Yes, Monday's annual update from the Environmental Protection Agency does report the Silver State has "improved" over the past four years. The amount of toxic materials "released into the environment" by Nevada industries in 2002 dropped more than 30 percent over that time, to a mere 783.5 million pounds of heavy metals and chemicals.
EDITORIAL: Time to pay up
At the end of this year's legislative session, Assembly Majority Leader Barbara Buckley defended her colleagues' $836 million heist by saying: "The tax package won't be passed on to the individual."
Well, on Wednesday, three new levies passed this session kicked in: a new real estate tax of $2.60 for every $1,000 of property transfers; a 2 percent gross payroll tax on banks; and a 0.7 percent payroll tax on businesses, replacing the former $25 per employee quarterly "head tax." Each will pack a punch that shifts more money from Nevadans' pockets into the coffers of the bureaucracy.
EDITORIAL: Rocks as 'toxic pollutants'
Since 1998, the federal government has listed the state of Nevada as the nation's top polluter. Yes, Monday's annual update from the Environmental Protection Agency does report the Silver State has "improved" over the past four years.
EDITORIAL: Time to pay up
At the end of this year's legislative session, Assembly Majority Leader Barbara Buckley defended her colleagues' $836 million heist by saying: "The tax package won't be passed on to the individual.
STEVE SEBELIUS: The white media?
Louis Overstreet thinks the "white media" are treating Wendell Williams unfairly. Overstreet, executive director of the Urban Chamber of Commerce, says its not the content of the stories written about the wayward assemblyman that are wrong; it's the fact that so many stories have been written, and the fact that they've been played high up on the Review-Journal's front page.
