Happy New Year! PUCN Approves Rate Change NV Energy So.Nevada Customers get 3.5% increase

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada last week approved an annual revenue increase of $158.6 million for NV Energy’s southern utility. This increase is offset by decreases in other rate components effective January 1, 2012. The net result is a 2.7 percent increase overall and an approximate 3.5 percent increase for NV Energy’s southern Nevada [...]

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Stop Oil Speculation Now Coalition

From the Stop Oil Speculation Now Coalition: We want to bring another important matter to your attention that will harm consumers and airlines, and cost jobs. Airlines and their customers are now being threatened by a proposal to increase airline taxes to tackle the deficit. The S.O.S. Now coalition, we are asking you to support [...]

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CBO estimates AJA would increase direct spending by about $175 billion for 2012-2021

The Following is a letter sent to the Senate Majority Leader, Senator Harry Read (D) of Nevada, from the CBO – the Congressional Budget Office in regards to the American Jobs Act as proposed by President Obama.   Honorable Harry Reid Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Mr. Leader: As you requested, [...]

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Hoover Power Act Passes House

“… Hoover power is critical to Southern Nevada’s economy, businesses, and consumers. Hoover power is clean and affordable, and today we took an important step toward making it stable. Today, Congressman Joe Heck (NV-3) made the following statement regarding passage of H.R. 470, the Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2011: “The Hoover Dam is located [...]

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Another tax increase

According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, President Obama has increased the debt more than every other President in American History. In fact, your debt has increased by more than four trillion dollars in less than three years. That’s right. $4,000,000,000,000. This is a scary number but every day I am reminded of an even [...]

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White House: $1.3 billion more in Nevada will ‘create’ 10,000 new jobs

President’s jobs bill gives money to same government organizations, employees as first stimulus bill — yet expects far better results By Steven Miller and Kyle Gillis Nevada Journal LAS VEGAS — President Obama claims his recently proposed American Jobs Act could provide $1.3 billion to Nevada and create nearly 10,000 jobs. But what the historical [...]

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Why unemployment persists

Geoffrey Lawrence Nevada Policy Research Institute Part I Artificially cheap credit destroys markets, damages society Thursday, August 4, 2011 Pundits and policymakers are easily perplexed by economic recessions and their most visible manifestation, unemployed workers. To these commentators, it is mysterious that labor unemployment remains high across the nation despite massive federal deficit-spending policies, financial [...]

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FOREIGN AID: A TIME TO RECONSIDER

Mr. Speaker, I want to follow up on what my friend has just said about cutting Federal spending. I agree, cutting $400 billion is really not much of a cut, especially in these times when Congress continues to spend more and more money. So let’s talk about some specific areas where we ought to reconsider [...]

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Nevada Division of Mortgage Lending issues fines and takes enforcement action in 7 matters

Las Vegas – The Division of Mortgage Lending continues to diligently enforce mortgage lending laws by disciplining 7 entities for various violations of those laws. The Division has recently taken the following actions: Cease & Desist Order for The Consumer Advocacy Group and Kristy Sinsara – to view the order, Click Here Cease & Desist [...]

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Soros insider trading case to be reviewed

George Soros, the international investor and one of the world’s richest men, is to have his 2002 criminal conviction for insider trading reviewed by the European Court of Human Rights. Mr Soros appealed to Strasbourg after he was convicted by a French court of insider trading in 2002 in relation to his conduct during a [...]

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Does Social Security need to be fixed?

There is a lot of talk going around about how the Republicans want to phase out Social Security, or even do away entirely with it. Well, speaking as a Social Security Disability recipient – if I believed the Democrats I would be scared to death! I mean without that monthly check, we would have lost [...]

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Glad I don’t smoke anymore! N.Y. Tax Boosts Pack to Almost $11

Folks I am happy to say that I have been smoke free for more than four years now. And for a guy like me who used to smoke 3 packs a day, and living in the fantasy land Las Vegas that’s saying something! Trust me it was not easy task, and I think the only [...]

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A Fair Wage – documented or not?…NOT!

The video and the Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis speaks for themselves.  Why?  I don’t know.  But I really would like to know where it says – undocumented, illegal aliens have a right to anything – never mind being paid fairly! What is the point of becoming a citizen of the U.S. – if [...]

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Taxpayer Monies Used to Promote Islamic Jihad

Federal Judge Asked to Enter Judgment Against Government in AIG Bailout June 8, 2010 In a motion for summary judgment filed this week, Federal District Court Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff was asked to enter a judgment against U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the Federal Reserve Board over the federal government’s bailout of AIG.  The [...]

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Obamacare & Illegal Aliens

Here we go again! WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to the Congressional Budget Office, the 2019 non-Medicare population of the United States will include 14.1 million illegal aliens. CBO projects that up to 8.5 million of the 14.1 million illegal aliens in the United States in 2019 will not have health insurance, meaning passage of their [...]

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A Man ahead of his time…AGAIN!

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video …

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…you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime

THAT my friends was then… But as with many/most campaign promises made by inexperienced, immature politicians – it is NOT that they are not telling the truth or that they are out right lieing to us – they just don’t know any better!  They are ignorant of the facts of life – and that if [...]

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OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR HARRY REID

From FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM Dear Senator Reid: Like all Americans, we sincerely hope that the $787 billion economic stimulus bill you shepherded through Congress results in millions of new jobs. We are disappointed, however, that you failed to provide the American people with the assurance that these jobs would go to legal U.S. [...]

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Today…

…is the first day of the rest of our lives!  And so this blog is born on the LVTSG site, the Sin City-247 site and the Kensei-news site to start a new journey.  It will be under development for a few days as I tweak it here and there to make sure I get it [...]

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