All posts tagged "Business"
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Exposing Big Candy’s 3 Big Whoppers
It’s no secret that lobbyists for America’s largest sweets companies have been on a mission to unilaterally eliminate the U.S. sugar...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 27, 2017 -
Republic Services Can and Does Compete…Everywhere But Southern Nevada
For some reason some people seem to think it would be “rude” to ask Republic Services to actually compete for the...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 25, 2017 -
Las Vegas Trash Fight Heats Up on Campaign Trail
Efforts by the City of Las Vegas to grant Republic Services a new 15-year NO BID extension of its monopoly franchise...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 23, 2017 -
Yoho’s Zero-for-Zero Proposal Should also be Applied to Drug Importation
An op-ed defending U.S. sugar policy by the American Sugar Alliance (ASA) this week published by KTIC Radio out of Nebraska...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 23, 2017 -
Tolles Brings War on Tele-Medicine to Nevada Legislature
From Bruce DelValle last week came this dispatch from the political front-lines announcing that Nevada is again embroiled in yet another...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 22, 2017 -
PROOF: “Trash-Talking” Councilman is Misleading Public on Garbage Contract
Most members of the Las Vegas City Council have been pretty tight-lipped about a proposal to extend Republic Services monopoly franchise...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 21, 2017 -
Nevada GOP Legislator Proposes Banning the “Uber of Eyeglasses”
Longtime readers know how my stories and political adventures sometime take interesting, and even bizarre, twists and turns. Yep, this is...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 19, 2017 -
What the Las Vegas Garbage Contract Has in Common with King Tut’s Tomb
As the City of Las Vegas continues considering awarding Republic Services a new 15-year NO BID monopoly franchise contract extension for...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 14, 2017 -
“Stapling” Trash Collection in Las Vegas
A Bloomberg News article in Saturday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that office supply giant Staples intends to close 70 stores in...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 12, 2017 -
Republic Services Can Play Hardball and Sweeten the Pot…When It’s Forced To
As the City of Las Vegas considers granting a 15-year monopoly franchise agreement to Republic Services for residential and commercial trash...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 9, 2017 -
Why Las Vegas Should See if There’s a “Google Chrome” Trash Hauler Out There
As one old saying goes, when something works, don’t fix it. Another old saying, however, advises us not to put all...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 7, 2017 -
Hershey Layoff Announcement Exposes Folly of Dumping U.S. Sugar Program
By now we all know that tired arguments by Big Candy for unilaterally eliminating the U.S. sugar program: The global price...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 7, 2017 -
Thailand to Go “Cold Turkey” on Sugar Subsidies
The old saying is that those who say something can’t be done should get out of the way of people already...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthMarch 2, 2017 -
Big Brother Government + Crony Government = Bad Nevada Government
Nevada Democrats have gone bonkers. Not only are they suffering from a combination of PESD (Post-Election Stress Disorder) and TDS (Trump...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthFebruary 25, 2017 -
Hoover, Ford, Spiegel, Goodman and Beers Can’t All Be Wrong
In a recent tweet at the start of the 2017 Nevada legislative session, Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford (D-Las Vegas) wrote…...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthFebruary 19, 2017 -
Congress Needs to Learn from Hawaiian Sugar Disaster & Prevent Its Spread
It’s said all good things must come to an end. But for Hawaii’s sugar industry, that end is anything but sweet....
Chuck MuthChuck MuthFebruary 15, 2017 -
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Walk into a Bakery…
Turns out it was no campaign act. “He used to love Oreos,” a former Donald Trump campaign aide told Axios.com recently,...
Chuck MuthChuck MuthFebruary 8, 2017