There’s good news out of California for people who like to trust, but verify, that their government is doing the right thing. And maybe someday, that good news will extend to Nevada.
Steve Sebelius
Steve Sebelius wrote about local, state and national politics, as well as the Nevada Legislature.
Nevada took the first step toward ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment on Wednesday.
State Treasurer Dan Schwartz once confessed to being a “bad boy” because he’d disobeyed legislative directives.
Don’t quit, Sen. Gansert! Your state needs you!
How the ‘public’ Las Vegas Monorail is taking taxpayers for a very expensive ride
In politics, some decisions are difficult, even wrenching.
So far, the debate in the Nevada Legislature has been about whether to raise the hourly minimum wage and, if so, by how much, to $12 or $15.
Competing documents outlining Nevada legislative agendas show the two parties’ different approaches to the 2017 Legislature.
Memory fades with age. We remember good times more than the bad.
To be sure, 2018 is a ways off.
If the first legislative skirmish over Education Savings Accounts is any indication, compromise on the controversial reform is a long way off.
Early in the 2015 session, a veteran Democratic lawmaker standing in line at the Caucus Deli in the legislative building confessed to me, “It sucks to be in the minority.”
It’s beyond ironic that clergymen are so terribly eager to erase a provision of the tax law that could end up hurting their churches.
Of all the phrases associated with modern politics, none may be as bitter as “elections have consequences.”