Education
Barbara Buckley Presents Her Nevada2020 Plan in Reno
While some state legislators have apparently been finding new ways to deregulate the state medical insurance industry and enrich their former employer (Sen. Bob Beers), others have been stepping into the leadership vacuum created by the election of Governor Jim Gibbons and going about the very serious business of governing the state (Hair flip to [...]
Isabelle Allende Speaks At UNR on Thursday
I must urge any one who appreciates Allende’s work, along with anyone who love great authors and great books to attend Allende’s lecture on Thursday at 7pm in the ballroom of the Joe Crowley Student Union at UNR and hosted by The Reno Latino Research Center. I’ve seen Allende speak twice and both times [...]
The Buckley Proposal: Nevada State Democrats Showing Leadership
Since no one else seems interested in exhibiting any leadership regarding Nevada’s economy, Speaker Barbabra Buckley has stepped up to the plate in a big way. Buckley is organizing state Democrats to undertake an ambitious process to overhaul the state financial structure. The project is called Nevada 2020 and Buckley is taking the [...]
Judy Blume: Another Hockey Mom on Sarah Palin
Okay, I know most of the women out there my age read Judy Blume’s “Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret,” and hopefully “Forever” (because that one had real sex in it!). Blume truly influenced a generation of young girls with those books. But what I remember most about “Margaret” was the character [...]
Nevada’s Education Budget Cuts
Nevada Speaker Barbara Buckley will hold a press conference Monday at 11:00am asking Governor Gibbons to “reconsider his proposed education budget cuts.” It’ll be interesting to hear what alternatives Speaker Buckley and the state Democrats are proposing in place of Gibbons’ proposed 4.5% cuts and whether their plans include both k-12 and higher [...]
Raising College Tuition Is A Tax Increase
Nevada’s Governor Gibbons and Chancellor Rogers are proposing to increase tuition in a state that received an F grade on its affordability rating in the 2006 National Report Card on Higher Education as a part of the governor’s plan to mitigate the state budget crises. From the report:
Nevada’s under performance in educating its young [...]
What’s So Funny about Online Education?
I don’t know if you caught it, but NPR recently broadcast a series on the increasing popularity of online education in the United States. This is definitely true in Nevada where online education has become an increasingly important aspect of the state’s higher education strategy. Hey, with our poor high school to college rate, [...]
Joe Enge Is New Deputy Director of Nevada State Office of Energy
Joe Enge is about as qualified to be the Deputy Director of the NSOE as, well, me. Enge used to be a high school history teacher and is now an educational analyst for local conservative entities. So the real question is, what kind of posterior activity, besides some attention directed in the general [...]
What Harry Reid Has Been Up To
Besides selling out on torture and caving to the Republicans on funding for the Iraq occupation, Reps. George Miller from California and Ruben Hinojosa of Texas have rewritten Harry Reid’s peer-to-peer file sharing amendment that was defeated last year into the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, or COAA. The COAA might force colleges [...]
Dean Heller Conference Call
Once a month, Congressman Heller holds a conference call that I usually ignore, just because I figure that most of the people who bother to participate are Republicans and the conversation would be of no interest to me. I think Heller deserves praise for taking the time to communicate in an almost one-on-one manner [...]
Reno and Beyond: Mancake Jay Kincaid In A Bikini?
I always suspected that Stanley Scandalmonger was into S&M, But a rack is pretty extreme. Even I don’t have one of those in my closet.
If only Gayliens would take over earth.
I’m sure like me you are one of the millions of Americans who I didn’t remember that Monday was Constitution Day, but its a [...]
Reno and Beyond: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Bathroom Sex
Rep. Porter advises a continuation of the Iraqi occupation to keep gas prices down. And to answer Josh’s question is: In the case of Porter–definitely.
Come on. You gotta admit that the Desert Beacon’s post on “progress” in Iraq is funny. Except, its not because its about a war, and people [...]
Reno and Beyond: What?! I’ve Got A Wide Stance!
Okay everyone, quit picking on Larry Craig. He’s not a homosexual–he’s married with millions of children. And there’s no crime against being a bisexual or having a wide stance. But yikes, this well-researched post by Glen Greenwald positively skewers some right-wingers who deserve it, because, let’s face it, nobody likes a hypocrite.
Granted, [...]
Reno and Beyond: The G-Spot Is Closed
Bloody hell! Where did the G-spot go? Where is Bjorn the Houseboy going to pick up my, you know, supplies? Does anyone know what happened?
The Larry Lessig bipartisan crew (of which I am gratefully a part) is still agitating for all the news outlets to make debate footage available in the public [...]
Reno and Beyond: Gold, Guns And Ammo Edition
From Holland Project’s Flickr Photostream
Did you see the fireworks commemorating the the re-opening of Virginia Street? They shot off a lot of those little screaming fireworks that looked like flying sperm. Cool.
The hamster wheel that is the state government continues to turn, just not very well. Jon Ralston wonders if anyone [...]
