Highly Paid Teaching Couple Prefers High Salary Over Improving Qualifications »
(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – Don’t shoot the messenger; teacher Vicki Steffenhagen is the one who wrote that. Vicki Steffenhagen is an English teacher who earned $88,432.90 in 2011. Her husband, a high school counselor, earned $104,895.88 in 2011. That’s total compensation of over $193,000 in 2011. If you just look at base pay, Vicki and her husband received over $135,000 last year. With that in mind, here’s part of Vicki’s recent letter to the editor to [...]
Segerblom Proud That EPA Regs Scrapped 3 Nevada Coal Power Plants »
(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – In case you needed any more evidence that President Obama’s “all of the above” talking point on energy policy is a joke, Nevada Assemblyman “Tick” Segerblom, D.-Clark County, just wrote an op-ed bragging about how a recent ruling from Obama’s EPA will kill coal power. Media analysts from left and right are predicting that the most recent EPA rule-making decision spells the ultimate end of Big Coal as utilities turn to cleaner, [...]
Judge Rejects Gaming Tax Petition, Supporters To File New Version »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A Carson City District judge today rejected an initiative petition proposing to create a new and higher rate of taxation for Nevada’s largest casinos, finding that the 200 word description of effect of the measure was misleading. In rejecting the petition, Judge James Todd Russell said he did not believe he had the authority to rewrite the description himself. Las Vegas businessman Monte Miller, who attended the hearing on his [...]
Nevada Schools Lose Out On Federal Funding – Again »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Nevada is out of the running for next round of federal Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge funds to improve early childhood education. Nevada submitted its application in November 2011. The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services announced today that $133 million from the 2012 Race to the Top fund will be available for continued investments in state-level, comprehensive early education reform. The agencies have invited the next [...]
Nearly 1,000 Nevada Public Employees Earn $200K »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Nearly 1,000 state and local government workers, many of them firefighters and police, make over $200,000 a year when all pay and benefits are counted, according to a 2011 pay analysis published today by the Nevada Policy Research Institute. The number of public employees earning $200,000 or more could be even higher, but the conservative think tank said some government entities, including the cities of Reno and Henderson, the Washoe [...]
Legislative Commission OKs Laughlin Incorporation Vote »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – The Legislative Commission voted [March 29] to let the residents of Laughlin decide in June on whether they will become Nevada’s next incorporated city. The 10-2 vote by the panel imposed several conditions, however, including a review by the 2013 Legislature that could delay any incorporation from the July 1, 2013 target date or overrule a favorable vote entirely if it determines it is not financially feasible. Two studies have presented [...]
Reno Could Stand To Learn From Vallejo, CA’s Return From Bankruptcy »
(Jim Clark) – News item: “Reno Mayor Bob Cashell and Washoe County Commission Chairman Bob Larkin were scheduled to meet to discuss the County’s contract with the City of Reno for coordination of firefighting services, which is faltering because of Reno’s generous contract with the firefighters’ union. Neither showed up.” There was a substantial crowd at the Republican Men’s Club of Reno meeting at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino last Friday. lots of folks were [...]
Equal Footing?: Nevada and Other Western States Got the Rug Pulled Out From Under Them »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) On Friday, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed House Bill 148, the latest volley in the long-running skirmish known as the Sagebrush Rebellion. The bill demands the United States extinguish title to federally occupied lands — about two-thirds of the state — and transfer title to the state of Utah on or before Dec. 31, 2014. I prefer the term “occupied” to controlled or owned. One major flaw with the bill is that [...]
Democrats Discriminate by Relegating People to Niches »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Democrats discriminate. And I mean that in the most pejorative sense of the word. Not in the sense that one has discriminating tastes — prefers the symphony to heavy metal. I mean Democrats herd people into niches and classify and identify and make assumptions about people, not by their level of discernment and powers of rational thought and deduction, but by their skin color, age, gender and ethnicity. In their worldview a [...]
They All Laughed at »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) in·vest·ment (in-vest-muhnt) noun: the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value. In announcing the president’s travels this week, the White House said: “On Wednesday, the President will begin the tour in Boulder City, Nevada where he will visit the Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility, the largest photovoltaic plant operating in the country with nearly one million solar panels powering 17,000 homes. [...]
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