The Economic Forum will meet tomorrow and tell legislators how much money they’ll have to work with in passing a budget for the next two years. It’s expected that projected revenue will be lower, meaning the government will need to do a little more tightening of the belt. Unless, of course, they insanely [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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After famously breaking his Taxpayer Protection Pledge by including a $292 million room tax hike in his budget last January – and then failing to veto it after it was passed by the Legislature – Gov. Jim Gibbons is showing signs that he’s rediscovered his “inner conservative.”
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Back in January, Gov. Jim Gibbons introduced a balanced budget of around $6.2 billion, with a $292 million room tax hike included. And Democrats, not to mention several “Specter” Republicans, have been squealing like stuck pigs (with and without the flu) ever since.
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Assembly Bill 229 would require cigarette manufacturers to sell only “fire-safe” cigarettes – an oxymoron if there ever was one – in Nevada beginning next year.
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Make no mistake, state Sen. Bill Raggio (R-Reno) is still the Senate Majority Leader – it’s just a bi-partisan majority that he’s leading in this final month of this legislative session. Let me explain.
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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A compendium of responses to Sen. Arlen Specter switching parties…
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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“Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right,” declared U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (RINO-PA) today. “I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.” As such, Specter announced that he was switching parties and will run [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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“The Electoral College seems useless today simply because no one has bothered to use it,” writes Las Vegas Review-Journal editor Vin Suprynowicz in opposition to AB 413 which would require that Nevada’s five electoral votes go to whomever wins the popular vote in future presidential elections.
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Christine Clark, UNLV’s Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, has been secretly working on a document titled, “Policy on Bias Incidents/Hate Crimes” deep in the bowels of the Maryland Parkway campus, mad-scientist-like, and students and faculty of the taxpayer-funded school of “higher” education have been scared sh…um, witless over what might be in the document.
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief-of-stuff, says to never let a crisis go to waste. So it should scare us to death that the Obama administration today declared a “public health emergency” over the outbreak of swine flu.
Five’ll get you ten the administration will now use this “crisis” to promote some new socialist [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by chuckmuth
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