Great article on how Nevada can fix a broken property tax system.
LAS VEGAS — Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Montandon on Wednesday called for broad-based reform of Nevada’s property-tax system by returning to market-based assessments and scrapping property-tax caps enacted in 2005.
The three-term former mayor of North Las Vegas made the comments in the wake of [...]

Mayor Montandon finished with 39% of the vote in the recent Carson City Central Committee Straw Poll. The final results were Montandon 39%, Gibbons 40% and Sandoval 20%.
Expectations were high for Gov. Gibbons to poll well in his own backyard but the grassroots support for Mike Montandon showed once again the people’s discontent with the [...]

Mike is continuing to prove that Nevadans connect with his message. He recently won the Clark County Central Committee Straw Poll, taking 34% of the vote and beating Brian Sandoval and Governor Gibbons. Read more about the poll here.

Our ignorance is assumed, even counted on, in the war against our freedoms. Even a cursory examination of the history of the first ten amendments to our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, would give us an indisputable argument against the forces that assail our liberties.
First, why was it amended right off the bat? The discussion [...]

It really is that simple. The Empowerment School model works. It works because America works, and our free market system works, and it is a model of that system. An empowerment school reverses the direction of the flow of money. In our current system, the money flows to administration (central), and from there to the [...]

An aquaintance of mine, Matt Russell, shared some thoughts with me about the stimulus bill. Although I don’t believe a word of it, those currently in power say the purpose of the stimulus package is primarily to create jobs.
I personally think it is more about pork, a way to retain/increase their power base and to [...]