Here’s an idea for increasing affordable housing in Las Vegas: repeal the law requiring new mobile home parks to pay $5,000 per unit “water tax.” Check out this memo from the Legislative Counsel Bureau’s Scott Young…
Real estate people tell me that there hasn’t been a new mobile home park built in Las Vegas since the [...]

Last week, I got to emcee Fred Thompson’s public appearance at Stoney’s.
Channel 10 (one of a handful of government TV stations in Las Vegas) asked me some questions prior to the candidate appearing. As Beers’ Blog readers already know, I believe the presidential candidate - of either party - who aggressively promises to change federal [...]

A reader emailed in a good idea for saving some state budget money.
SNWA bought those ranches in south Spring Valley and they are tax exempt. The former owner/ranchers paid taxes, and that was why their road was paved and maintained by NDOT. You see my point.
Let the road revert to dirt [...]

Only a few of us here in Nevada are wildly passionate about nuclear waste.
But we are all passionate about water.
We get about 4% of the water going past us on the Colorado River. About three quarters of the rest is used for agriculture on the Mojave Desert. These allocations date back to when Hoover Dam [...]