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Steve Sebelius

Steve Sebelius

Steve Sebelius wrote about local, state and national politics, as well as the Nevada Legislature.

A year in quotes

In the political year about to pass into history, there were literally hundreds of memorable things said. Today, I take a look back at the year that was through the prism of a select few of those remarks.

Sandoval does right thing in expanding Medicaid

There came a moment at the end of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s meeting with the Review-Journal editorial board Wednesday when he said something very illuminating.

A modest proposal

An open letter to Harry Reid:

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So, we’re doing secret budgets now?

Say what you will about Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, he doesn’t make many mistakes. That may account, at least in part, for his overwhelming popularity.

More taxes for cops

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?

A bit of friendly political ‘advice’ from the other side

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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