Every Republican wants the Sheldon Seal of Approval. And they’re more than happy to come to Las Vegas to get it.
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This Obamacare mandate couldn’t change. On March 11, a mere 20 days ago, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokeswoman Julie Bataille said of the March 31 Affordable Care Act enrollment deadline: “We have no plans to extend the open enrollment period. In fact, we don’t actually have the statutory authority to extend the open enrollment period in 2014.” On March 12, Rep. Kevin Brady of the House Ways and Means Committee asked Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, “Are you going to delay the open enrollment period beyond March 31?” Ms. Sebelius replied, “No, sir.”
Nevada is poised to join the country’s energy revolution. The one that has nothing to do with solar panels and wind turbines. The one that actually makes money and creates high-paying jobs.
Plenty of government bodies can be criticized, justifiably, as unresponsive. The Behavioral Health and Wellness Council isn’t one of them.
Even the most uninformed taxpayer could see this coming from 10 miles away. North Las Vegas doesn’t have enough money to pay its public safety unions contracted pay raises. If the unions insist on keeping the raises, there will be layoffs.
Rarely does a new college minor have such potential for a major economic impact. But UNLV’s decision to introduce an undergraduate engineering minor in unmanned autonomous systems — drones to layfolk — already has helped attract the booming industry to Nevada. And in the near future, the payoffs could include business startups, thousands of high-paying jobs, and the research and private-sector support necessary to help lift the university to Tier 1 status.
A rancher needs big brass ones to stand up to Washington. Not only is the federal government the country’s largest and least competent landowner, it’s also the country’s largest police force and largest law firm, wrapped with red tape into one unflinching leviathan.
Back in November, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval was confident the state had made the right decision in creating its own health insurance exchange, giving it more control over implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Given the well-documented nightmare that is the federal exchange at healthcare.gov, Gov. Sandoval indeed may have been right, regardless of Obamacare’s larger failures and how much worse the law’s implementation is going to get.
Medical marijuana still makes most local elected officials nervous, despite ample political cover from voters and lawmakers alike.
Clark County School District officials and a wide range of elected officials want more tax money put into public education. They want fully subsidized full-day kindergarten for every child in Southern Nevada and expanded pre-K and early education programs. They want to hire more teachers and specialists. They want pay raises. They want to restore the system’s building maintenance budget. And, eventually, they want new capital revenue to build and renovate schools.