State lawmakers are rightly worried about the effect of tax increases on a fragile economy. Families and businesses are still hurting, more than four years after the hardest blows of the Great Recession. Every dollar matters.
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Legislation to enhance prison sentences for people who commit crimes against transgender people sure was popular. It passed the state Senate with only a single dissenting vote, and just 11 of 42 Assembly members voted against it. Gov. Brian Sandoval quickly signed the bill into law.
Local governments are passing budgets for the fiscal year that starts July 1. In Southern Nevada, spending plans reflect how far governments are from sustainable operations.
The national foreclosure settlement has been a bonanza for nearly 20,000 Nevada homeowners. Between March 1, 2012, and March 31 of this year, housing relief from big banks had an average value of $97,000, either through mortgage refinancing, principal reductions or short sales, the state reported this week. No doubt, that $1.9 billion in assistance helped a lot of families hold onto their homes or escape crushing negative equity altogether.
The selection of the Clark County School District’s next superintendent should have been a slow, deliberate, open process. Instead, the School Board slammed the door and rushed to judgment without any study at all.
Nevada governments don’t have a revenue problem. They have a payroll problem.
A little more than a year ago, Nevada public school officials were working to halt competition in interscholastic sports between their teams and private Bishop Gorman High School of Las Vegas.
Friday was the Legislature’s deadline to pass bills out of opposite house committees. As a result, a lot of legislation was effectively laid to rest this weekend. However, many bills of great importance to the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as individual lawmakers, have been exempted from the deadline calendar by leadership.
The Clark County School Board has scheduled a special meeting for Monday night to again consider a national search for the district’s next superintendent. Provided a majority of the trustees vote to launch the search and contract with a search firm, they’ll have done the right thing.
A little more than two weeks remain in the 2013 Legislature, and as usual, the sprint to adjournment will settle the fate of stacks of bills, some of them good, some of them awful.
The 2010 opening of the USO center at McCarran International Airport was the culmination of a decade of dreaming and planning, a partnership between businesses and veterans to make the travels of our military personnel easier and more enjoyable.
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