Pork refunds
In today's Journal (that's the Las Vegas Review one, not the Wall Street) three stories caught my eye.
The first being the news that I may not get my $150 check from the state after all. You see, after the Legislature approved the new budget, they discovered they had an extra $300 million. (I wish I could make that kind of discovery when balancing my checkbook.) What's cool though is that Governor Guinn wants to give that money back to the masses in the form of car registration rebates. What's not cool is party politics over the issue to pay taxes on the rebate money and the fact that not everybody who pays taxes drives.
In other news, three separate mixed-use communities have been approved by Clark County commissioners. But, ho lookey here, developers are sidestepping land restrictions that prohibit homes on former airport property. The problem? The deed restriction says you can't use airport land to promote a residential development. The loop hole? "Urban villages"- new communities that commingle condominiums, shops and office spacewhere residents can, according to the sales pitches, "live, work and play." Gee, in other parts of the country they just call them neighborhoods.
And lastly we come to this tidbit- a bill creating $2.5 million in funding to help gambling addicts has been approved by the Assembly and now goes to the Gov for signing. The idea is to take $1-2 of the current slot tax from every machine in the state and put it into a pool for grants and treatment/prevention programs. I just wonder how many gamblers have to play the slots into order to fund the program that will help them stop playing the slots?
Steele
The first being the news that I may not get my $150 check from the state after all. You see, after the Legislature approved the new budget, they discovered they had an extra $300 million. (I wish I could make that kind of discovery when balancing my checkbook.) What's cool though is that Governor Guinn wants to give that money back to the masses in the form of car registration rebates. What's not cool is party politics over the issue to pay taxes on the rebate money and the fact that not everybody who pays taxes drives.
In other news, three separate mixed-use communities have been approved by Clark County commissioners. But, ho lookey here, developers are sidestepping land restrictions that prohibit homes on former airport property. The problem? The deed restriction says you can't use airport land to promote a residential development. The loop hole? "Urban villages"- new communities that commingle condominiums, shops and office spacewhere residents can, according to the sales pitches, "live, work and play." Gee, in other parts of the country they just call them neighborhoods.
And lastly we come to this tidbit- a bill creating $2.5 million in funding to help gambling addicts has been approved by the Assembly and now goes to the Gov for signing. The idea is to take $1-2 of the current slot tax from every machine in the state and put it into a pool for grants and treatment/prevention programs. I just wonder how many gamblers have to play the slots into order to fund the program that will help them stop playing the slots?
Steele
posted by Mia Zachary at 10:33 AM
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