Doug French
Eating the 'rich'
The 2007 Legislature is over and Nevada taxpayers escaped without further bludgeoning. But we can’t rest easy.
No room to complain
The same folks who have been pounding the table demanding Gov. Jim Gibbons fix the highway funding problem in (especially southern) Nevada are now calling his funding plan “dead on arrival,” “not based upon sound policy” and “phony.”
More debauchery of your money on its way
"Inflation Puts Up a Goose Egg” was the recent headline, middling page one, of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s business section."
Wishing Upon a Superstar
University Chancellor and TV station mogul Jim Rogers believes the way to fix the Clark County School District is to hire a “superstar” as superintendent to turn the dysfunctional district around.
The AMT: Not Just for Rich People Any More
Members of President Bush’s advisory panel on tax reform agree that the individual Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) should be repealed. The panel’s chairman, former senator Connie Mack of Florida, cited the AMT’s “extremely negative effect” on middle-income taxpayers as the nine-member panel reached its first conclusion.
Why The Sun, but not the Studebaker?
Since the announcement that the Las Vegas Sun newspaper will be delivered as an eight-page insert within the Las Vegas Review-Journal each morning, the broadsides between rival columnists have been fast and furious.
Growth task force agenda a loser
The Clark County Community Growth Task Force made expansion of the county mass transit plan a priority recommendation for “furthering the Urban Design goal” in its recent report.
Smearing TABOR
Democrats and Republicans alike this year have ridiculed Bob Beers’ legislation for a Colorado-style Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR). Many have said the measure is failing in Colorado, and that the state’s governor and legislators need to overturn the measure to avert disaster in that state.
A swing… and a miss
One of Mayor Oscar Goodman’s pet projects is to bring a major league baseball team to Las Vegas. At a recent breakfast presentation, the mayor promised that he would be throwing out the first pitch by the 2008 season.