Andy Matthews
Death tax deception
Dick Patten, president of the American Family Business Institute and occasional NPRI writer, has a new piece out for Human Events in which he takes President Obama to task for his skullduggery over the death tax.
A response to NSHE's efficiency report
Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Jim Rogers has issued a report on NSHE efficiency improvements, which you can read here. Nevadans should certainly welcome the release of this report, and Chancellor Rogers ought to be applauded for reversing course on his earlier public claim that he would not detail NSHE cost savings. One can't help but be skeptical, however,
Care to rephrase that?
A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tried to explain why 11 House Democrats voted against the economic stimulus.
You were saying, Mr. Gore?
Why does it seem like every time the global warming alarmists plan an event so they can howl about our pending doom, it gets canceled...
The change we really need
The Right should give substance to the slogan.
Insofar as "change" – whatever exactly that was supposed to mean – seems to have triumphed at the ballot box in November, complete with some serious coattails that have altered the balance of power in our own state legislature, the new "out" party and its philosophical allies now need to recognize the opportunity they've just been handed.
Responding to LVCVA criticisms
I wanted to take this opportunity to comment on Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Ben Spillman's blog post, which covers our Thursday morning conversation about criticisms of NPRI's report on the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Down at the DNC
In her speech last night at the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton said something that probably won't get much media attention but that caught my ear nonetheless for the stunning economic illiteracy it revealed.
Be careful with this one
The Tax Foundation’s new study is not a case for tax hikes.
It's easy to imagine the glee with which Nevada's ever-higher-taxes crowd must be greeting a new study from the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, which found that Silver State residents enjoy the nation's second-lowest state and local tax burden.
The room tax
Today's Las Vegas Review-Journal editorializes on the Nevada State Education Association's efforts to push through a 3 percent increase to the room tax, with much of the revenue to be allocated for public education funding.
