Dixon wrote on July 10, 2009 08:56 PM: The Chamber of Commerce is worried about retirements, salaries, and benefits of past and future govermnental employees while they support businesses who break the law by hiring illegal emigrants which is against the law. Gaming and business do not want anything but cheap labor and no tax raises especially in gaming. Casino execs making millions a year are on tv excited about a workers retirement package.

Cronies wrote on July 05, 2009 09:57 AM: You have three government cronies looking for waste and they can't find any. FRANKLY I am shocked. NOT!

It is as shocking as when the Coroner Inquest or Metro's Internal Affairs finds Cop didn't do anything wrong.

Yes sir. The Fox has discovered that no chickens were missing from the Hen House. LOL

Hold the presses!

Thanks for the laugh Jane.

Gregory Brown wrote on July 03, 2009 08:06 PM: There are several factual errors in this account, most significantly that the new regime for pensions and retiree health benefits does not take effect until 1 July 2010.

Secondly, every single SAGE recommendation concerning PEBP was rejected by the legislature. This may have been because the proposals regarding health insurance were opposed by nearly half (5 of 13) of the Commissioners. The proposals were based
written by a man whose expertise is in auto insurance and had little evidence to back them up.

The cost savings for the state from PEBP result from recommendations made by the PEBP board itself, not the SAGE Commission.

Lastly and most interestingly, JAM doesn't discuss the disastrous SAGE Commission meeting in Las Vegas in early May, when the Governor gave a rambling speech and could not answer a question about why out of state retailers pay almost no taxes -- and then he rejected out of hand Chairman James's recommendation that the state invest in preparing for the 2010 census by making funding available to the universities to help ensure the Census Bureau gets a full account of all Nevadans. The Census Bureau estimates that the state lost $1.5b over the last decade due to Nevadans it missed in 2000, and by rejecting this recommendation, the Governor cost the state at least that amount in the coming decade.

re-link wrote on July 02, 2009 09:26 AM: .














.

tom1 wrote on July 02, 2009 09:03 AM: Jane please get a clue or quit your job and save us the tripe. If you decide not to get with the program, you are bound to be left in the dust along with the rest of the socialists come 2010 and 2012............LOL....

wow,once again the most worthless suck @$$ columnist on the planet post useless articles wrote on July 02, 2009 09:03 AM:
gibbons wasted nothing but tax payer money trying to rape mazzeo and lied about it
costing investigation dollars we have not even begun to spend yet.

wake up lady.

allowscriptaccess="never"
src="http://oddhammer.com/tutorials/debt_clock/US_debt_clock_dynamic.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
width="340" flashVars="topString=Hello&bottomString=World"
height="155">



.

LVMPD wrote on July 02, 2009 08:20 AM: David Goldwater? It's good to see you...
Sober.

http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2331620

zack wrote on July 02, 2009 07:45 AM: The SAGE Commission is a joke - they did not do anything but screw over the employees while leaving all the needless programs in place. I see the state is still heavily funding enviromental projects, NDOW is wasting tons of money studying wildlife they should already know about, many state agencies are paying private consultants more money than they are paying their own employees (state workers on furlough and cannot work O.T. while private consultants are working O.T. to cover state workers duties) and the list goes on. Helen Weils you are so far off base when evaluating government waste, you totally focus on employee salaries and don't see that most of the waste is hidden from the public in the way each agency operates. The agencies would save money if they would quit hiring private consultants for up $120 an hour and let their own workers do the work, or let their own workers do projects instead of bidding them to private contractor. The State could change the some of their enviormental laws and save a billion dollars easy, example go ask NDOT how much money they spend getting an EIS for each project. Why do they need that document to reconstruct I-15 in the middle of the city, I will tell you why because of the enviromental laws and the sue happy enviromentalists, change these laws and an agency like NDOT will save millions of dollars every year.

HELEN WEILS wrote on July 02, 2009 07:17 AM: NO BLOATED GOVERNMENT??? LET'S START WITH COP AND FIREFIGHTER PAY AND BENEFITS.

normoes wrote on July 02, 2009 07:14 AM: I'm sorry - I'm still one of those mean skeptics. I think it's a joke to tell us that our state government isn't wasting money. Within this commission's own report they said:

"Without question, we have several redundancies in government; there are 170 entities in the executive branch, and many are overlapping."

What was that? "170 entities" in the executive branch alone! - many of which "are overlapping"? How many other "redundancies are there in all the layers of our state government that "overlap"?

Kenny Guinn spent 40 million about four years ago to start a "teacher's college". It's not like there aren't several ways to get a teacher's certification here in southern Nevada - UNLV, Nova, Pheonix University, among others. Guinn spent the 40 million to "start-up" this new school. It's going to cost millions more each year to keep it going. I call this an unnecessary waste of taxpayer money. We didn't need this college then and we don't need it now. And, this is just one example I know of - how many other state government "pork" programs are out there under the radar?

So, no, I don't buy this commission's message that our state government is doing all it can to be cost-effective.

Read All Comments