Feds Bailout Reno Firefighters, To Detriment Of Taxpayers »
(Jim Clark) – What drama. Washoe County recently gave Reno official notice of termination, effective July 1, of the 10-year-old contract under which Reno managed all fire protection services in the Truckee Meadows. The reason given was unsustainable costs, specifically the Reno Firefighter Union’s demand that every fire engine have a four-man crew despite the fact that the Sparks and North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection Districts have three-man “flex” crews. A pretty pricey demand since [...]
Remember to Thank Harry as You Shell Out More Greenbacks to His ‘Green’ Pals »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Take a close look at your most recent power bill. Look down to the itemized portion and find “Net electric.” Scroll to the right and you’ll see a number and KWH X .1185000 or some similar figure. That is the basic power price of 11.85 cents per kilowatt-hour. Mine actually went down a couple of hundredths of a cent during the billing cycle, probably due to continued decline in the price of [...]
Penciling Out ‘Green’ Energy: Politicians Still Can’t Figure Out the Math »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Out of the mouths of rubes. Nobody ever does the math when it comes to stories about “green” energy projects. I remember all the glowing stories about the huge array of solar panels at Nellis Air Force Base and how they would save the Air Force $1 million a year in power bills. President Obama and Sen. Harry Reid toured the facility and sang its praises. All the stories mentioned the savings [...]
Harry Wants You to Keep Paying His Campaign Backers for ‘Green’ Energy »
(Thomas Mitchell/(4TH ST8) Harry Reid wants Nevada to be powered by “green” energy, even if it costs the last dime of your money to pay his political contributors before they all go broke. During an interview on Nevada Newsmakers Tuesday, Sen. Reid criticized NV Energy for not purchasing even more “green” energy than they already do: “I don’t think NV Energy has done enough to allow renewable energy to thrive. I think a lot of [...]
Madison on ObamaCare: ‘If the Laws Be So Voluminous That They Cannot Be Read’ »
Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) When the debate turns into a cacophony of noise and people seem to be shouting over each other with arguments that twist and turn in upon themselves and degrade into mere name calling, it is time to return to the original concepts and reread the original text to grasp the foundational principles. Thus it is with the debate over ObamaCare. Though it carries the president’s name in the commonplace short-hand for the [...]
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 [...]
Nevada Should Join Utah and Arizona in Still Another Bid to Grab Federal Land »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) The Utah Legislature has approved legislation demanding that the federal government cede certain federally controlled lands to the state. A resolution accompanying the bill says such things as: “WHEREAS, the enabling acts of the new states west of the original colonies established the terms upon which all such states were admitted into the union, and contained the same promise to all new states that the federal government would extinguish title to all [...]
Reid’s Way to Increase Clean Energy ‘Demand’ Is Force Feeding »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) As per usual, Harry Reid’s tome on renewable energy projects in Nevada — “Playing to win in Clean Energy,” produced at your expense — leaves out as much as it tells. Harry touts SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes project near Tonopah, which will use mirrors to reflect sunlight on a 528-foot tower to liquefy salt and drive a turbine, as creating 600 jobs during construction, but fails to mention that it should take no [...]
President Obama, Not Governor Romney, Hurt Nevada’s Economy »
NN&V Exclusive (Gary Shapiro) – Now that he’s the frontrunner, Mitt Romney is beginning to feel the Democratic knives in his back as he travels around the country. Exhibit A is an opinion piece by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others in the Las Vegas Sun that came out after Romney’s Florida victory and before the Nevada caucus, blasting Romney for his “reckless ideas” and “out-of-touch vision” for Nevada. You can read my published [...]
Your Food Will Be No Safer, But It Sure Will Cost More, Thanks to Harry and Barry »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Leave it to Congress to kill a gnat with an anvil. Harry Reid takes to the pages of the Nevada Appeal today to celebrate the first anniversary of the Food Safety Modernization Act being signed by President Obama and to call for still more legislation at your expense. “We mark the one-year anniversary of that modern food safety law this month and, as food outbreaks and recalls have continued, we must remain [...]
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