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Sandoval calls Chamber out on tax issue

Gov. Brian Sandoval today released the strongest statement of his tenure in office, after the Tax Foundation criticized his bid to raise the business license fee.

Some Republicans want to throw the feds in jail?

There came a time during the Assembly Judiciary Committee’s hearing Monday when Las Vegas Republican Michele Fiore wondered — out loud — why it was that county sheriffs weren’t arresting federal law enforcement officers (she called them “thugs”) for impersonating police officers.

Who will oppose Hardy?

After Steven Horsford’s surprising loss to Republican Cresent Hardy last year, the ousted Democratic representative said he would go on a listening tour to find out why 4th Congressional District voters decided they wanted change.

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Anybody got an eraser and a pencil?

As the deadline for introduction of bills nears, the Nevada Legislature gives itself an extra day to come up with proposed laws. But some of the ideas to amend the Constitution should be cause for concern.

Not this bill again

Here we go again.

Business group takes stand on taxes!

The board of directors Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance today voted to endorse “in concept” the idea of transforming the state’s business license fee into a progressive fee based on gross receipts.

Sanity at long last on medical marijuana?

A bill, co-sponsored by Nevada’s Dean Heller, would recognize state medical marijuana programs and free patients from fear of federal punishment.

There’s plenty of difference between Republicans and Democrats

It was segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace who declared during the 1968 presidential campaign that “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.”

Democrats unveil blueprint, but still mum on taxes

Nevada’s legislative Democrats unveiled an ambitious agenda of policy ideas today, but the chances of most of them getting through the Republican-controlled Legislature are slim.

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