Tax Talk

The Economic Forum will meet tomorrow and tell legislators how much money they’ll have to work with in passing a budget...

Gibbons Getting His Groove Back?

After famously breaking his Taxpayer Protection Pledge by including a $292 million room tax hike in his budget last January –...

The Nevada Freedom Budget

Back in January, Gov. Jim Gibbons introduced a balanced budget of around $6.2 billion, with a $292 million room tax hike...

Specter Republicans Strike Again

Assembly Bill 229 would require cigarette manufacturers to sell only “fire-safe” cigarettes – an oxymoron if there ever was one –...

Weighing In on the Raggio Tax Hike

Make no mistake, state Sen. Bill Raggio (R-Reno) is still the Senate Majority Leader – it’s just a bi-partisan majority that...

All About Arlen

A compendium of responses to Sen. Arlen Specter switching parties…

Adios and Good Riddance to Snarlin’ Arlen

“Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right,”...

You Only Get Out of It What You Put Into It

“The Electoral College seems useless today simply because no one has bothered to use it,” writes Las Vegas Review-Journal editor Vin...

UNLV’s Top Speech Cop

Christine Clark, UNLV’s Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, has been secretly working on a document titled, “Policy on Bias Incidents/Hate...

Rahm and Swine

Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief-of-stuff, says to never let a crisis go to waste. So it should scare us to death...

Yet Another Tax Hike Flim-Flam

“A bill (SB 201) Washoe County officials are depending on to fund critical road projects this summer is stuck in the...

Non-Existent Non-Partisan Races

Here’s the latest example of why I contend there is no such thing as a “non-partisan” race.

The Big Con

Democrats, aided and abetted by the GOP’s legislative leadership, are setting up Nevada’s citizens for yet another monster of a tax...

Listening to Mr. Ed

From a “Dear Colleague” letter by Assemblyman Ed Goedhart on February 8, 2009:

A Tale of Two GOP Governors

As Jon Ralston noted in the Las Vegas Sun on Friday, Hawaii and Nevada are primarily tourist-based economies. And both of...

Revenge of the Tea Partiers

In what can only be described as a major embarrassment for a sitting elected official, state Sen. Maurice Washington lost in...

Can You Do the Cha-Chas?

It was only days ago that GOP party leaders were touting and cheering the potential candidacy of an unknown Wall Street...