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Numbers? We’ll get around to it

Whether you accepted a target date of April 1 or April 2, majority Democrats in Carson City vowed that by the end of last week we’d have some firm numbers, telling us how much they plan to spend in their 2009-2010 Nevada state budget, and by how much they propose to jack up taxes to raise all the added loot they seek.

Benchmarks for bonuses, salaries

I suspect you are well aware of the big brouhaha concerning the bonuses AIG paid to company executives.

An American in London

Some on the right can be counted on to rush to superficial and overheated labeling. That often works for the right.

A diminishing supply of grains of salt

Don’t count Max Chipman among the masses who believe the state is broke and on the verge of becoming an unregulated wasteland.

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Removing barriers

Tennis champion Andre Agassi founded and helped finance the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a public charter school that has served “at-risk” students since 2001, and is set to graduate its first senior class in June.

Silver linings amid the gloom

May “you live in interesting times.” Many assume this saying is an ancient Chinese curse, or blessing, depending on how you look at it.

Something fishy

The environmental movement thrives in a fantasy world where economic realities don’t apply. The concept of weighing costs against benefits is anathema to their doctrines — the greens won’t move from the position that no cost is too great to impose on American taxpayers and consumers to realize the smallest perceived benefit.

Just remember: It’s not a tax cut

Effective April 1 — we didn’t pick the date — employers have been instructed by the IRS to deduct a little less out of the coming year’s paychecks. For everybody. The average American worker will probably notice an extra $11 to $13 per week.

No new taxes?

More than once during last year’s campaign, Barack Obama got his dander up over the notion that he was a typical big-spending Democrat who would jack up taxes.

Pay concessions — but just barely

Clark County workers represented by the Service Employees International Union — pretty much the entire non-management payroll outside of public safety — are the most recent bargaining group to make contract “concessions” in the midst of the struggling economy.

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