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Study: The high price Nevadans pay for 'free' money from the federal government
Lawmakers on the local, state and federal level almost always brag about the benefits of “free” money from the federal government, but it turns out that every dollar Nevada got from the federal government in 2012 resulted in more than a half dollar in new state and local tax increases.
Sandoval, Republican leaders earn low marks in NPRI's 2015 Legislative Report Card
For Immediate Release Contact Ashley Johnson, 702-222-0642 LAS VEGAS — Just 20 lawmakers achieved voting records generally favorable to taxpayers during the 2015 Legislative Session, a new report from…
Avid for Stimulus money, pols short-circuited oversight, got green-energy flops in return
When Sen. Harry Reid and President Barack Obama return to Las Vegas Monday for Reid’s 8th Annual National Clean Energy Summit, there’ll be a ghost with them on the dais. Call it the “Ghost of Stimulus-Act Past.” Or perhaps “The Spirit of Green-Energy Subsidy Failures Past.” No matter what it’s called, the thing is out of the grave and again stalking the land. It’s back because every million-dollar-plus renewable-energy loan that Nevada gave to green-energy companies, using its Stimulus Act dollars, subsequently failed and is now the target of “claw back” legal actions by the state.
Week in review: tunnel
“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” — John Quinton_x000D_