What the Heck, Joe?
Rep. Joe Heck was handed a dream piece of legislation — a chance to bring jobs to his district, diversify the economy and even do something good for public lands. The legislation would have protected Gold Butte, Nevada’s Gateway to the Grand Canyon, by declaring it a national monument. Heck was handed this on a [...]
Senator Dean Heller and Congressman Joe Heck think big oil needs our tax dollars, but using taxes to help the uninsured, the elderly, or veterans is “government waste”? Well now I’ve heard it all. Thankfully, there are some groups trying to bring this atrocity to the awareness of the voting public. Flanked by a hulking [...]
Continue reading …Families for Healthy Communities Send Mom’s Day Message to Congressional Reps
May 13, 2012 No Comment
(Las Vegas, Nev.) – Mothers and their children made Mother’s Day about clean air and healthy communities May 12 by creating messages to go to Nevada’s federal congressional representatives. Moms worked with the Nevada Conservation League to create the event at the Roots Community Garden in Las Vegasin support of legislation to control dangerous chemicals [...]
Continue reading …I know this might be shocking to some of you that Americans expect Congress to act in times of national crisis, but it would appear that Republicans and their tea drinking consultants have been operating under the belief that Americans want Congress’s response to economic catastrophe to be absolutely nothing. To be fair, Republicans have [...]
Continue reading …Republicans (the people who are all about the Constitution when it’s convenient) are all up in arms with President Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray to be the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Apart from the political motivations, this argument over the legality or prudence of the President’s alleged circumvention of the [...]
Continue reading …“Steven Horsford, Nevada’s Democratic majority leader, plans to run for the U.S. House in a bid that could see Nevada elect its first African-American to Congress and put the state Senate under the GOP’s control.” Horsford will formally declare his candidacy Thursday in North Las Vegas. He hopes to succeed Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley, who [...]
Continue reading …That’s what could happen if supporters of a bill in the House Bill 822 have their way. Ambiguously called the “National Reciprocity Act,” HB 822 would require all states to honor any concealed weapon permit issued by any other state. Put another way: the barrier for obtaining a concealed weapon permit and using it anywhere [...]
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Despite being a born cynic, or maybe because I am a born cynic, I’ve never been much on secret conspiracy theories. Occam’s razor is usually pretty sharp, and it leads me to reason that we really did go to the moon and that Bigfoot isn’t just a shy, arboreal primate, but nonexistent. I also suspect that [...]
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This was the scene outside Dean Heller’s Las Vegas office today. While Dean Heller continues to oppose anything he considers “not good enough“, meaning not painful enough for working class Nevadans, our country faces deep problems. This isn’t the first time Heller has felt the heat from his constituents, and I doubt this will be [...]
Continue reading …Last week, ProgressNow Nevada unveiled a powerful billboard in Reno that pushed back against the billions of dollars in tax breaks the oil industry receives every year — and the right-wing politicians and front groups who defend them. While Americans are struggling with high gas prices and billions of dollars in cuts to community programs, [...]
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