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Legislature’s dirty little secret revealed
For decades here in Nevada, the caterwauling from tax-consumers and their political allies has been loud and constant: Silver State budgets, they wail, are much too tightfisted, "selfish" and "unprogressive." What they haven't been telling you, however, is about all of the spending state lawmakers have been perpetrating through the back door – after the biennial budgets are approved – in a practice that's been going on for at least 30 years.
NPRI's Transparency Project on the LVCVA: Apr. 20, 2009 update
Millions of dollars in advance payments from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to a company owned by R&R Partners CEO William Vassiliadis would not be allowed under state procurement regulations, a state purchasing official said Wednesday.
Impact of LVCVA advertising efforts unclear
NPRI's Transparency Project on the LVCVA: Apr. 9, 2009 update
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will gather Tuesday to hear the marketing and lobbying firm R&R Partners explain why it believes its expiring $92 million-a-year advertising contract should be extended.