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As long as they’re trying to figure out ways to trim government costs by hundreds of millions of dollars to balance the recession-stung state budget, the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor listened to testimony Wednesday on a bill that would require the cutting down of more trees and the use of more energy to manufacture and transport more paper bags, while — as bonuses, mind you — imposing a new tax on Nevada shoppers and requiring us to foot the bill for more health inspectors to make sure grocery stores and other merchants stop using the “wrong kind” of plastic bag.

Poor Harry Reid catches it from every side.

It’s always tempting to report that minimum-wage hikes, such as that scheduled to take effect in Nevada July 1, will “give the state’s lowest-paid workers a 12 percent” (or whatever) “raise.”

Which way should the scales of blind justice tip?

I’m very lucky. Despite what our energetic young bankers-turned-derivative-peddlers have done — are still doing, that’s the amazing part — to our economy, I still have a job, which means that every month I still sit down and pay my bills.

If the whispers are right and Nevada is, indeed, in a $3 billion hole, then all hands on deck — this is a crisis.

To the editor:

Democrats and Republicans infected with tax-hike fever in Carson City should take a look at the election results which came out of Illinois last week.

Who says there’s no plan in Carson City?