All posts tagged "Sandoval"

(Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt joined a federal lawsuit, Thursday, challenging new...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – In his Sunday column published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Steve Sebelius makes a valid point regarding the constitutionality of Nevada’s new Education Savings Accounts (ESAs).  He wrote… “Article 11, Section 10 of the Nevada Constitution reads, simply: ‘No public funds of any kind or character whatever, State, County...

  (Thomas Mitchell) – Gov. Brian Sandoval took the opportunity to bend the ear and twist the arm...

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – You can smell the fear. Any citizen effort to repeal all or part of the recently-passed largest tax hike in Nevada history – including a brand new business gross receipts tax (that you and I will ultimately pay for) just like the one rejected by some 80 percent...

(Thomas Mitchell) – The next time you top off your tank please make note of the fact that...

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Brian Sandoval said today the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court decisionupholding much of the Affordable Care Act on the state’s Medicaid program remain unclear. “The implications for Medicaid costs are still unclear, but Nevada will prepare to meet the serious financial implications of this decision,”...

(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...

(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – I’m currently reading CCSD’s 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and came across this gem....

(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...

(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,...

(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...

(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...

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Brian Sandoval today named James Guthrie, currently the senior fellow and...