Allow us to provide an abbreviated history of recent efforts to diversify and expand Nevada’s economy beyond tourism, conventions and construction:
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National Employee Freedom Week wrapped up Saturday. What just a year ago was a modest local effort has extended nationwide, thanks to the Nevada Policy Research Institute.
The Great Recession provided many enduring lessons for local governments. Foremost among them: Long-term contracts that provide guaranteed annual pay raises to employees are a bad deal for taxpayers.
Newspaper journalists believe they’ve seen it all, so nothing really surprises them. But when NBA Commissioner David Stern stepped to the lectern Thursday night to unveil the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft — even pausing a couple of seconds to exacerbate the surprise — and announced the Cleveland Cavaliers had selected Anthony Bennett, jaws dropped around the entire Review-Journal newsroom (which is actually two rooms, for those keeping score).
No industry is immune from the ebb and flow of the economy, and as a result, no tax is, either.
You know it’s a slow day at City Hall when your elected officials spend time working up a healthy food policy. Dog-catching procedures, well within the council’s scope, apparently required no further attention. So it was that on June 19, as reported by the Review-Journal’s Benjamin Spillman, the council served up a resolution on what it wants you to eat.
If you get arrested, smile for your booking photo. In one of the latest marriages of technology and entrepreneurship, websites that peddle in mug shots and arrest records are popping up and prompting debate about public records.
Easily overlooked in the midst of all the government scandals of the past couple of months is this not-so-thrilling fact: ObamaCare takes full effect in just six months, whether we’re ready or not and whether we like it or not.
At a time when government overreach is all the rage, the Clark County Commission is taking a restrained approach to easing sidewalk congestion on the Las Vegas Strip. That’s a good thing.
In his State of the State speech five months ago, Gov. Brian Sandoval asked the Legislature to speed passage of legislation to make Nevada the first state with legalized, regulated online poker. Lawmakers complied with the governor’s request, and the reasons for the urgency become clearer with each passing week.