Nevada News and Views

Caucus Chaos: My After-Action Report

Chuck Muth — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:14:07 +0000

(Chuck Muth) – * After initially predicting over 100,000 Republicans would participate in the Nevada GOP presidential caucus, the party began ratcheting that figure down. First to 70,000; then to 55,000. I predicted 40,000. In the end, total participation in the Chaos Caucus: 32,894. Lame. * Considering how fouled up the caucus was, as is, can you just imagine the nightmare same-day registration would have caused? * The only thing worse than “spin” is bad [...]

Number of Those Who Have Left Labor Force Equal to Population of Nevada

Thomas Mitchell — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:24:33 +0000

(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8) – You can’t tell the players without a program, and you can’t interpret statistics without the raw numbers. As Joseph Curl of the Washington Times so aptly pointed out Sunday the latest unemployment rate decline — down to 8.3 percent in January from 8.5 percent in December — reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is accomplished with a bit of sleight-of-hand known as seasonal adjustment. At the rate of unemployment decline being [...]

Nevada Caucuses: North Went Smoother Than South

Jim Clark — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:59:59 +0000

The 2012 Nevada Republican presidential preference caucus has come and gone but the reverberations can still be heard as of the deadline for this column. First of all, the good news: Incline’s caucus went very well; 384 stalwart Republicans showed up at Incline High School to elect their neighbors as delegates to the Washoe County GOP Convention, as members of the County Central Committee and finally to vote for their presidential candidates. That number represents [...]

Sandoval Encourages Business Growth By Freezing Regulations

NN&V Staff — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:29:01 +0000

(Carson City, NV) – Speaking at the Chamber’s Directions 2012 event in Reno this morning, Governor Sandoval announced the results of his administration’s regulatory review. In his first executive order as Governor, Sandoval imposed a one-year freeze on all regulations and required the Cabinet to thoroughly review the entire regulatory framework of the state. During the freeze, all regulations were reviewed to determine if they were still necessary, to identify any adverse impact on business, [...]

GOP Central Committee Member Jim Wheeler Offers Caucus Commentary

NN&V Staff — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:26:22 +0000

(Gardnerville, NV) – February 3, 2012 – Jim Wheeler, a member of the Nevada Republican Central Committee, unpaid citizen lobbyist, and candidate for the Nevada Assembly’s 39th District, has made himself available to offer insight and commentary on the Nevada GOP Caucus taking place Saturday February 4th. At the October 2011 meeting of the Nevada Republican Central Committee, Jim took decisive action to plan, coordinate and ensure overwhelming passage of a resolution preventing same-day registration. [...]

Businesses Beware: Unionism Is On The Rise

NN&V Staff — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:33:14 +0000

NN&V Exclusive (Rebecca Smith) – I had already written another article for this week, but then some news broke over the weekend that every employer should be aware of: Unionism is on the rise. This rise, according to the statistics released by the Department of Labor in 2011, occurred after a drastic downward trend in union membership that started in 2008. I caught a blurb of this on Fox News on Friday, January 27. After [...]

Wimping Out With Egyptian Junta Not An Option

Fred Weinberg — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:18:55 +0000

(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – While the Republican candidates for President were slapping the snot out of each other down in Florida, a much bigger story began playing out in Egypt which, amazingly has not been addressed by any of those candidates. And we’d certainly like to hear where they stand on the issue before Saturday’s Nevada Caucuses. A young man named Sam LaHood—whose father happens to be Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood—has been, essentially, [...]

NPRI Offers $2,000 College-Scholarship To Clark County Seniors

NN&V Staff — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:58:08 +0000

(Las Vegas, NV) – Graduating Clark County high school students who show the potential to make a significant contribution to the cause of economic liberty should seek a $2,000 college scholarship being awarded by the Nevada Policy Research Institute. This is the second year that the Professor R.S. Nigam & NPRI Freedom Scholarship is being offered. It is open to all Clark County high school students — whether they attend a public, private, online or [...]

Army of Corrupt Obama Backers Simply Marching Under a New Flag

Thomas Mitchell — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:36:28 +0000

(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8 Mitt Romney apparently is making hay in a TV ad over the single ethics violation the Democrats could nail on Newt Gingrich — whether a college course he was teaching was advancing his partisan goals. It’s sort of like concentrating on the mote in one eye and ignoring the beam in another. There’s more than one way to advance one’s political goals. Newt’s penny-ante course is one. Obama’s million-dollar extortion to fund his [...]

Consumer Confidence Rises, Taxable Sales Increase

Sean Whaley — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:43:25 +0000

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Nevada’s taxable sales rose 9.6 percent in November over the same month a year ago, driven in large part by car sales and improved business at bars and restaurants, the state Department of Taxationreported today. Taxable sales totaled nearly $3.4 billion for the month. For the fiscal year that began July 1, 2011, taxable sales are up 8.5 percent through November. Clark County sales were up 8.6 percent. Washoe County [...]