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1. By jxtnlv

   6/20/08 at 9:12 p.m.

   Suggest removal

   Ask Chancellor Rogers to run for Governor... in times of difficult business decisions that affect our state, we need someone with experience in running a business! Someone that knows how to navigate the political landscape, someone that has strong business ties across the entire nation, someone that has served as a chief executive in the private and public sectors. Our current Governor and his administration are obviously way out of their league. Let's impeach and elect a Governor that will prioritize his public service and cater to his/her state and its needs.... not a "friend" who advises him on our state's most important matters via text messages... GEEZ!!!

2. By CybScryb

   6/21/08 at 2:03 p.m.

   Suggest removal

   Since so many of the complaints reference the need to make sure the students paths to educations are complete, it makes sense to adopt a rigorous course of action that will let Chancellor Rogers truly demonstrate his leadership skills.

   Place all of the colleges in the north under the leadership of President Glick at UNR and all of the colleges in the south under the leadership of President Ashley at UNLV. Then all courses can be coordinated among the various institutions to provide the best education paths for students. It will also allow the Regents to eliminate a very expensive layer of administrative costs by placing Vice-Provosts in charge at NSC, CSN, WNCC, TMCC, WNC and GBC while DRI can remain a stand-alone, mostly self-financing institution. This allows our best leaders to coordinate both online and classroom courses to eliminate the gaps that are the main complaint of students. It might also finally eliminate the revolving door presidency at CSN and let Chancellor Rogers boot the inefficient out-sourcing of Nevada tax dollars to a Florida based company resulting in the removal of millions of dollars from the Nevada economy and sales tax revenue.

   Best of all, it provides consistent leadership and allows near instantaneous communication between the two Presidents and the Chancellor so that corrections can be made in real time.

3. By vegasboomer

   6/23/08 at 10:11 a.m.

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   The problem with education in Nevada, both K-12 and Higher Education, is that Nevada is attempting to manage a 21st century problem with a 19th century taxation/political system. In more than 30 years as an attorney practicing in taxation and business transaction involved in transaction where I learned to operate in California, Colorado, Illinoi, Arizona and more recently in Nevada, I can say, authoritatively, that this state has a constitution and political mind-set that treats government worse than any fairy tale step parent treated Cinderella. And you get what you pay for. As a result,we are 'blessed/cursed' with a legislature that meets for one abbreviated session every 2 years whether it needs to or not, it cannot meet in special session without being called into session by the governor, and the power of the legislature is hamstrung by a mindset that the people of Nevada would rather have nothing than pay one cent in taxes.

   As with Americans from all states, the economic right wing has us convinced a huge portion of the population of Nevada that government is the enemy, that taxation is our downfall and that we can live without the benefits of government spending. But that right wing isn't the people, it isn't even made up of true conservatives or libertarians, it is made up of corporate elite whose incomes adjusted for inflation have skykrocketed, while working people have been lucky to keep up with inflation, and lately lthat lucky streak appears to have ended. And we've been convinced of a lie.

   The reality is that public education is the one element of government that gives people real hope that they and their children can have meaningful opportunities to improve their economic situation. Rather than talk about who should run for governor or arguing about whether we should cut the budget by firing teachers or re-arranging administrative personnel, the debate should be how do we find the revenue to fund education, not at current levels which are horrifically low even without putting these budget cutting proposals in place. But to accomplish that means overhauling a taxation system that was designed by business people to allow them to earn fantastic sums of money in Nevada, without contributing one cent towards the costs of operating a government for the benefit of the people of this state. Make your voice heard that you aren't being blinded by false promises that less government is good and let your Assembly and State Senate representatives know that you belive that taxation to support worthwhile government enterprise is appropriate and that you expect them to lead Nevada out of the desert.

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