About Those “Massive” Budget Cuts and Tuition Hikes
OK, so now I’m watching Tuesday’s “Nevada Newsmaker” program. One of the guests is Dr. Maria Sheehan, president of Truckee Meadows Community College. Not surprisingly, Dr. Sheehan is complaining about the – hyperbole alert! – “massive cuts” to the university system. The good doctor is saying the cuts mean TMCC will have to eliminate “personal […]
Stupid Is as Las Vegas Does
Want to attract business to downtown Las Vegas, especially to the older, run-down section know as East Fremont Street? Here’s a tip: STOP SCREWING PEOPLE who come downtown to patronize downtown businesses! So I go downtown to see my attorney this morning after doing KNPR’s “State of Nevada” program…and we decide to go grab lunch. […]
Some Hoping Angle Challenges Heller, but Not for Usual Reason
Sharron Angle still retains a hard core of social conservative supporters in Nevada, but a large and growing number of GOP primary voters appear to be suffering “Angle fatigue.” You can only lose so many races – Angle has now lost three in a row – before people, even people who like you, start looking […]
Union, Government Agree to Terms… Taxpayers Get Screwed Again
(Chuck Muth) – The deal struck and announced on Monday between the Clark County government negotiators and the greedy SEIU, the extortionist union representing some 5,500 local government workers, should be rejected by the county commissioners when they meet to consider the agreement on April 5th. Actually, rejected isn’t good enough. The agreement should be […]
The Ensign Chronicles
Oops, almost missed linking to this story about John Ensign’s announcement that he wasn’t running for re-election, including these brief Muth’s Truths: Chuck Muth, a conservative activist in Nevada, had called on Mr. Ensign to resign after the affair was made public. “I wish he had come to that conclusion much sooner but better late […]
SEIU takes Clark County taxpayers to the cleaners…again
According to RalstonFlash, “here’s what just went out to county officials from (Clark County) finance boss George Stevens:” This is to advise you that we have reached a tentative agreement with SEIU on certain economic issues relative to the FY 2010-11 collective bargaining agreement. The agreement includes the following provisions: * An across the board […]
Leslie’s Lament over Not Raising Taxes
Sen. Sheila Leslie, D-Reno, chairwoman of the Senate Revenue Committee, whines in today Las Vegas Review-Journal that “What we need is a serious discussion about raising more revenue. And that’s not happening.” The reason it’s not happening, of course, is that Leslie and her Democrat colleagues who control both the Assembly and the Senate refuse […]
Can you “rob” someone of money that isn’t theirs?
I read something interesting a couple weeks ago about Gov. Sandoval’s budget written by David Schwartz of the Las Vegas Sun which I neglected to comment on at the time. According to the story, Sandoval proposes to shift $425 million (since reduced) from a Clark County capital projects fund, which, according to Sandoval critics, this […]
Meet the new John Ensign; Same as the old John Ensign
Much like most of the Republican Party and the conservative movement in Nevada, John Ensign hasn’t given me the time of day for the last 15 years. But while still under the delusion that he had a shot at winning re-election two weeks ago, he calls with a “Hey, whatever happened to us? Why are […]
Lee Proposes Mandatory Tax Hike for Parks
Ben Spillman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports today on a proposal by State Sen. John Lee (D-North Las Vegas) which would require that every automobile owner in the state pay a new mandatory $3 fee each year to register your vehicle in exchange for getting you into Nevada’s 25 state parks for “free.” Of […]
Roberson to Mining on Taxes: Up Yours!
Freshman Sen. Michael Roberson has proved to be a real ray of sunshine for conservatives early on in this legislative session. Not only has he been willing to speak up and speak out…he “gets it.” When it comes to mining taxation, for example, Roberson understands that whether or not mining is paying its fair share […]
Mortensen Hearts Taxes, IRS
How did Nevada get into the economic mess we find ourselves in today? By putting Democrats like former Assemblyman Harry Mortensen in charge of our Legislature for the last 20-plus years, that’s how. In a letter-to-the-editor published on Sunday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mortensen – mercifully out of office thanks to term limits – […]
Why more taxpayers aren’t upset with education budget cuts?
Hmm….let’s see. The teachers unions are as liberal as the day is long and run our public schools. Meanwhile, America’s public universities are well-known as not much more than liberal indoctrination centers. Meanwhile, both K-12 and higher ed are being subjected to budget cuts and almost no one, except hard-core liberals seems worked up about […]
Prof. “Pravda” Pravica Strikes Again
Today brings us another example of how having a college degree doesn’t mean you know squat. Exhibit A is a taxpayer-funded physics professor at taxpayer-subsidized UNLV. In a letter-to-the-editor published Sunday by the Las Vegas Sun, Michael Pravica – whose part-time hobby supplementing his $123,000 a year job sitting in a climate-controlled classroom all day […]
The Chancellor Who Cried Wolf
Dan Klaich, chancellor of the Nevada university system, has become a joke. The guy’s been running around yelling “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” over proposed budget cuts almost since the day he was appointed to replace Jim Rogers, who took such Chicken Little rhetoric over budget cuts to a whole new level […]
School that “persistently” sucks getting much-needed make-over
Chaparral High School in Clark County “persistently” sucks. According the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the school is currently “in its sixth year of needing to show academic improvement under No Child Left Behind.” As such, the school district finally decided to take some drastic action. It applied for a federal grant which requires the school to […]
Tera Burbank Update
Shortly after posting an earlier query regarding how the AP reporter, Christina Silva, dug up Tera Burbank from among all of Nevada’s unemployed, Christina advised me via Twitter that she found Tera at the same place I did – at a dog-and-pony-show-disguised-as-a-town-hall-meeting put on a few weeks ago at the Grant Sawyer Building. Indeed, as […]