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I have been calling it the Business License Tax since it was released by the governor.
Why?
1. Because it is a tax. 2. Because BLT is acronymically funnier.
Now tax maven Carole Vilardo has revealed she agrees at the top of a line-by-line explanation of the tax bill that will have its first hearing Wednesday:
Please note: This “fee” does not fit the definition of a fee. Because the revenue is used to fund general government expenses, it is a tax. It will be referred to in this document as a tax...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The truth about Tesla’s big project – slowdown or not?
2. Third-of-session grades
3. The BLF cometh
4. Smartest/dumbest moves
Mixed grades from my insiders on lawmakers one-third of the way through. Like a slow-starting or fast-starting student, the last two-thirds and especially the final can flip a semester grade, so it is early. But some instructive stuff below on how they are being perceived so far.
My grades:
Roberson: A-minus....
Ah, Nevada.
No open-toed shoes or blouses without collars. Why? "Hot brass is not fun."
You can buy the rifle package or the machine-gun package.
Get ready you anti-Nevadan Bloombergians!
I wrote about it Sunday.
And today the Carson City Democrats presented their blueprint for Nevada.
Will it ever get off the pages?
It's attached here.
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The matrix to remember, and some premium nuggets
2. The aftermath of the bond rollover fight.
3. The Session of the Gun – where is it going, can Roberson protect the governor?
4. Considering some possibilities…..
5. Smartest/dumbest moves
Great stuff from the insiders, as usual. Some gems:
►Best line of the week: We are witnessing the result of two disastrous initiatives that have and will have a greater impact on the state than...
One day after the Legislature passed a measure to exempt school construction from prevailing wage laws, the AFL-CIO began airing an ad designed to get the governor's attention.
Gov. Brian Sandoval is expected to sign the measure, but the AFL-CIO isn't waving a white flag just yet. The group had been walking in key districts, but could not stop the Assembly from passing the Senate bill on a near-party-line vote.
Here's the ad:
The Clark County Education Association plans to give Gov. Brian Sandoval political cover with supportive TV ads about his education plan.
Here are the first two, which are slated to start next week.
UPDATE, 2 PM: The company sent a dual message Wednesday. Switch executive Lesley McVay simultaneously sent an almost identical letter to the chamber, resigning from the group's executive committee. (Her letter is posted below.)
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After months of tension with the chamber over taxes, the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance has lost its chairwoman to the infighting.
Switch executive Missy Young notified board members Wednesday in a letter that she would no longer serve as chairman. This comes...
Rookie Democratic Assemblywoman Amber Joiner was so thrilled to be at the bill signing ceremony for the school construction bill that she took a selfie.
The picture, which she tweeted (see right), included her Democratic colleagues, Ellen Spiegel, Mike Sprinkle and Olivia Diaz. Two dozen lawmakers attended the ceremony hastily thrown together Wednesday after Senate Bill 207 passed the Assembly with all Democrats and 10 Republicans voting for the measure.
But some of those Democrats, including...
It's running in both urban markets, designed to affect the gun debate, and a sign of the group's enduring presence here.
But can an ad compete with the NRA's influence in gun-happy Nevada? Or sway a vote?