NV: Clark County Commission Approves Gas Tax Increase, But It May Not Be a...
The Clark County Commission voted Tuesday to approve an increase in the gas tax and index it to inflation, which could result in additional annual increases, to provide additional funding for road...
View ArticleNevadans May Soon Discover How Much Going Green Costs
When the Nevada Legislature passed Senate Bill 123, everyone was so thrilled about shutting down all those dirty coal-fired power plants and building millions of dollars worth of bright new clean...
View ArticleNV Energy’s NVision Plan Generates Resistance Across the Spectrum
NV Energy’s NVision plan to decommission its coal-fired generating capacity years ahead of schedule, passed overwhelmingly back in June and supported by leaders in both parties, is beginning to...
View ArticleFederal Ownership of Land Could be Harmful to Nevada’s Economic Health
With over 80% of the land within the state owned by the federal government, economic development in Nevada can be largely at the mercy of one or another of various federal agencies. But a new report...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Rhetoric, Alarmism Increase as Predicted Future Temperatures...
American climate scientist, author and alarmist Bill McKibben earlier this month set foot on the banks of Lake Tahoe at a conservation conference to sound his jeremiad that there must be a...
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Federal Land Agencies Stalling Oil and Gas Exploration in Nevada
One of the major reasons the state Legislature passed Assembly Bill 227 this year — setting up the Nevada Land Management Task Force to study the possible transfer of certain federal public lands to...
View Article‘Science or Advocacy?’— Are Sage Grouse Really Threatened?
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are pliable. In April 2012 Gov. Brian Sandoval set up a sage grouse advisory committee. Governors before him had done likewise. This past session the Legislature...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleSurvey: Tahoe homeowners still view TRPA as frustrating, indifferent
LAS VEGAS — The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is winning national awards from government-planning professionals, but among homeowners in the five counties surrounding Lake Tahoe, it’s the least...
View ArticleLegislation 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...
View ArticleCourt 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...
View ArticleGovernment Agencies Working at Cross Purposes on Protected Species
Never are the agencies of the federal government more efficient, more capable than when they are working at diametric cross purposes — canceling out one objective with another. Agencies such as the...
View ArticleFilling Lake Mead First Would Make More Water Available
The Glen Canyon Institute, headquartered in Salt Lake City, describes itself as dedicated to the restoration of Glen Canyon and the Colorado River to their natural states prior to the construction of...
View ArticlePackage of Bills on Public Land Use in Nevada Clears Committee But Faces...
A package of seven Nevada public lands bills — collectively known as the Northern Nevada Land Conservation and Economic Development Act — recently cleared the House Natural Resources Committee on a...
View ArticleThink Tank Challenges Legality of Nevada Catalyst Fund for Economic Development
A conservative think tank has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Nevada’s Catalyst Fund, a fund administered by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) that provides...
View ArticleLawsuits Challenge Las Vegas Grab for Rural Nevada Groundwater
Rural Nevada counties should be careful with whom they form alliances. This past week two federal lawsuits were filed with the same intended purpose and with many of the same arguments proffered —...
View ArticleFederal Land Agencies Seem Unconcerned About Rural Jobs
The Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to try to stop the greater sage grouse from being listed under the Endangered Species Act, has accused the Bureau of Land Management...
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Research Park Named for Harry Reid Mentioned as Possible EPA Lab Site — Don’t...
The White House has included in its dead-on-arrival budget a proposal by the EPA to build a laboratory and research facilities — currently housed in leased space on the UNLV campus — at the 122-acre...
View ArticleRancher Tries Taming Wild Mustangs and Wilder Bureaucracies
There is a uniquely Western thrill in witnessing a herd of wild mustangs galloping across a sagebrush-dotted hillside. There is a concomitant melancholy to seeing acres of small corrals stretching...
View ArticleThis Land Is Not Your Land
There is no doubt the lingering drought is devastating the cattle business across Nevada, but some ranchers say the problem is being exacerbated by inflexible federal land agencies. Though the Nevada...
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