Tuesday, October 20, 2015

NEVADA NEWS & VIEWS 10/20/2015


Small business owner to run for Nevada State Senate District - Long-time small business owner Eugene Hoover is pleased to announce his intention to run for the 15th District State Senate seat in the upcoming June 14, 2016 election. “The 2015 Legislature handed down the largest tax increase in the State of Nevada’s history. Why do our representatives not see that this is counter-intuitive to what our state actually needs to grow and be successful?” Click here to continue reading


Miller: ACLU using weasel words in ESA suit - Inadvertently, the ACLU’s recent Las Vegas Review-Journal op-ed was actually illuminating. Illuminating, because it reveals how much the organization’s case against Nevada’s Education Savings Accounts has to rely upon historical ignorance and weasel words. Take, for example, the ACLU’s recurrent use of, and indeed dependence upon, the word “sectarian.” Click here to continue reading

National Coalition to fight Gun Control - In 2013, the National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban, comprising 39 state and national organizations, played a large role in forcing the NRA to withdraw support for the so-called “Toomey-Manchin compromise” on what was deceptively called “universal background checks” for gun purchases. As a result, S. 649 (“Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013“) spectacularly failed in a series of recorded votes which contributed to Republican takeover of the Senate in 2014. Click here to continue reading

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