Commentary
The magnificent cowardice of Nevada elected officials
There is no reason to rehash reasons Nevada should do what nearly 20 states have done: cap interest rates payday lenders can charge so as to run the bad actors out of the state. Your Nevada Legislature certainly didn’t think there was any need to rehash the issue. On the contrary, Assembly Commerce and Labor […]
Photo reveals Carson City spot where good bills go
The state Assembly’s death penalty abolition bill has already been sucked in. As of late Wednesday afternoon, legislation to cap rates on payday lenders has still not been scheduled for a committee hearing. The same goes for the modest bill to mandate sick pay for private sector workers. Friday is the deadline for legislation to […]
Will Democrats, too, crush payday lending, sick pay bills?
Friday is a deadline for your Nevada Legislature; bills must get passed out of committee or die. That doesn’t mean bills can’t be resuscitated. Like comic book creators bringing superheroes back from the dead in the next issue, legislative leaders can massage the process to breath new life into seemingly shelved legislation, even after deadlines. […]
Prezzy wannabes, Gramsci, and you
As everyone knows, the Mueller report, as hastily skimmed by Attorney General William Barr, proves conclusively that Donald Trump is the finest human being ever to walk the earth, greater than Jesus, greater than Lincoln, greater, even, than Fred Rogers. And yet simply oodles of Democrats seem to think that they, not the Great Trump, […]
‘Uncle Joe’ should call it a day
Joe Biden’s prospective presidential campaign was already making eyes roll before former Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores took to the internet Friday and described how Biden planted “a big slow kiss on the back of my head” at a 2014 campaign event. Over the years, video of Biden nuzzling, pawing and kissing women have arguably sparked […]
Kihuen victim blasts despicable pro-Kihuen website
Remember that website somebody put up that attempts to defend disgraced former congressman, Las Vegas City Council candidate, and most obtuse man in Nevada Ruben Kihuen by attacking the very women Congress sanctioned him for harassing? Well… A) As of Wednesday afternoon, it’s still up (no, mustn’t link because it is vile), and B) One […]
Minimum wage bill: Lawmakers’ emphasis is on the “minimum”
After reading the minimum wage legislation posted on the Legislature’s NELIS website Monday night, my first thought was, eh, could be worse. Turns out it was. A bill that simply called for raising Nevada’s minimum wage to $12, effective Jan. 1 2020, was posted mistakenly, a “technical error,” according to the Legislative Counsel Bureau, a […]
Nevada’s blue wave has a green glow
In 2012, several Nevada legislators were fined because they failed to report using campaign contributions to pay for rent and food and other expenses that everyone else pays for with their own money. And that’s OK! Well, legal anyway. Legislators can spend campaign contributions on that stuff while they’re in Carson City, legislating. So long […]
Las Vegas voters really ought to show up for a change
Disgraced former Congressman and Las Vegas City Council candidate Ruben Kihuen is having a big week. Tuesday, Buzzfeed, which originally broke the story about the allegations of Kihuen’s sexual harassment of staffers, published a lengthy look at his bid to return to public office in the Las Vegas Ward 3 race. Kihuen resisted calls to […]
A “mere condition” of sale. Or as the Nye County sheriff puts it, “Hitler!!!!”
Even Adam Laxalt didn’t argue Nevada’s background check law was unconstitutional. “According to its plain text, the Act preserves a preexisting right in Nevada to sell or transfer firearms between private parties. The Act’s background check requirement was intended to be a mere condition precedent to the sale or transfer of a firearm…” Laxalt wrote […]
Pssst… exits from NV Energy are way out of control
Wednesday, the Las Vegas City Council discussed leaving NV Energy to shop around for cheaper power. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has the same idea. As does the Raiders stadium. Those public and quasi-public (and publicly subsidized) operations follow on the heels of the local giant data warehouse, Switch, and of course resort […]
Assembly Republicans document their existence
“Under Republican leadership, Nevada’s rate of insured citizens has dramatically increased,” boast Nevada Assembly Republicans in a document released Thursday outlining their 2019 priorities. Well, yeah. Because Brian Sandoval was the first Republican governor in the nation to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act that Republicans are always insisting must be repealed. The statement […]