun legislation from fellow legislators and calling them his own. “Not only are you standing in the way of passage of these measures, you have […]
UNLV CR’s a Pain in Titus’ Tuckus
Delen Goldberg of the Las Vegas Sun takes a look at the efforts of UNLV’s College Republicans to keep a light shined on former Congresswoman Dina Titus, who is pulling down a whopping $108,000 a year right now to teach one class a week at UNLV. In the story, Titus whines: “What disturbs me is […]
Unions Can’t Compete, So They Don’t
Here’s a great quote from the Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal which gets to the heart of the public’s growing dissatisfaction with public employees: “Most reasonable steps to restrain public-sector employment costs are smothered by the unions. Study after study has shown that states and cities could shave 20% to 40% off the […]
Boulder City Citizens Rack Up a Big Win
Linda Strickland – patriot hero defending a group of private citizens in Boulder City who were needlessly personally sued by their own government for sponsoring a series of ballot initiatives last year – advises of a big win for those citizens in court today: On February 25th, Judge Susan Scann in Dept. 29 held a […]
In Defense of the Defense Attorney for SLAPPed Citizens
For those of you following the Boulder City Brouhaha, you should know that opponents – OK, one guy with a grudge and apparently without a life named Stephen Stubbs – claims the attorney representing the citizens of Boulder City who were sued by Boulder City for exercising their right to petition their government is….unethical.
How to Reduce Class Sizes while Reducing the Budget
In invoking hyperbole and rhetoric worthy of NSHE Chancellor Dan Klaich, the Clark County School District is moaning and groaning about much-needed budget cuts coming its way thanks to Gov. Brian Sandoval standing firm on his commitment not to raise taxes. Indeed, school board President Carolyn Edwards, a teacher’s union shill, lamented in a LVRJ […]
Boulder City SLAPPs Its Citizens Around
My friend Paul Jacob of the Citizens in Charge Foundation once was arrested in Oklahoma for defending the right of citizens to petition their government through the initiative process. So when he warned in January that public officials shouldn’t be allowed to “simply throw dissenters into a gulag and govern by decree,” he was speaking […]
The Potty-Mouthed Kid: Tera’s Tike Responds
Y’all remember Tera Burbank. She’s the liberal activist/unemployed construction worker/media heartthrob in Las Vegas who can’t find time to find a job, but finds time to organize protests against Republican Congressman Joe Heck and was busy lobbying for higher taxes in Carson City last week. If you missed the true Tera Burbank story, as opposed […]
Sunrise, Sunset….Either Way It’s a Tax Hike
I’ve heard that Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford – unable to budge even a single Senate Republican from their pledge not to vote to raise taxes – is now trying to cut deals, Harry Reid-style, with some Assembly Republicans, promising them all manner of taxpayer-funded goodies for their districts in return for their votes to […]
Assembly GOP Leader: The Weakest Link
Gov. Brian Sandoval has been and continues to be a rock in his commitment to balancing Nevada’s budget without raising taxes and fees. And after getting off to a bit of a rocky start, Senate Republicans have been right there with him. No tax hikes. No way. No how. Assembly Republican leaders; however, are and […]
ADA’s Slippery Slope to Absurdity
When most people think of the Americans for Disabilities Act, they think of mandatory wheel-chair ramps. But ambulance-chasing trial lawyers don’t think like you and me. They only see ridiculous and absurd ways to make a buck at somebody else’s expense, often taxpayers. Thus this story from Friday’s Baltimore Sun: “A federal appeals court upheld […]
Ticked Off About Taxing Water
Muth’s Truths reader Tim Marvin wrote to Assemblyman Tick Segerblom recently to voice opposition to Tick’s proposal to tax water, suggesting that spending cuts were the better way to go. To which the liberal Democrat from Las Vegas responded: “I do not support cutting spending, I support taxing luxuries and corporations which don’t pay anything! […]
Let’s Not Quibble; At Least They Can Dribble
Although what passes for leadership in the Republican Assembly Caucus can barely put out a press release or tweet that even comes close to informing the public in general, and fellow Republicans in particular, on the critical issues currently being fought in Carson City, their communications guru somehow found a way to tweet the following […]
Jim Rogers: Muth Has Less than Half a Brain
Nevada’s resident Bloviator-in-Chief; the High Priest of Hyperbole; the Pampered Prince of Pomposity, TV mogul Jim Rogers weighs in with a new ghost-written tweet today saying some very unkind and hurtful things about poor little me: I thought it was statistically impossible for one state as small as Nevada to have two intellectual lightweights like […]
Nevada Legislature vs. Big Gaming
As the 2011 Nevada Legislature chugs along, the state’s gaming industry is being pulled into two brouhahas it probably never expected when the opening gavel came down last month.
Brain-Dead Arguments for Mandatory Helmet Law
Nevada state Sen. Don Gustavson is back this legislative session with a pro-freedom bill to repeal Nevada’s mandatory motorcycle helmet law. SB 177 would let those who ride decide…and has significantly more backing this session than in previous sessions thanks in part to election losses by some nanny-staters (bye-bye, Sen. Nolan!). Also, the potential of […]