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Last Friday, there was a bipartisan decision in the Nevada Legislature's budget committees on whether to go ahead with drastic cuts in public employee benefits -- including health benefits for retired workers -- that had been recommended by Gov. Jim Gibbons and a state commission stacked with businesspeople. Conservative senator sipping tax hike Kool-Aid Word on the street is that it's not moderate Republican senators who are pushing aggressively for tax hikes in legislative negotiations right now, but a conservative Republican state senator who has signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and works for a construction association when not in session. Letters to the Editor Drama for Mama I was going to visit my mother on Sunday and bring her a jonquil and a ballpoint pen for Mother's Day, but that's all off thanks to my brother, who is awaiting trial for mail fraud. His lawyers have asked me not to discuss his case, and so I won't, except to say that he's guilty, the little stinker, and richly deserves what's coming to him, but of course you can't tell Mother that. |
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