There’s Work To Be Done To Continue Sandoval’s Budget, Bureaucracy Cuts
(Jim Clark) – Nevada Policy Research Institute is a Las Vegas-based think tank, not unlike the Heritage Foundation at the national level, which identifies the Silver State’s problems and researches for...
View ArticleNevada’s Rosy Jobless Numbers Courtesy of a Computer?
(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8) The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation came out this morning with the January unemployment numbers. The agency says Nevada’s seasonally adjusted...
View ArticleSandoval Appoints James Guthrie To Top Public School Position
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Brian Sandoval today named James Guthrie, currently the senior fellow and director of education policy studies at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas,...
View ArticleNevadans Back Yucca Mountain, Sandoval Wants It Gone
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Brian Sandoval sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today making it clear that he does not support any type of nuclear waste disposal...
View ArticleSandoval Back-pedals On Sunsetting Taxes
(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Taxpayers lose again with Governor Brian Sandoval’s decision to propose extending the so-called “sunset” taxes. This demonstrates, once again, the danger behind the concept...
View ArticleAD 39 Candidate Wheeler Opposes Sandoval’s Tax Increases
(Gardnerville, NV) – March 15, 2012 – Jim Wheeler, Republican candidate for State Assembly District 39, released the following statement regarding Governor Brian Sandoval’s announcement proposing yet...
View ArticleState Funding For Education Increased In Last Legislative Session, Remember?
(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – One of the many, many terrible things to come out of yesterday’s news that Gov. Brian Sandoval and presumed Republican legislative leaders, Sen. Michael Roberson and Assemblyman...
View ArticleState Funding ‘Cut’ Results In Increased Funding To CCSD
(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – I’m currently reading CCSD’s 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and came across this gem. In their transmittal letter, CCSD Superintendent Dwight Jones and CCSD School...
View ArticleSelection Process For New Agency Director Questioned By Board Member
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A member of the state Transportation Department Board of Directors questioned today the proposed selection process for a new agency director. Member Tom Fransway...
View ArticleGov. Sandoval, NV Congressmen, Candidates Weigh In On Affordable Care Ruling
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Brian Sandoval said today the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court decisionupholding much of the Affordable Care Act on the state’s Medicaid program remain unclear....
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