Opinion
Non-Union Contractor Wins Huge Fight with Rory Reid’s County Commission
(NN&V Staff) – A Federal District Court Judge on Tuesday awarded a $112 million contract to Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., the low bidder for work on the northern 215 Beltway project, ending months of legal battles and saving the tax payers $4.6 million. Since April, Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. has...
Chuck Muth January 6, 2010
Opinion
Republican Lake Joins Uphill Race Against Berkley
(Craig Lake) – I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Craig Lake and I am proud to be running for Nevada’s 1st Congressional District against Shelley Berkley. I am a native of the Las Vegas Valley, where I am proud to call home. I have been blessed...
Chuck Muth January 6, 2010
Opinion
University Chief Finds Places to Cut Spending After All
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Chancellor Dan Klaich has informed the state budget office that the higher education system will participate in a budget cutting exercise in the event spending reductions are needed due to lower than expected tax revenues. In a letter to state Budget Director Andrew Clinger sent Monday, Klaich...
Chuck Muth January 6, 2010
Chuck Muth January 5, 2010
Opinion
Economic Forum to Weigh in on State General Fund Budget on Jan. 22
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – The Nevada Economic Forum will meet Jan. 22 to provide its analysis of state general fund revenue collections for the remainder of the two-year budget to Gov. Jim Gibbons and the Legislature. Gibbons asked the panel, made up of five private citizens with fiscal expertise charged with...
Chuck Muth January 5, 2010
Opinion
Vegas Businesswoman Announces for State Senate
(Michele Fiore) – My name is Michele Fiore and I am proud to announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Senate, District 9. Poor decisions by career politicians have left our state in near-ruin. Contrary to their claims, we are not on the road to recovery. We can no longer...
Chuck Muth January 5, 2010
Opinion
Washoe County Commissioner Announces Bid for State Senate Seat
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Washoe County Commissioner Bob Larkin announced today he is a candidate for the Nevada State Senate in District 2, saying he wants to continue the high level of service for residents of the district provided by outgoing Sen. Maurice Washington, R-Sparks. “Additionally, the budget challenges that the...
Chuck Muth January 5, 2010
Opinion
Two Americas: One Struggling – One Happy, Unionized, and in Government
(Warner Todd Huston) – I know I’ve said it before, but unionism is antithetical to good government. It is impossible to have both unions and effective government in a democratic republic such as ours. Unions destroy good government, waste money at all levels and they move strictly against the best interests of...
Chuck Muth January 5, 2010
Opinion
No More Cruel and Unusual?
(Paul Jacob) – In recent years there’s been a spate of so-called “zero tolerance” policies — actually, zero common sense policies — in our schools, especially after Columbine and 9/11. Last October in Delaware, six-year-old Zachary Christie faced 45 days of reform school for bringing a camping utensil to lunch. The gizmo...
Chuck Muth January 5, 2010
Chuck Muth January 4, 2010
Opinion
Educrat Calls Oath Keepers “Lunatic Fringe”
(Chuck Muth) – Gene Paslov, former Nevada superintendent of Nevada’s failed public schools and liberal lion of Carson City, wrote a column for the Nevada Appeal this weekend which began thusly: “The Congressional Republicans are getting ugly. They refuse to do what they were elected to do – negotiate, compromise and implement...
Chuck Muth January 4, 2010
Opinion
The Debt We Owe
(Mark Noonan) – 2009 certainly turned out to be a year to forget about. Economic collapse, mis-managed war in Afghanistan, continual corruption in government, purblind liberals pushing policies which will wreck the country. Our great State of Nevada has actually been so badly governed that we lost population. There was just so...
Chuck Muth January 4, 2010
Opinion
The Great Zadrowski Announces Run for JP 14
(NN&V Staff) – Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski announced today that he is seeking the judgeship of Las Vegas Justice Court, Department 14. Zadrowski, a prosecutor in the DA’s office for over a dozen years, will run for Justice of the Peace in 2010 for a six-year term. He...
Chuck Muth January 4, 2010
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