Nevada Policy Research Institute’s TransparentNevada.com today released its annual list of government employee salaries in the State of Nevada. A total of over 2,000 state, county and city government workers made more in total compensation than Governor Sandoval last year.

Las Vegas may soon be host to another NASCAR race, snatching one from Charlotte, NC. But the deal may hinge on maintaining its exemption from the state’s entertainment tax.

The federal government owns more than 85% of the land within the state of Nevada. The state passed legislation decades ago to begin the process of taking control of its federal public lands and could continue to follow through.

Some of us were so concerned with the potential rationed care for our elderly and the invasion of our private healthcare information and decision process that we did not articulate one of the consequences of this law, the growth of government funded by us, the American people. The way this law is written, it is actually one of the largest tax increases on the middle class.

Senate Democrats in Nevada introduced a bill today that would increase and expand Nevada’s Modified Business Tax to provide more funding for education. The MBT is a tax politicians in both parties have condemned as a job-killer and vowed to eliminate.