There was a minor error in the Nevada Appeal story on the free and reduced lunch recipients in the paper on Monday. Only at one elementary school do 85 percent of students qualify as poor…er, “low income.” Citywide the figure is “only” around 45 percent.
And as I suspected, the free lunch program does, […]
Posted on August 9th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Stuffed into the Senate Transportation/HUD appropriations bill are pork projects which include $1 million for a pedestrian and bike path in Louisiana (Landrieu), $3 million for hiking and bike trails in Illinois (Durbin and Obama), $200,000 for a parking garage in Provo, Utah (Hatch), $200,000 to convert an old post office into a museum in […]
Posted on August 8th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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According to government figures cited in a recent Nevada Appeal story, the next time you go to the playground in Carson City and watch a Little League baseball game, know that the families of eight of the nine kids on the field are “poor.” As such, every one of those kids except, say, the […]
Posted on August 7th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, wants to buy up Sierra Health Services in Nevada. The merger would give the new company a virtual monopoly over health insurance in the Silver State, reducing competition, which usually means increasing costs. Supporters, however, say the merger will actually reduce costs and improve service due […]
Posted on August 5th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The Las Vegas Sun published an editorial today slamming Nevada’s Republican congressional delegation for opposing a reauthorization of a health insurance program for poor children. In a letter-to-the-editor submitted this afternoon, I set the record straight on this terrible piece of legislation…
Dear Editor,
I’m writing to take issue with your editorial on August 3, 2007, […]
Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada | 3 Comments »
The Farm Bill passed the House of Representatives last week by a vote of 231-191. Contained in the bill, writes National Review Online’s David Freddoso, was “a tax increase of somewhere between $6 billion and $7.8 billion on the U.S. subsidiaries of foreign corporations.
“This could possibly threaten the jobs of tens of thousands of Americans […]
Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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One of the biggest challenges facing political campaigns is playing the Expectations Game with the public and the media. Boiled down to pure simplicity it goes something like this…
Your campaign sends out a press release saying that Joe Candidate will be holding a rally in a local park. How many people do you […]
Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National | 7 Comments »
