Workers

Yes, I agree. It would like lifting up a sagging house and replacing its foundation. But that’s what the state needs.

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.

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It’s long been a practice of the states to tax their wealthiest industries to help support what gives them hard working, well educated workers.

That’s a very fair question.

In the industrialized countries the US ranks nearly at the top of spending on education but ranks near the bottom in test scores, making Nevada the bottom of the bottom.

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Governor Gibbons has declared his very conservative intentions on how to get re-elected Governor.

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Governor Gibbons, sticking to his “no new taxes” mantra tells state workers that he values their suggestions on how to save the state from bankruptcy, but that their sugges

* Local emergency management workers are nervously eyeing a winter storm headed out way that is likely to bring snow in the higher elevations, but rain in the moderate to lower elevations.

With sales and property taxes in continued decline, Carson City Manager Larry Werner has drawn up three 2010-11 budget scenarios and has asked department heads to trim their budgets according to each

I congratulate and commend Harry Reid on his statement comparing the opposition against reforming health care to the opposition against abolishing slavery.

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Governor Gibbons will meet with the news media next Tuesday morning to outline his major state budgetary concerns.

Nevada’s worsening economy is weighing heavily in Las Vegas with city workers there becoming more fearful by the day for their jobs.

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Gov't: Stimulus saved, created 650,000 jobsStaff Writer

WASHINGTON - It's the clearest sign yet the recession is finally ending: Employers laid off far fewer workers in July, the jobless rate dipped for the first time in 15 months and workers' hours and pay edged upward.

ATLANTA (AP) - Pregnant women, health care workers and children six months and older should be placed at the front of the line for swine flu vaccinations this fall, a government panel recommended Wednesday.

Intuit's 120 layoffs include 25 in RenoRENO (AP) - About 25 workers in Reno are among those being laid off by Intuit Inc.

Intuit's 120 layoffs include 25 in RenoRENO (AP) - About 25 workers in Reno are among those being laid off by Intuit Inc.

RENO (AP) - Five workers laid off last year from a northern Nevada mine have filed a civil lawsuit against a Canadian mining firm, claiming they were denied severance pay, notice, medical claims and retirement contributions required under...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers have amended a the health care overhaul bill to allow workers who lose their jobs to keep their employer-provided care until they get new coverage.