Whatsamatta with Woodhouse? »
(Chuck Muth) – I am so sick and tired of giving nice elderly ladies like Joyce Woodhouse a pass on the disastrous results their policies lead to simply because they are well-intentioned. But tryin’ don’t get the job done. The fact is Joyce Woodhouse and her likeminded colleagues are the problem, not the solution.
Raggio: Don’t pay Moody’s for half a job »
(Steve Sebelius/Slash Politics) – State Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio today said he doesn’t think the state should pay Moody’s Analytics at all, in light of the revelation the company will not fulfill a portion of its contract to study Nevada’s tax system. “I am extremely disappointed and angry,” said Raggio. The Reno Republican pushed for a tax study during the 2009 Legislature so lawmakers would have independent information from a respected source to use [...]
Nevada Healthcare Tax Credit Numbers Don’t Add Up »
(Randi Thompson/NFIB) – “We’re from Washington and we’re here to help” never had a more hollow ring or was more factually baseless than in the claims made by some health reform supporters in the number of small businesses that would qualify for the new health insurance tax credit passed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. “Supporters claim 4 million small businesses are eligible for the temporary credit, but the fact is less than [...]
DefCon18 in Las Vegas: Hackers, education, and the “Race to the Top” »
(Samantha Stone/Reasonable Reporter) – The major theme coming out of the world’s largest hacker conference this year sounds quite benign, considering DefCon’s reputation as a venue for barely legal activity. But many of Friday’s sessions echoed a call for education, lest the world’s most prosperous nation sink under a powerful tide of cybercrime that threatens both our prosperity and our national security. The Reasonable Reporter has long compared the average American to a little old [...]
Why the 9/11 Mosque Controversy Is NOT About Religious Freedom »
(Wayne Allyn Root) – As one of America’s leading Libertarian thinkers, perhaps I’m always expected to give the “Libertarian answer” to every issue. But sometimes one has to speak not as a Libertarian, Republican or Democrat, but rather as an American – preferably a common sense American. The issue of allowing a mosque to be built in the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist tragedy is one of those times. The answer is simple for a [...]
List Blasts Reid For False Ad Claiming To Have Saved Teacher’s Job »
Former Nevada governor and state Republican Committeeman Bob List yesterday called on Sen. Harry Reid to stop running a television ad claiming to have saved a school teacher’s job with federal stimulus funds.
Legislature Strikes Deal With Firm To Complete Portion Of Study »
(Nevada News Bureau Staff) – The Nevada Legislature has reached agreement with a firm hired to help analyze the state’s revenue structure to complete a portion of the project. The agreement reached with Moody’s Analytics requires the firm to finish the Nevada Vision Stakeholder Group portion of the contract by Sept. 15. It will require more work by the firm and two more meetings of the Vision Stakeholder Group, but the payment will remain at [...]
As tax-study scheme crumbles, lawmakers should consider ‘One Sound State’ »
(Nevada Policy Research Institute) – A fiscal policy analyst with the Nevada Policy Research Institute said today that the Interim Finance Committee’s partial cancellation of its contract with Moody’s Analytics, which the IFC hired to study the state’s tax structure, means that the legislature is now essentially paying for a spending wish list from the Nevada Vision Stakeholder Group with no plan for determining how to pay for it. “From the beginning, the legislature’s agenda [...]
Trouble for Nevada’s Foreclosure Mediation Program »
(Mark Noonan) – From the Las Vegas Sun: …The program Friday released the first-year results showing that 29 percent of lenders did not appear for mediation sessions, had no authority to make a deal or did not bring all the documentation required. Nevada has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation, and 11,716 people applied for the state program to get a chance to meet with their lender to work something out with [...]
Smears Against Tea Parties Contrived Political Strategy »
(Bill Wilson/ALG) – The attacks on the tea party movement and other citizen activists are continuing. This time, the DNC has unveiled its latest effort to portray tea parties, and Republicans, as radicals and extremists. This effort, www.republicanteapartycontract.com, is nothing more than a series of misrepresentations of popular ideas like repealing ObamaCare and the financial takeover, eliminating whole departments and agencies in the federal government, keeping taxes low, etc. but it is occurring in a [...]
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