The Mind-Blowing Arrogance of Government School Bureaucrats
The Final Battle approaches as the 2017 Nevada Legislature mercifully draws to an inglorious conclusion. It’s a battle over a half-loaf of bread that never should have been necessary in the first place. But when your state is led by “America’s Worst Governor,” stuff happens. I’m talking, of course, about funding for Nevada’s landmark parental […]
Did Gov. Sandoval Order the “Code Red” on Adam Laxalt?
The Democrats’ Grand Inquisition of Nevada Attorney General, and likely GOP gubernatorial candidate, Adam Laxalt over “The Burnett Tape” nevertheless revealed some interesting information – at least as it pertains to how the existence of the recordings got leaked in the first place. As you’ll recall, Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett secretly recorded a […]
Democrats’ Witch Hunt of Laxalt Exposed as Klingon Show Trial
In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy were falsely accused of assassinating Klingon Chancellor Gorkon and subjected to a staged show trial orchestrated by the dastardly Klingon General Chang. Kirk and McCoy were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. That plot was more believable than the Democrat’s recently staged […]
Burnette’s “Laxalt Tapes” Story Smells Fishier than Shamu’s Tank
Do you believe in coincidences? Especially in politics? Neither does Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks over the effort by Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett to “set up” unannounced Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt, Nevada’s sitting attorney general, by secretly recording a conversation in a private meeting the pair had over a year ago. You […]
Democrat Assembly-Waitress Sets Up Legislative Circus Tent over Secret “Laxalt Tapes”
OK, let me get this straight… A government bureaucrat who chairs the Gaming Control Board secretly taped a conversation with Republican Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt over a year ago without Laxalt’s knowledge or permission, turned the secret recording over to the FBI, which then investigated what was said in the conversation, and determined that […]
How Sly Nevada Legislators are Trying to Sneak around the Gibbons Tax Restraint Law
The tax-hikers among us are as unscrupulous as they are relentless. At issue this time in Nevada are a pair of cunningly wily bills: Senate Bill 149 and Assembly Bill 375. But before talking about these scams, everyone needs to understand something about how Nevada’s government is set up. The various counties and cities do […]
Why I Support Judge Almase’s Re-Election
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I met with incumbent Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Heidi Almase and am personally supporting her in the District 3 general election on June 13th. Among the reasons… 1.) As my own attorney put it, we shouldn’t kick good judges off the bench simply because somebody else wants […]
Why I Won’t Let Go of the Las Vegas Trash Contract Fiasco
Someone once described me as “a dog on a bone” when it comes to certain issues; I just won’t let them go. And that’s certainly true when it comes to this issue of the Las Vegas City Council earlier this month handing Republic Services a billion-dollar NO BID contract extension for picking up the city’s […]
Beers’ “Yell Like Hell” Table-Pounding Doesn’t Excuse Inexcusable Trash Vote
I think the worst part of Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers’ vote on April 5 to bequeath Republic Services that billion-dollar NO BID monopoly trash collection contract is the intellectual dishonesty of his excuses for doing so as outlined in a pair of emails to a constituent this week. In attempting to defend the […]
Bombshell Discovery: SoS Goes on Vote Fraud “Witch Hunt,” Actually Catches Witches!
Here’s another Nevada story with big national implications… But before delving into yesterday’s revelation that Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske has uncovered PROOF that illegal aliens voted illegally in the 2016 elections, let’s set the stage properly… Back in 2011, Wade Wagner defeated incumbent North Las Vegas City Councilman Richard Cherchio 1,831 to 1,830. […]
Forget “Harry Reid International,” Airport User Fee Change is What’s Really Needed
While lame-o Democrats in Carson City have wasted time talking about a silly bill to rename McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas after former Sen. Harry Reid, a far more serious discussion on airport infrastructure projects is going on in Washington, DC. And any discussion of infrastructure spending necessarily demands a discussion on how to […]
Beers Misled Public on No-Bid Trash Contract Vote, Law
At its regular meeting on April 5, 2017, the Las Vegas City Council voted 5-2 to hand Republic Services a new 14-year, billion dollar, NO BID contract to pick up the city’s trash after a bold and, it appears, remarkably untrue statement by Republican Councilman Bob Beers. In a video clip aired on Sunday by […]
Nevada Legislature Resurrects “Screw Jim Rhodes” Bill – and Adds Taxpayers!
Assembly Bill 277 was heard in committee on Friday. The bill prohibits development in national conservation or recreational areas, as well as “adjacent lands.” “Adjacent lands” is defined in the bill, as submitted, as any land within five miles of such conservation or recreational areas. Frankly, it doesn’t matter if the land is privately owned […]
Nevada Legislature Fights City Hall over Trash Hauling Monopolies
On Thursday a bill (SB315) was heard in Carson City that would start Nevada on the road to opening up the waste-hauling business to greater competition. Not surprisingly, the main opposition came from Waste Management – which has the exclusive monopoly contract for residential and commercial trash pickup in Reno – and Republican Services – […]
Las Vegas City Staff: Trust Us, We’re Not Gonna Be the “Lemonade Stand Police”
How many kids do you know who started a business at the age of 3 ½? Ryan Hickman of San Juan Capistrano, CA visited a recycling center when he was a toddler. The next day he proudly announced to his dad, “My new business! I’m going to pick up all the cans and bottles from […]
I Love the Smell of Nuclear Waste in the Morning!
Here are three realities as they relate to the Yucca Mountain Project… 1.) Nuclear waste – in the form of “pellets,” not green goo oozing from under the lids of steel canisters – is piling up at the nation’s nuclear reactors and has to go “somewhere” else. 2.) The law of the land – rightly […]
Competition Works in Both Insurance AND Trash Collection
I just re-learned a lesson about free-market competition yesterday that every member of the Las Vegas City Council should bear in mind before it rubber-stamps a 15-year, no bid monopoly franchise agreement extension for trash pickup by Republic Services at next week’s meeting. We’ve been in our Las Vegas home for eight years now. Travelers […]