A Way to Increase Government Efficiency Through Privatization »
NN&V Exclusive (David Mansdoerfer) – As any real conservative would tell you, government is generally inefficient – especially when it comes to funding social services and education. Layers of bureaucratic mess, combined with funding mandates, have left many social service programs in a rut. As social service programs are often decried as being underfunded, while also lacking the ability to adapt, new funding systems need to be considered going forward. Now, imagine a system that [...]
Listen to our E-Interview with Herman Cain »
On September 28, 2011 Citizen Outreach offered our readers an exclusive e-interview with Presidential candidate Herman Cain. If you would like to listen to this interview please click on the segments below. Citizen Outreach E-Interview with Herman Cain – Part 1 Citizen Outreach E-Interview with Herman Cain – Part 2
Nevada Test Site Draft Plan Questioned At DOE Public Hearing »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Speakers at the fifth and final public hearing to comment on a draft environmental statement that seeks to map the future of the former Nevada Test Site expressed a variety of concerns Wednesday, including a failure to adequately address contamination of groundwater at the site. Another concern focused on an indication in the document for what is now called the Nevada National Security Site that a previous agreement with the [...]
A Bad Business Plan Doesn’t Make You A Crook »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – This is probably going to surprise my regular readers a bit, but I have a hard time getting too worked up over the bankruptcy of Solyndra and the Obama administration’s faux pas in pushing the Department of Energy to grant a half a billion dollar loan guarantee to prop them up. Even with their executives’ cheesy pleading of the fifth before Congress. Now I need to be clear. I don’t [...]
Internet Access Like Water To Small Towns In America »
(Michael Chamberlain/Nevada Business Coalition) – A group of free market proponents is traveling from Nevada to Washington, D.C. to urge Congress not to let rural America fall behind when it comes to broadband Internet. Broadband WORKS for Rural America is sending the delegation to the nation’s capital during the first week of October “to remind our representatives in Congress of the pressing need to support efforts to expand high-speed Internet access for rural Nevada and [...]
Power To The People »
NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – “The voice of the people is more powerful than the voice of the media.” So began a teleconference with Herman Cain on Wednesday afternoon. “The media has said, and they’re trying to make, this is a two-person race. It’s not. It’s a three-person race.” Cain won the Florida straw poll, besting both Perry and Romney by nearly double. “Perry and Romney spent a considerable amount of money to influence the [...]
Southern Hills Relives Terrorist Attack »
(Lori Piotrowski) – More than 200 listened attentively to the story that riveted the nation’s attention on October 12, 2000. Just 11 months before the attack on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and UA #93, the U.S.S. Cole was attacked while refueling in port of Aden, Yemen. Kirk Lippold was commander of the Cole, and he was speaking to the Southern Hills Republican Women’s September luncheon crowd. Lippold brought along some slides to show [...]
Teachers Union Leaders Awarded Double-Digit Raises »
(Michael Chamberlain/Nevada Business Coalition) – The economy is booming, haven’t you noticed? If not, you must not be a member of a government employee union. The local teachers union, the Clark County Education Association, has awarded its President and Vice President 14% pay raises, from $90,000 to $103,000, according to sources. The raises were included as part of the union’s new budget, which was approved at a meeting last night. The union currently does not [...]
Clear Government Out Of Path Of Progress »
(Michael Chamberlain/Nevada Business Coalition) – Part II of our interview with Bank of Nevada President and COO John Guedry. Today’s segment focuses on where we are now and the roles of industry and government in getting us through.Part I is here. NBC: Isn’t a problem that we have that people do things that are already illegal or unethical then we try to make laws to deal with that behavior? That pushes those same people into [...]
Educators Take Issue With Fresh Look’s Innovative Suggestions »
NN&V Exclusive (On Friday, we looked at the Fresh Look of Nevada’s Community Colleges, a report of the state of the college system in the Silver State. This article looks deeper into some of the issues raised by Fresh Look. – Ed.) (Lori Piotrowski) – At a meeting of the Nevada Faculty Alliance (that’s the faculty union) in January, 2009, professors, assistant professors, and instructors met to discuss how to lobby their assembly members and [...]
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