LETTER: All hail the Nevada Office of Mask Enforcement
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Updated July 3, 2020 - 10:01 pm
Despite the dire projections involving the state budget, with some predicting a $1.3 billion shortfall for the coming fiscal year, how long will it be before Gov. Steve Sisolak establishes a new agency called the Nevada Office of Mask Enforcement? After all, never let a crisis, real or exaggerated, go to waste. Then the governor can send his army of bureaucrats out in the public to threaten and fine ordinary citizens for not wearing a mask. Well, I guess that is one way of shoring up a budget shortfall.
