Something smells fishy in Carson City, and it’s not Kim Lee’s sushi bar.
I’m talking about the proposed $20 million Wal-Mart-sized SUPER recreation center that some folks want to build out on land adjacent to the Western Nevada Community College (WNCC) – which, by the way, is so proud of its community ties to the people […]
Posted on January 30th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed budget for the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services over the next two years calls for a hefty 20 percent increase in spending. And Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie (D-Reno), one to the most dependable barometers of all things liberal, is tickled pink. The Nevada Appeal reports that Leslie said […]
Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The following letter was sent to Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller today…
January 28, 2007
Ross Miller
Nevada Secretary of State
101 N. Carson Street
Carson City, NV. 89701
Dear Secretary Miller,
On April 4, 2006, the Associated Press reported the following, which, by the way, I found on your own campaign website:
“Secretary of State hopeful Ross Miller called for tougher […]
Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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This is Democrat State Chairman Tom Collins’ worst nightmare. The unions ain’t gonna be too happy about it either. But if all goes as planned, former state Sen. Sue Lowden, Las Vegas Republican, will be the next Chairman of the Nevada GOP. And since a lot of new Republicans have moved to […]
Posted on January 28th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Just a short update this morning, as I’m hopping on a plane for Las Vegas to attend tonight’s Inaugural Ball. I’ll be wearing a used tux purchased for $295 a couple years ago from the Tuxedo House in Towson, with matching socks my wife picked up for me on sale at Wal-Mart.
While in town […]
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Gov. Gibbons appears a bit miffed at fiscal budget hawks such as myself who have a problem with his proposed $7 billion budget that increases government spending by 18 percent, including a bunch of new programs and virtually no program cuts whatsoever.
“The number of students in schools is increasing daily,” the governor tells Reno Gazette-Journal […]
Posted on January 24th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Gov. Gibbons’ proposed empowerment program for education appears to have some merit, but to call this a “school choice” program is rather misleading. When asked by Reno Gazette-Journal reporter Anjeanette Damon if the “school choice” reference in his State of the State about the empowerment program was another way of saying “vouchers,” the governor […]
Posted on January 24th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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We can’t think of a better use of taxpayer money than to imprison those of our community who commit violent felonies and other serious crimes. But the state bureau of prisons is requesting almost $2 billion to build more prisons over the next eight years.
Two billion is a lot of dough, so even if you […]
Posted on January 24th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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I don’t know who’s whose idea it was, but yesterday’s press release breathlessly announcing that First Lady Dawn Gibbons “will be wearing a Bordeaux velvet gown, designed by Giorgio Armani to the Inaugural Balls in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada” has got to be one of the least helpful things I’ve seen for Republicans in […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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One speech and 22 days does not a governor make. And the political reality is that Democrats control one house of the Nevada Legislature.
That being said, and at the risk of once again being labeled a “bad Republican” (so what else is new?), while Gov. Jim Gibbons’ still may go down in history as […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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