Free Nevada wrote on July 03, 2009 12:44 AM: @Jason, Laughlin is a community catering primarily to retirees and river rats and those groups tend to need the services of fire and paramedics in under an hour (via a giant truck).

But imagine having just the equipment parked down there and the awesome 350mph MagLev routing through Laughlin and Searchlight on its way to Primm and Vegas. In a medical emergency, it could go into "non-stop" mode and have someone from down there up to St. Rose Dominican in just a few minutes. In fire emergency mode, a car full of firemen from Henderson would be sped down to Laughlin, grab the equipment out of storage and go...

Jason wrote on July 02, 2009 11:00 PM: They should feed off the budget of the Fire department in Laughlin. Does anyone realize that our budget for them in this town is over 14 million dollars... Please realize this is for Laughlin only. They do keep busy by going to the Library, food shopping and if you go past the Dept sometimes you can watch as they hit golf balls in the desert. It was to my surprise when recently One of our Captains (in which we have 14 of them here) received the spirit award. Wow imagine that. I would have spirit too if I was making with benefits over 182,000 a year doing nothing!!

bbkld5 wrote on July 02, 2009 05:19 PM: Does anyone remember that part of the governor's submitted budget included tax revenue generated by the Washoe County Gas Tax, a bill he promised to sign and allow to go into law? The tax increase should be called the "Buckley/Horsford/Gibbons Tax Increase".

kay wrote on July 02, 2009 03:10 PM: Feck;
When obama runs up $10trillion I'll start screaming. I never heard a peep out of you during the past decade. So, now, I'm enjoying the show being on the other foot! "Oh the horror of deficit spending!!!!" LOL!! Just keep spending and cut out taxes!! I'm an American!

"It's amazing that you disregard economic data because of your political leanings." What does this line reference?! What data is the poster discussing? Must be a Rancho High flunkout!

See wrote on July 02, 2009 02:58 PM: See we told you so.

Nevada is an ABUSIVE State.

Since the old retirees voted for these Legislatures, let them pay the taxes.

Stupid Nevada voters.

We kept telling everyone.

Now look.

Bad cops. Bad Judges. Bad air pollution. Bad City leadership. Bad roads. Bad water. Bad schools. Bad economics. Bad. Bad. Bad.

My house is for sale.

More PROOF of a Bad State.

Free Nevada wrote on July 02, 2009 02:49 PM: @Jeff, there's one on the books but you have to find a quarter of the people who actually voted to do a recall and any change to that law would likely take half a decade to ratify. We can be taken over by a federal trustee long before that could change. (Remember, NV is mostly a federal territory already and we don't have much to work with in terms of money to turn the economy around.)

Feck wrote on July 02, 2009 01:34 PM: Kay- since you hate Bush's spending habits so much, why aren't you yelling even LOUDER at Obama's/Current congress' spending habits. They make Bush seem like a fiscal conservative in comparison for Feck's sake!

I propose a tax on the sand that a growing number of Americans use to stick their heads in.

My Name is Kay and I'm stupid. wrote on July 02, 2009 12:54 PM: It's amazing that you disregard economic data because of your political leanings. The economy never fully recovered after the tech bust. Artificially low interest rates...couple that with home loans with no verification, add in some investment banks and real banks merging. Recipe for disaster. Republicans and Democrats are responsible. But, because you are an enlightened democrat, you are already smarter than everybody else...

kenodave wrote on July 02, 2009 12:48 PM: Let's face it folks, we haven't a qualified leader in the state. It's not an easy job and ours have proven they are not up to the task. Where do we go from here?

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