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.

Water from the Colorado River is allocated according to a compact created in 1922. Changes in population in the West have made it obsolete and policymakers are grasping for solutions, though an easy one eludes them.

The first major tax bill of the 2013 Nevada Legislature was introduced on Wednesday by Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick. The bill introduces the Nevada Entertainment and Admissions Tax (NEAT), a revision of Nevada’s current live entertainment tax.