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A Slow Uncomfortable Screw
Here it comes. The big 2009 Nevada tax hike is right around the corner. Legislators need only to put the finishing...
May 5, 2009 -
Just Like B.O.
Our good friend and former Nevada GOP executive director Dan Burdish noticed an absolutely priceless item in today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal....
May 5, 2009 -
The Responsible Budget Alternative
The Economic Forum said Friday that the state can expect enough revenue over the next two years to afford about $5.1...
May 3, 2009 -
The Moose is Loose
Democrat Ways & Means Committee Chairman Morse “Moose” Arberry is pushing a bill that would force his bank to extend him...
May 3, 2009 -
The American Way is Not American Idol
Assembly Bill 413 would change the way the President of the United States is elected without going through the messy process...
May 3, 2009 -
Sebelius Makes Outrageous Accusation!
On Mitch Fox’s most excellent “Nevada Week in Review” television show on Friday, our good buddy, Bob Beers look-alike and CityLife...
May 2, 2009 -
Still Need to Clear the Dead Wood
Gov. Jim Gibbons called the idea of raising taxes in the middle of this recession “foolish” – he’s right – and...
May 1, 2009 -
People Will Die!!!
In response to the governor’s announcement about government employee pay reductions, Democrat Speaker Barbara Buckley, true to form, squawked about the...
May 1, 2009 -
Where’s the Democrat Alternative?
Democrats yesterday whined and complained and bitched and kvetched about the governor’s new proposal for higher government employee pay cuts, with...
May 1, 2009 -
Gansert Must Go
Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert is the GOP’s Minority Leader. She’s already voted for, even advocated for, passage of the second largest tax...
May 1, 2009 -
Tax Talk
The Economic Forum will meet tomorrow and tell legislators how much money they’ll have to work with in passing a budget...
April 30, 2009 -
Gibbons Getting His Groove Back?
After famously breaking his Taxpayer Protection Pledge by including a $292 million room tax hike in his budget last January –...
April 30, 2009 -
The Nevada Freedom Budget
Back in January, Gov. Jim Gibbons introduced a balanced budget of around $6.2 billion, with a $292 million room tax hike...
April 30, 2009 -
Specter Republicans Strike Again
Assembly Bill 229 would require cigarette manufacturers to sell only “fire-safe” cigarettes – an oxymoron if there ever was one –...
April 30, 2009 -
Weighing In on the Raggio Tax Hike
Make no mistake, state Sen. Bill Raggio (R-Reno) is still the Senate Majority Leader – it’s just a bi-partisan majority that...
April 30, 2009
