Horsford’s F-ing F Street Boondoggle
At today’s budget hearing, the Nevada Department of Transportation requested $1,238,789.00 for the Southern Nevada RTC for the construction of a pet project of Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford to reopen the F Street underpass below I-15 in Las Vegas. And despite the fact that you can access downtown Las Vegas by driving or walking […]
Protected: RINO Hunting in Elko
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Tick’s Latest Folly
So what’s Assemblyman Tick Segerblom (D-Trial Lawyers) doing when not crafting legislation to force Victoria’s Secret to hire 300-pound sales gals? Crafting yet another premium-inflating government mandate on Nevada’s insurance companies. AB 89 would require “health insurance and health care policies to provide coverage for acupuncture treatments, including policies for state and local government employees.” […]
Goodbye UNLV, Hello Reagan U!
I’m surprised I hadn’t thought of this before, but I think maybe one of the reasons most people couldn’t care less about cutting the Nevada university system’s budget has nothing to do with a lack of appreciation and support for education, but a rejection of decades of liberal crap that’s been coming out of most […]
Rethinking that 5% Pay Cut for Gov’t Workers
Hey, here’s a thought. Since government employees are throwing hissy fits anyhow over a small 5 percent pay reduction to balance the budget, why not cut their pay by 10 percent and rack up a budget surplus. Then we could cut taxes as well as spending! I mean, if they’re gonna piss and moan anyway, […]
Teachers Union Boss Furious over Republican Educators Committee
The “Republican Teachers Coalition” is a registered group within the Clark County Republican Party which has endorse a Republican teacher, Scott Austin, who is running for a seat on the NSEA’s (state teachers union) Board of Directors. The coalition has a Standing Committee called the CCEA Republican Educators Committee. Well, apparently the Republican Educators Committee […]
Something New Stinks at the House of Horsford
Maybe it’s just me, but I think this stinks to the rafters. The higher ed folks are squealing like stuck pigs over proposed budget cuts the university system. They claim they’re already cut to the bone. But as was noted here yesterday, they still have some $400,000 to waste on a stupid “Office of Diversity […]
This is James Carville; This is James Carville on Crack
At the James Carville/Jeb Bush debate last night at UNLV, one moron declared that the GOP’s efforts to repeal ObamaCare was a complete waste of time since it never will happen because the Senate won’t approve it and has the votes to filibuster such an effort. And even if it got passed the Senate, Obama […]
NV Leads Nation in Employment…of Illegals
Who says Nevada is never at the top of any lists? According to the Pew Hispanic Center’s annual report published yesterday, “roughly 10 percent of Nevada workers are illegal immigrants who are not authorized by the federal government to work.” That’s the highest percentage in the nation. We’re #1! We’re #1!!
Some Post Dog-&-Pony Show Observations
Most media reports on last weekend’s anti-Sandoval dog-and-pony shows staged by Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford in Las Vegas and Reno put the attendance at around 1,400. However, it should be noted that quite a few of those in attendance weren’t protesting budget cuts, but were supporting Gov. Sandoval. But for argument’s sake, let’s say […]
Firefighter Sick Leave Abuse Just Plain Sickening
Some Clark County firefighters have been outrageously abusing the sick leave system according to emails recently reveal, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal notes this morning that “no firefighter or department manager has been fired or punished for misusing the sick leave system.” “The e-mails show that some firefighters worked with supervisors to arrange sick calls, […]
NSHE Cut to the Bone, eh?
In response to yesterday’s announcement that the UNLV College Republicans, in a spirit of shared sacrifice, were forgoing their university funding, reader Ron Gregrich writes: “Now, it is equally as important for other UNLV groups and departments to be encouraged to forgo their funding too. As I skim through the university budget, I find it […]
Free Tuition, Cash Rebates for Kids of University Workers?
Why are taxpayers of Nevada paying the tuition of the children of university employees? Better question, if the children of university employees are getting free tuition, why are they also getting Millennium Scholarships? In addition, if those children get free tuition AND Millennium Scholarships AND other scholarships, and the total exceeds the tuition at the […]
More Ways to Cut School District Budgets
In response to my column yesterday about minor proposed budget cuts to K-12, a NN&V reader wrote: “While I think teachers can take a cut in pay, I believe the Clark County School District is so top heavy it should be dismantled. Yes, a small percentage of them are at the top, but you could […]
Ending Welfare Program NOT a Tax Hike
Liberals are DESPERATELY trying to find some way to claim that Gov. Brian Sandoval has violated his promise not to balance the budget by raising taxes by calling anything and everything under the sun a “tax hike.” That has so far included potential tuition hikes and reallocation of local tax revenues. And now some are […]
Gov’t Still Can Do Less with Less
As long as the government still has enough money to pay glorified “meter maids” to patrol PRIVATE parking lots on Sunday afternoon and give out $75 “parking” tickets, not for having a lapsed vehicle registration, but for forgetting to put the government-issued post-it sticker on your license plate or having said sticker come off, then […]
Reading by 4th Grade vs. Reading by 4-Years Old
It’s hard for me to get excited about this whole “every kid will be able to read by third grade or he/she won’t be promoted to the next grade level” proposal when my four-year-old son just came in, hopped up on my lap, and read the entire 32-page Volume 2 “Dick and Jane” book. Seriously, […]