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The attacks on Ford aren’t about Ford: Why the AG race matters
A bunch of mining industry guys from California and their California bankers and California lawyers decided in the 19th century to put Nevada’s capital in a mining camp, and Nevada has just left it sitting there ever since. As a result, like the overwhelming majority of my fellow Nevadans, my contact with the Nevada Legislature […]
A day without the ACA…
Opponents to Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court are genuinely, and not unreasonably, concerned that the court could ultimately overturn the Affordable Care Act altogether. Seizing on provisions in the Trump-Republican tax bill that eliminated the individual mandate from the Affordable Care Act, several red states have launched what amount to legal challenges to […]
Nevada teachers’ union opposes Question 3
The teachers unions around here can’t agree on anything. Thursday, the Nevada State Education Association (NSEA) announced that it opposes Question 3, known as the Energy Choice Initiative. “We oppose Question 3 because electricity deregulation is a failed experiment that has resulted in higher electric rates in other states,” NSEA President Ruben Murillo said. “At […]
Woodward rudely rains on Kavanaugh’s parade
Poor Brett Kavanaugh. All he wanted was a dignified Supreme Court nomination process, and instead his hearing was lined with women dressed as extras from The Handmaid’s Tale, people were yelling all the time about everything, and horrible terrible Democrats (as if there are any other kind) tried to scuttle Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing before it […]
LV metro area job growth is nation’s 2nd highest; wage growth isn’t
From July 2017 to July 2018, employment in the Las Vegas metro area grew 3.9 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment grew faster in only one U.S. metro area, Orlando, at 4.3 percent. Raleigh, North Carolina’s 3.9 percent employment growth tied that of Las Vegas. Employment growth notwithstanding, average earnings aren’t keeping […]
Democratic PAC challenges Heller campaign’s right to exist
Dean Heller’s has been operating a campaign operation without a license for 5 years, “raising questions about whether his campaign is authorized to exist in Nevada,” according to a political action committee that supports Democratic candidates. “Today, a search of the Nevada database of registered businesses reveals the business license status of Heller for Senate […]
Report measures material hardships among working adults
As of May, 660,000 Nevadans were on Medicaid, most of them mothers and children, or the aged, blind and disabled. In 2016, a monthly average of 440,000 Nevadans in 140,000 households received Supplemental Nutritional Assistance — food stamps. Roughly 70 percent of those households were families with nonelderly residents in which typically at least one […]
Nevada ranks as fifth most golfy state, sort of
Nevada has the fifth-highest golf industry location quotient in the U.S., the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this week. Right. What’s that mean? “Location quotient” the BLS says, is “the ratio of an industry’s share of statewide employment to its national share. A location quotient greater than 1 means the industry share of statewide employment is higher […]
Sandolak? Sisoval?
Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval may not endorse Democratic candidate for governor Steve Sisolak, but Sisolak is endorsing Sandoval’s agenda. Sisolak released a pair of ads over the weekend that all but gush over Sandoval and his signature accomplishments. In one of the ads, Sandoval even makes an (unauthorized, presumably) appearance. “When Governor Sandoval did the […]
Diversity intensifies preexisting segregation; Las Vegas stands out
A University of Minnesota researcher this week compiled some statistics on the increasing segregation of U.S. cities between 2000 and 2016, and Las Vegas really stands out. Specifically, in 2000, 37.5 percent of black Las Vegas metro area residents lived in segregated areas. In 2016, it was 71.2 percent, according to a chart compiled by […]
About Sandoval snubbing Laxalt…
Last week, Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval announced that no, in point of fact he would not, could not, bring himself to hold his nose and endorse Adam Laxalt, his party’s nominee to succeed him. Now seems as good a time as any to remember that about this time of year in 2011, Sandoval endorsed Texas […]
Laxalt: No need for Nevada to act on 3D gun blueprints
Attorney General Adam Laxalt says there is no need for his office to join legal efforts to prevent a self-described “crypto-anarchist” from posting blueprints for printing 3D guns on the internet. Earlier this summer, the Trump administration’s Justice Department reached a settlement effectively allowing a Texas company to publish 3D gun blueprints online. The Obama […]