Opinion
Gov. Gibbons: State of the State Budget
(Gov. Jim Gibbons) – As Governor, I recognize we have shortfalls and need to begin making plans for spending reductions to protect jobs and protect services. Preliminary indications show Nevada has spent in excess of 50-million dollars more than it has taken in — just in the first three months of the...
Chuck Muth December 9, 2009
Opinion
Oversight Report on Economic Stimulus finds 100 Low Priority Projects
(NN&V Staff) – U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) today released a new oversight report on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or economic stimulus bill. The Coburn-McCain report “Stimulus Checkup” examines how $7 billion in stimulus funds have been wasted, mismanaged, or directed toward silly and shortsighted...
Chuck Muth December 9, 2009
Opinion
Taxpayers Won’t Recover TARP Money if Congress Passes Obama’s New Bailout
(Americans for Limited Government) – Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today urged members of Congress to reject Barack Obama’s plan to bail out state governments with taxpayer funds paid back by banks through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), saying “taxpayers won’t recover one cent of TARP if Congress goes...
Chuck Muth December 9, 2009
Opinion
Gibbons to Approve Real ID Regulations Despite ACLU Objections
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – The ACLU of Nevada has sent a letter to Gov. Jim Gibbons asking him not to approve emergency regulations to bring the state into compliance with the federal Real ID Act. Allen Lichtenstein, general counsel to the ACLU of Nevada, said the act is an unfunded federal...
Chuck Muth December 9, 2009
Chuck Muth December 8, 2009
Opinion
Lake Inks Pledge, Joins Ranks of Taxpayer Champions
(Lake for Congress Campaign) – Craig Lake, candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in District 1 of Nevada in 2010, signed the ATR Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the Citizen Outreach’s monthly First Friday event at Stoney’s last Friday. In doing so he became the first candidate from District 1 to sign...
Chuck Muth December 8, 2009
Opinion
Do Government Bureaucrats Think We’re Stupid?
(Mark Noonan) – When the news came out that “only” 11,000 jobs were lost nationwide in November and the national unemployment rate went down to 10% from 10.2%, you could hear the sighs of relief from the people who (a) missed the crisis as it approached and (b) prescribed the wrong policies...
Chuck Muth December 8, 2009
Opinion
Angle Urges Reid to Deny Terrorists Access to U.S. Civilian Courts
(Angle for Senate Campaign) – Former Nevada Assemblywoman Sharron Angle (R-NV), a candidate running to unseat U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) in 2010, took time during Pearl Harbor Day to hand deliver a letter of request to Reid’s office at the Lloyd D. George Building in Las Vegas. The letter, written by...
Chuck Muth December 8, 2009
Opinion
Sanson Jr. to Run for State Senate
(Sanson for Senate Campaign) – The line of candidates who wish to fill the State Senate seat vacated by Senator Warren Harding just got longer. Republican and conservative candidate Steve W. Sanson Jr. has declared his candidacy for Nevada Senate District 12. Steve Sanson served as a combat medic in the Air...
Chuck Muth December 8, 2009
Opinion
AG Mulls Options After Judge Squashes Krolicki Prosecution
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said today she is reviewing the decision and considering her options in light of a ruling by a Clark County judge dismissing criminal charges against Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki. Masto spokeswoman Edie Cartwright had no other comment on the decision by...
Chuck Muth December 8, 2009
Opinion
Unemployment Insurance Fees to Remain Same for Businesses
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – The average tax rate most Nevada employers will pay to provide unemployment insurance coverage to their workers will remain at 1.33 percent for the coming year following a public hearing today. Cynthia Jones, administrator of the Employment Security Division, adopted the recommendation of the Employment Security Council...
Chuck Muth December 8, 2009
Chuck Muth December 7, 2009
Opinion
Who’s Funding Harry Reid?
(Jim Clark) – As we approach the 2010 midterm elections more and more Harry Reid ads are pushing the AFLAC duck and GEICO gecko off our television screens. Many are paid for by the teacher union and the Service Employees’ International Union but Senator Reid has his own stash of money to...
Chuck Muth December 7, 2009
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