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Archive for May, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007 Close, and we feel like having a cigar! By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — Then again, readers, we pretty much always feel like having a cigar.
Lawmakers and Gov. Jim Gibbons dashed back and forth between each other's offices this afternoon as a deal on the state's $7 billion budget came tantalizingly close.
Early in the day, the Associated Press reported a tentative deal had been [...]
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Monday, May 28, 2007 It's the last week! By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — Well, dear readers, it’s the final full week of the session. Just one week from tomorrow, the 2007 legislative session is supposed to come to its constitutionally mandated end. But as conservative columnist Joe Sobran once famously said, “the Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.”
If you’ve been [...]
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Friday, May 25, 2007 More legislative antics By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — You know what goes well with schools? Guns! At least that's what nine members of the Assembly who voted against banning paintball guns from school campuses apparently think.
No seriously, nine people we elected to the state Assembly voted to say it's OK to tote paintball guns on campus. And why not? [...]
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Friday, May 25, 2007 An interesting mixed vote By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — The life, death, and resurrection of Senate Joint Resolution 2 is an interesting story in and of itself. But the vote in the Assembly on this resolution by Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio — which would allow for the appointment of judges and retention elections without an opponent — is interesting indeed. [...]
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Friday, May 25, 2007 Who's cool with price gouging? By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — Republicans are, that's who! On a party-line vote on the Assembly floor this evening, 13 members of the GOP cast their votes AGAINST Senate Bill 18, which was aimed at profiteers who raise prices on basic necessities during emergencies.
As a public service, let us list for you the names of lawmakers [...]
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Friday, May 25, 2007 Jim Gibbons is Reagan, without the charm, skill or jelly beans By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — As if threatening to veto a budget that contains tax increases — twice — wasn’t enough, Gov. Jim Gibbons sent an e-mail message out today that reiterated for a third time that he’ll fight the scheduled expiration of the modified business tax.
At a news conference Wednesday, Gibbons expressed frustration that the [...]
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Friday, May 25, 2007 Mid-Friday update By Steve Sebelius Editor's note: Apologies for the error message that subscribers received earlier. A post titled "This Just In!" was written, but due to technical difficulties, was not actually posted.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly voted unanimously this morning to apply political fundraising rules to legal defense funds, including the rule that says you can’t raise money [...]
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Friday, May 25, 2007 Some down-home Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius You know, we just realized that we’ve been neglecting our dedicated readers who don’t care about the happenings up in Carson City, where we happen to be on assignment until the Legislature winds down to its bitter end. (As amazing as it may seem, fully four of our 12 readers don't care, polls show.) But [...]
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Friday, May 25, 2007 "Special" session, by which we mean "retarded" By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — From the looks of things, work is getting done here in the capital. The Assembly and Senate are meeting in floor sessions. They’re considering bills, passing amendments, engrossing stuff into the general file. It looks like things are winding down.
No way. Word among all parties now is that we’re leaping into [...]
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Friday, May 25, 2007 The news isn't good for homebuilders By Ian Mylchreest The headline of a 16.2 percent jump in new home sales sounds exciting until you realize that most of that was "profit-taking." The government reported a big jump in sales Thursday because, reports the Los Angeles Times, of deep discounting by builders.
We're seeing some of that discounting with either "buyer incentives" advertised on billboards around [...]
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