The fear of being fired is a powerful motivator in the private sector. Inadequate performance puts your job in jeopardy. But if you screw up badly — and especially if you treat customers terribly — you’ll be canned in no time.
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Governments have all kinds of permits — for construction, business occupancy, special events, parking and other activities. They are issued with a clear dictate: If you don’t get the permit, you can’t lawfully engage in the activity. Period.
RJ
Pointing to polling that shows Nevadans now support ending the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage, Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, has started the cumbersome process of repealing Nevada’s so-called “Protection of Marriage” amendment.
RJ
Nevada’s housing market has been mangled by multiple government interventions. Politicians simply refuse to leave the resulting distortions in prices and inventory alone to correct themselves, leading to another round of interventions, and on and on.
RJ
Envisioning cars that can go “coast to coast without using a drop of oil,” President Barack Obama last week urged Congress to authorize an additional $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into weaning automobiles off gasoline. “The only way to break this cycle of spiking gas prices — the only way to break that cycle for good — is to shift our cars entirely, our cars and trucks, off oil,” the president said.
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Nevada is almost 150 years old, and parts of its government structure are antiquated and in need of reform. The Legislature’s 120-day biennial sessions are not among them.
RJ
The taxpaying public needs more notice of its government business, not less. That’s the main reason lawmakers should reject Assembly Bill 267 as written.
RJ
Officials in Elko County have approved a pilot project designed to keep sage grouse off the endangered species list by killing ravens with poisoned eggs and reducing wildfire fuel through livestock grazing.
RJ
The taxpaying public deserves a lot more answers than it is getting from the city of Las Vegas about a cheating scandal that wiped out a class of firefighter recruits.
RJ
What’s slowing down job creation in Nevada, where the real unemployment rate — counting part-timers who would prefer full-time work, and those who’ve given up looking — averaged 20.3 percent in 2012?
RJ
The tourism authority won’t say it, so we’ll say it for them: The madness begins here.
RJ
The economic and strategic importance of Nellis Air Force Base was on full display Tuesday, when the U.S. Air Force held an official arrival ceremony for the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter. The Pentagon plans to buy more than 2,400 of the aircraft for the country and its allies, and by 2020, 36 of them are expected to be based at Nellis.
RJ
Bonanza High School teacher John Mannion has the right to be presumed innocent of the current criminal charges against him.
RJ
Secretary of State Ross Miller was smart to unveil his voter photo identification legislation last fall, well ahead of the start of the 2013 Legislature. It gave him months to address the concerns of his fellow Democrats, who traditionally loathe voter ID laws.
RJ
Even as the current elected leadership of the city of Henderson wait for a $4 million payout from a fantasy stadium deal they’ve called corrupt — and members of Congress begin to sniff around, asking if former federal officials acted appropriately — one of the defendants in the city’s January lawsuit is refusing to sign a settlement deal because of a gag order.
