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DEADLINE QUICKLY APPROACHING FOR FEDERAL HOMEBUYER TAX CREDIT
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Last week, the Nevada Board of Regents held a meeting in what marks the beginning of nine weeks of discussion on how to further reduce their budgets to adjust for the 6.9 percent cut in funding agreed upon by Nevada Legislators during the special session in February.

Carson City Supervisor Pete Livermore has filed for the Republican nomination for Assembly District 40. Livermore, 68, is termed out after 12 years on the Board of Supervisors.

In a mixed bag meeting Thursday, city supervisors turned down a chance to raise property taxes $220,000 for their beleaguered city budget, but set into motion the process that could raise water rates

Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert, R-Reno, said her surprise decision announced today to leave public office has nothing to do with rumors that she could be appointed to serve out the remainde

On The Reflection In The Mirror
By Karl Neathammer

CARSON CITY – Because of the tense relationship between the Legislature and Gov.

As state lawmakers scramble to fill a nearly one billion dollar hole in the state budget, political warfare has escalated between Governor Gibbons and the Legislature.

CARSON CITY – Assembly Republicans, who haven’t had a majority presence in the Legislature in 25 years, are working with their Senate col

On The Census
By Karl Neathammer

CARSON CITY – As Gov.

Whowuddathunk? Miss Sarah, the charming storyteller and patron saint of the Tea Party, actually did get one thing right in her speech at the Tea Party convention last week.

State Senator Bill Raggio called Governor Jim Gibbons’ speech Monday day “strictly political” and that to blame the state legislature for the state’s financial troubles is an incredulous poltical stat

CARSON CITY – Gov.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am an avid reader, a book hoarder, a library employee, a graduate student in a Library and Information Science program (delivered almost exclusively online!),

Yes Woodie, an honest question.

Well presented. Compelling. I do understand a call for a book repository. Not only for books but for anything recorded in any medium.

One of the reasons I ran for President was because I believed so strongly that the voices of everyday Americans, hardworking folks doing everything they can to stay afloat, just weren’t being heard ov

Excellent observations and suggestions on our current fiscal crisis.

As Nevada lawmakers, the governor and other elected and appointed officials ponder how to prevent the sinking of the State of Nevada, debate, and some of it angry, roils around picking additional sour

Unfortunately, mining is a cyclical industry, so while there may be substantial revenue one year, mining taxes can be a dry hole the next. Same for big gaming.

Sounds like gangs to me… Wish we had a Sheriff who knew something! Anything! About Law Enforcement! Maybe then our deputy’s could make a real dent in the city’s gang population.

When we initially activated the comment feature of the website, one of our primary focuses was on hoping to elevate the level of discourse in local politics and news issues.

By Carson City resident Karl Neathammer
It has been my observation and I believe even a cursory analysis of our political history will show that all political ideologies and movements eventually e

Looks like the threat of mutually assured political/public destruction led Jim and Dawn Gibbons to finally come to an agreement to end their marriage.

Breakups are usually sad affairs, and the implosion of the marriage of Jim and Dawn Gibbons is no exception. Having met and talked with both of them on multiple occasions, it's hard not to feel sorry for them.

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Governor Gibbons, with all his personal and political problems, has all but been abandoned by the bulk of the Nevada Republican Party.

On Better Government-The Illusion
By
Karl Neathammer
A historical analysis will show that the American people have chased the political pipe dream of “better government” (whatever this amorphous and i

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A poll taken last week statewide shows that Sen. Reid may have a tougher campaign for re-election than he expected.