“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 the U.S. this year. “The latest announcement comes almost a year after Staples’ failed attempt to acquire Office Depot,” the story noted. “Federal regulators blocked the merger on anti-trust grounds last May, arguing it […]
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 collection, some seem to be taking the attitude that it would be “rude” to ask such a benevolent company to actually compete for this $1 billion-plus contract in an open bidding process. But when […]
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 our eggs in one basket. And this is the heart of the debate on whether or not Las Vegas should give Republic Services a new 15-year, no-bid monopoly contract for trash collection in the […]
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 of sugar is lower than the domestic price and is the reason candy and sweets companies are moving their manufacturing operations out of the country. But a CNN Money story last week, “Hershey’s bitter […]
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 doing it. Those words of wisdom should be kept in mind by Members of Congress who say the U.S. sugar program can’t be reformed in such a way as to promote the principles of […]
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 Derangement Syndrome), but apparently they’ve been caught up in some kind of time warp. Liberal legislators have resurrected the silly ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) issue that was killed and buried 35 years ago, along […]
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… “As we are curating jobs we must protect those jobs. We want to give Nevada companies the first crack at state contracts.” I think he meant “creating,” not “curating” (darned auto-correct!), but the sentiment […]
Should Republicans Support the National Popular Vote Compact? Maybe…
If you’re a conservative like me, your knee-jerk reaction to any suggestion of changing our presidential elections to a national popular vote isn’t just no, but…” Heck (or stronger), no!” After all, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton both won the popular vote but lost the elections under the current system, right? But after attending a […]
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. “The Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company is closing up shop after more than a century,” Agri-Pulse.com reported last week, “bringing an end – at least for now – to commercial sugar farming and processing […]
How Las Vegas Can Clear the Foul Odor of Crony Government
Mayor Goodman Puts Her Finger on the Air Freshener the City Needs If Shakespeare were alive today he might declare that something is more rotten in the city of Las Vegas than the state of Denmark – especially since we’re talking about garbage. Republic Services has had the exclusive monopoly franchise for trash pickup in […]
Cloobeck Reveals Self to Be a Clueless on Sanctuary City
We’ve all heard of “Fake News” (see: CNN), but a liberal time share salesman named Steve Cloobeck on Tuesday introduced us all to the concept of “Fake Guest Column.” Clueless Clooby, a 2018 Democrat candidate for Nevada governor, used the Las Vegas Sun to scribble a campaign ad disguised as an op-ed. In it he […]
Ford Has No Mandate for His Far-Left Black-and-Blueprint
While new President Donald Trump bolted out of the starting gate and was halfway around the track before the left even knew the race had started, new Democrat Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford stumbled out of the gate over his two left feet on opening day of the 2017 Nevada Legislature. Indeed, on the very […]