All posts tagged "Ralston"

In 2003, a couple of assemblymen cobbled together a coalition of their colleagues to block a tax increase. They held up the session until mid-July when the late John Marvel broke ranks and dissolved the so-called Mean/Fearless Fifteen. (The adjective depended on your perspective.) The $830 million tax increase passed, albeit without...

(Chuck Muth) – In a column critical of NPRI’s 2011 ratings of Nevada legislators today, Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston wrote about the conservative think tank’s “disgust” with the budget deal, “as if there were some massive expansion of government that occurred.” “I repeat the facts,” Jon writes.  “In 2009, lawmakers...