In a battle over big bucks and a bus contract, Veolia Transportation recently hired Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins to consult and lobby on its behalf.
Jane Ann Morrison
Putting tax policy in the Nevada Constitution is a terrible idea because it’s inflexible and doesn’t belong there. Yet Danny Thompson, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, believes that’s the only way Nevada will see increased revenues, so he’s pushing hard to gain support for the idea.
Anti-abortion advocate Chet Gallagher filed an initiative to take away Nevada women’s right to abortion, raising concern among women’s rights groups fearful that the issue put to rest 21 years ago could be resurrected.
A savvy political consultant once deflated me, saying it didn’t matter if I wrote a negative story about his candidate. The only thing that really mattered was the headline.
Surprise, surprise, Dotty’s has sued the Nevada Gaming Commission and the state of Nevada over the very issue I predicted the retroactive aspect of new regulations.
Don’t ask for too much, and maybe you’ll get it.
Like many good ideas, this one began in a hot springs with a handful of women who were curious how women who work in casinos view what they do. They wondered about the dealers and cocktail waitresses, the housekeepers, even the women in middle management jobs.
“Sometimes, no sex sells,” Patty Becker informed the all-male Nevada Gaming Commission during a feisty but failed attempt to block a regulation change that slams Dotty’s taverns where it hurts — in the pocketbook.
The inability of the Regional Transportation Commission’s eight-member board to break a deadlock and make a decision on a bus contract is costing you even more money, as once again a government board has been sued in state court.