Selection Process For New Agency Director Questioned By Board Member »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A member of the state Transportation Department Board of Directors questioned today the proposed selection process for a new agency director. Member Tom Fransway questioned whether the construction industry should be involved in the process of selecting the finalists to bring to the board for an appointment to replace Director Susan Martinovich, who is retiring on Sept. 6. Fransway said the director and governor should pick the finalists. At that [...]
State Funding ‘Cut’ Results In Increased Funding To CCSD »
(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – I’m currently reading CCSD’s 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and came across this gem. In their transmittal letter, CCSD Superintendent Dwight Jones and CCSD School Board President Carolyn Edwards write (p. xviii): During fiscal year 2010, the Nevada legislature was forced to respond to continued declines in revenues and cut state aid to the district from their original budgeted amounts. The result was that the District only received an additional $10 per pupil [...]
State Funding For Education Increased In Last Legislative Session, Remember? »
(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – One of the many, many terrible things to come out of yesterday’s news that Gov. Brian Sandoval and presumed Republican legislative leaders, Sen. Michael Roberson and Assemblyman Pat Hickey, are supporting tax increases is the way they inaccurately described state education funding. Here’s a sampling. Gov. Sandoval’s statement: In addition to avoiding further cuts to education, this decision means there will be no need for tax increases in the next session. Nevadans [...]
AD 39 Candidate Wheeler Opposes Sandoval’s Tax Increases »
(Gardnerville, NV) - March 15, 2012 – Jim Wheeler, Republican candidate for State Assembly District 39, released the following statement regarding Governor Brian Sandoval’s announcement proposing yet another renewal of the 2009 “temporary” tax increases. These taxes were to expire by law in 2011, before they were renewed during the 2011 Legislative Session, to expire in 2013. The Governor now proposes a new tax-bill extending them out to 2015. I strongly oppose the $620 Million tax [...]
Sandoval Back-pedals On Sunsetting Taxes »
(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Taxpayers lose again with Governor Brian Sandoval’s decision to propose extending the so-called “sunset” taxes. This demonstrates, once again, the danger behind the concept of a “temporary” tax increase. Once bureaucracy becomes dependent on that additional revenue to sustain itself, the tax increase rarely goes away. In 2010, Governor Sandoval stated that raising taxes is “the worst possible thing you can do” after a recession. His statement is as correct today as [...]
Nevadans Back Yucca Mountain, Sandoval Wants It Gone »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Brian Sandoval sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today making it clear that he does not support any type of nuclear waste disposal or interim storage at Yucca Mountain. “There should be no uncertainty or misunderstanding of my position with regard to an interim spent fuel storage site or repository site in Nevada; the state of Nevada does not support the location of any such [...]
Sandoval Appoints James Guthrie To Top Public School Position »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Brian Sandoval today named James Guthrie, currently the senior fellow and director of education policy studies at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas, as Nevada’s new public schools chief. Guthrie, who will be based in Las Vegas, will begin his job as state superintendent of public instruction on April. 2. He succeeds current Superintendent Keith Rheault, who is retiring. Sandoval selected Guthrie from three names forwarded to him [...]
Nevada’s Rosy Jobless Numbers Courtesy of a Computer? »
(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8) The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation came out this morning with the January unemployment numbers. The agency says Nevada’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate fell from a revised 13 percent in December to 12.7 percent in January, down from 13.8 percent a year ago and a peak of 14 percent in October 2010. “Nevada continues to show signs of economic recovery, with slow but steady growth in many important areas,” a new [...]
There’s Work To Be Done To Continue Sandoval’s Budget, Bureaucracy Cuts »
(Jim Clark) – Nevada Policy Research Institute is a Las Vegas-based think tank, not unlike the Heritage Foundation at the national level, which identifies the Silver State’s problems and researches for free-market solutions. They draw their conclusions and make recommendations. They then post them on their web site (www.npri.org) at no charge to any one who has an interest. NPRI Chairman Ranson Webster recently hosted a meeting of NPRI’s advisory council in Reno. Special guest [...]
Sandoval Encourages Business Growth By Freezing Regulations »
(Carson City, NV) – Speaking at the Chamber’s Directions 2012 event in Reno this morning, Governor Sandoval announced the results of his administration’s regulatory review. In his first executive order as Governor, Sandoval imposed a one-year freeze on all regulations and required the Cabinet to thoroughly review the entire regulatory framework of the state. During the freeze, all regulations were reviewed to determine if they were still necessary, to identify any adverse impact on business, [...]
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