It’s a lot easier to waste someone else’s money.
Opinion
To the editor:
In his part-time spot as chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, local television station owner Jim Rogers sees it as his job to lobby the Legislature — and taxpayers, indirectly — to get as much “other people’s money” for Nevada’s tax-subsidized colleges and universities as possible.
If Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie followed the lead of university Chancellor Jim Rogers (see above), the longtime lawman would demand fiscal immunity from the recession and declare that if the Las Vegas police budget were not allowed to expand, the valley would resemble the set of “Escape from New York” by summer.
With the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been confidently stating that the Yucca Mountain Project is essentially dead. Is it?
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Preening that Nevada could lead the nation in linking job creation to energy efficiency, state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford detailed his “green jobs” initiative to a legislative panel in Carson City last Friday.
The siren song of the tax-consuming class is unmistakably clear: Capitalism has failed.
Nevada’s state Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will begin broadcasting all oral appeals arguments over the Internet.
Unless you’ve been vacationing on Mars the past couple of weeks, there is no way you could have missed the latest in baseball’s adventures in steroids. It seems now the perceived last bastion of athletic purity — one Alex Rodriguez — has been outed as a steroid injector in the early part of this decade.
The abomination that is President Obama’s so-called economic “stimulus” giveaway contains untold billions of dollars worth of spending that has nothing to do with preserving jobs and everything to do with growing bureaucracies.
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