Convention authorities
Governments lobbying governments
Millions of taxpayer dollars go undocumented.
State and local governments in Nevada spend millions each year lobbying other levels of the government, and taxpayers get little if anything in return.
The confused gaming-tax debate
We can find new revenues without creating any new taxes.
Just four short years ago, the Guinn Administration proposed and implemented the “mother of all tax increases” in Nevada. At that time, Gov. Guinn said, in reference to his $1 billion-plus plan to increase taxes, “This will not just be a plan for the next two years. This is a plan for the future.”
The great public authority swindle: Part II
Why governance in Southern Nevada is so oddly opaque.
This is the second of a two-part series examining the undemocratic, corruptive and profligate nature of public authorities, in Nevada and around the nation.
It was set up in the 1950s, when the Mob controlled Vegas
The great public authority swindle: Part I
Politicians learned early on how to bypass the voters.
This is the first of a two-part series examining the undemocratic, corruptive and profligate nature of public authorities, in Nevada and around the nation.
A mid all the allegations that surround the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority year in and year out, the issue of the LVCVA’s unique legal structure always seems to escape attention.
No room to complain
Opponents of Gibbons' highway funding plan overstate the LVCVA's worth.
The same folks who have been pounding the table demanding Gov. Jim Gibbons fix the highway funding problem in (especially southern) Nevada are now calling his funding plan “dead on arrival,” “not based upon sound policy” and “phony.”
LVCVA: The Larcenous Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority
The Las Vegas Convention Center is an artifact of Mob-era predation and should be sold to the highest bidder
Around 1955, in the still-early days of the Mob in Vegas, the guys running the joints realized that business could be a lot better. What was needed was some way to get more visitors to Southern Nevada.
