How the ‘public’ Las Vegas Monorail is taking taxpayers for a very expensive ride
Steve Sebelius
In politics, some decisions are difficult, even wrenching.
So far, the debate in the Nevada Legislature has been about whether to raise the hourly minimum wage and, if so, by how much, to $12 or $15.
Competing documents outlining Nevada legislative agendas show the two parties’ different approaches to the 2017 Legislature.
My God, it’s happened again!
Memory fades with age. We remember good times more than the bad.
To be sure, 2018 is a ways off.
If the first legislative skirmish over Education Savings Accounts is any indication, compromise on the controversial reform is a long way off.
Early in the 2015 session, a veteran Democratic lawmaker standing in line at the Caucus Deli in the legislative building confessed to me, “It sucks to be in the minority.”
It’s beyond ironic that clergymen are so terribly eager to erase a provision of the tax law that could end up hurting their churches.
Of all the phrases associated with modern politics, none may be as bitter as “elections have consequences.”
That didn’t take very long.
It might be hard to conceive of yet another debate over taxes in the Nevada Legislature.
After only 21 years, voter-approved term limits have finally succeeded in dislodging the maximum leader of the Hermit Kingdom of Henderson.
Of all the opportunities for President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats to work in cooperation, infrastructure is the most promising.