Gibbons

I agree. Gibbons is considering a plan that would result in shutting down our community colleges and stopping all university athletics in the state, but we have money to decorate a freeway?

CARSON CITY – Nevada’s Transportation Department, which came in for some criticism last year for what was described as a slow start to spendi

Saying that proposed cuts of up to 22% would severely crippled Nevada K-12 education, the President of the Nevada Education Association said today that not raising taxes is not an option, as far as sh

CARSON CITY – Higher education Chancellor Dan Klaich said today that proposals made by Regent

Would this transfer jobs out of Northern Nevada to Southern Nevada? Is Jim Gibbons a better friend to Southern Nevada? This guy has to go and the sooner the better!

CARSON CITY – Nevada Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford said today that dozens of cuts proposed by Gov.

In a continued effort to stem the state budget’s free fall, Governor Gibbons is recommending the long talked about closure of the state’s. Oldest prison Nevada State Prison.

State Budget Talk: University Chancellor Dan Klaich told his Board of Regents this week that if Governor Gibbons cuts the state budget 22% across the board, it would obliterate Nevada’s system of hig

CARSON CITY – In the face of potential college campus closures, hundreds of state employee layoffs and a state budget crisis of unprecedented proportions, there was a tiny bit of good news delivere

CARSON CITY – The official Nevada Recovery site uploaded new data this weekend in response to a

RENO – Those charged with overseeing Nevada’s system of higher education heard several scenarios today if the current state budget crisis requires cuts of 22 percent, from closing campuses to huge

We’ve gotten some comments over the past 24 hours that were honest expressions of frustration and disappointment about how things are going in this country, and in Carson City.

Mr. Hataway,

Some alternative ways of raising money. Nevada has a tax system that is far harder on low to middle class taxpayers than just about any state in the country.

A sigh of relief that could be heard ’round the State Capitol came from what Governor Gibbons told local city and county officials today.

CARSON CITY – Gov.

Look Nevadans the only way to relieve this burden is to raise taxes-plain and simple; laying off those who work is not the answer-that creates more stress Mr.Gibbons-I know this is NV but this is n

All points with the exception of Reid’s money are well taken, but as brutal and painful as it may sound salaries and fringe benefits make up a large percent of state budgets be they state agencies,

If there are no ability to adjust revenue, then layoffs, furloughs, salary reductions or some combination thereof will have to be in the mix to address the state budget shortfall.

State workers are not just numbers to be “adjusted.” They have families to feed, mortgages to pay, etc. just like the private sector.

The big prediction around the Capitol is that Governor Gibbons will outline the state’s budget shortfall of just under a billion dollars, refuse to raise taxes, and then announce the layoffs of up to

(Click image to play video)
With the state’s budget money disappearing faster than a pile of cards at a magicians’ convention, Nevada cities and counties are meeting with Governor Gibbons to ask him t

(Click image to play video)
It was another classic Gibbons shoot from the hip incident with another typical understated response from Gibbons’ favorite press release target, Sen. Harry Reid.

(Click image to play video)
Despite the horrible and worsening condition of the state budget, Governor Gibbons appears to be sticking to his vow that he will not raise taxes and that the state will ha

(Updated at 2:50 p.m. on Jan. 27, 2010)

CARSON CITY – Nevada’s taxable sales fell by 10.9 percent in November 2009 over the same month in 2008, making it the 13th month of double-digit declines in economic activity in the stat

Points well taken. Again, Nevada’s taxing authority as it exists today in no way matches today’s fiscal challenges to keep the state whole.

The special sessions I have observed since the 80’s have basically been fairly routine.

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

(Click image to play video)
Governor Gibbons addresses Nevadans on the dismal state of the state with a promise to blame Democrats for causing much of it, with some help from the recession.