Back in 2004, just as voters narrowly approved an advisory question to raise the sales tax by one-half a cent to hire more cops, a disturbing idea emerged: What if the city of Las Vegas and Clark County – the local governments that fund the Metropolitan Police Department – decided to short the department’s budget by an equal amount and spend the money elsewhere?
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And you thought Nevada was a pioneer state.
Give Secretary of State Ross Miller credit for moving the dialogue forward, at least.
I’ve “obtained” this piece of correspondence from “a senior Democratic strategist” posing as a friend to a young Republican consultant in order to proffer some rather diabolical advice. Apologies to the great C.S. Lewis, from whom this literary device is liberally borrowed and poorly imitated.
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In politics, it’s not the shellackings that you most regret. It’s the heartbreakers.
On Monday, President Barack Obama faced a House of Representatives controlled by hostile Republicans, a Democratically controlled Senate without enough members to break a filibuster threat and a looming crisis over tax cuts, deficit spending and debt.
Recently, the Rev. Billy Graham’s organization bought full-page ads in major newspapers – including the Review-Journal – encouraging people to vote for “biblical principles.”
There’s always plenty of reasons to say no to a tax increase.
Guess which popular Nevada political figure supports Mitt Romney for president? Gov. Brian Sandoval, that’s who!
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