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How to Get Rich While Losing Money: Take Other People’s Money

So, tell us again why Nevada taxpayers handed SolarCity $1.2 million to open an office in Las Vegas to compete against existing companies that install rooftop solar panels. Allysia Finley reports in...

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NV: As Battle Lines Form Over Margins Tax, This Is What The Fight Is About

The November 2014 mid-term election is still a year away, but the campaigning over a key ballot question should be starting in earnest soon. The Nevada State Education Association managed to gather...

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How the Margins Tax Would Squeeze Businesses and Kill Jobs

Though the November 2014 mid-term election is still a year away, business leaders are starting a drumbeat of opposition to a tax initiative on the ballot. Voters will be asked whether to impose a 2...

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Nevada Rancher Testifies Before Congressional Committee About Abuses by...

On Tuesday, the House Subcommittee on Public Lands conducted a hearing on “Threats, Intimidation and Bullying by Federal Land Managing Agencies,” featuring a number of Western ranchers, including Wayne...

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Nevada Margins Tax for Education Not Likely to Raise As Much As Teachers...

When the Nevada State Education Association teachers’ union placed a 2 percent margins tax on businesses on the November 2014 ballot, the union estimated the tax would bring in $800 million a year in...

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NV: Washoe County Commission Kills Controversial Tax Increase

The Washoe County Commission refused to take a vote earlier this week on a controversial measure that would have increased sales and property taxes in the county to provide funds for maintenance of the...

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Education Might Not Get an Additional Dime, Even If the Margins Tax Passes

Money is fungible. This fact appears to have escaped the backers of a margins tax on businesses that is supposed to raise money for K-12 education. The measure is on the November 2014 ballot. The...

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Obamacare Subsidies May Cost Nevada Families Nearly $16 Billion

Many Nevadans are losing their insurance or seeing their premiums increase, but that’s not the end of the bad news from Obamacare. Nevada families will be hit with an estimated nearly $16 billion in...

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Obamacare Is the Route to Single Payer System

It’s not a bug. It’s a feature. Yes, the Healthcare.gov website is a dud. Yes, people are losing their health insurance plans that they liked. Period. Yes, the prices of new individual policies are 41...

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Legislation and Litigation Target Endangered Species Act

Nevada’s Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Mark Amodei have joined with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky to introduce a bill that would take the power to regulate intrastate endangered and threatened species away...

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Nevada Supreme Court Rules PERS Information Is Public, Or Not

In a recent decision, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that certain information in the state’s Public Employee Retirement System (PERS), such as benefit amounts, was public information. However, part of...

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Nevada Division of Insurance: Despite President’s “Fix” Canceled Plans Are...

Despite the announcement from President Obama of a proposed “fix” that would allow insurance companies to restore canceled plans for another year, Nevadans who have received cancellation notices from...

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Despite Improving Economy, Nevada PERS In Worse Shape

Even as the economy in the Silver State showed slow but marked improvement in 2013, the health of the Nevada Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) deteriorated. The official unfunded liability for...

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Nevada’s Minimum Wage One of Highest in Nation

Protesters are leading fast-food workers in walkouts demanding an increase in the minimum wage, President Barack Obama is calling for raising the minimum hourly rate and some are claiming his signature...

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Preventing Another Mortgage Meltdown; AEI Launches Center on Housing Risk

Nowhere was the devastation from the collapse of the mortgage market felt harder than in Nevada. The Silver State went from the lowest unemployment rate in the nation to the highest, for years the...

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Court Ruling Could Spell Doom for Las Vegas Rural Water Grab

This past week’s ruling by a state judge is doubtlessly the last straw for an already moribund attempt by Las Vegas to expropriate groundwater from Lincoln and White Pine counties. Though the Southern...

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Federal Judge: Federal Agency Is Aiding and Abetting Child Smuggling

If you thought Fast and Furious was an insane criminal conspiracy engaged in by the Department of Homeland Security, wait till you read what a federal judge in Texas says about DHS’s co-conspiracy to...

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Lawyers, Justices Support Nevada Appeals Court But Would It Benefit Nevadans?

Once again members of the Nevada Supreme Court are pressing for the creation of an appeals court to reduce their workload. At the urging of the justices, the 2013 Nevada Legislature passed SJR14, which...

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Monetary Policy May Be Stealing Your Life Savings

Life may not be meals, as one best-selling book claims, but both should be balanced. A balanced meal, of course, is one in which the last morsel from the cord of string beans is followed by the last...

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Low Enrollment Continues to Plague Nevada Health Link

Enrollment in Nevada Health Link, Nevada’s online health insurance exchange, remains far short of its target. The program has reached less than 10% of its goal for the first open enrollment period of...

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