Friday, Jan. 17, 2003 | 5:47 a.m.
It isn't uncommon when the Nevada Legislature meets to see local governments from Southern Nevada and Northern Nevada pitted against each other, as each region jockeys for its "fair share" of revenues generated by state taxes. But the revenue wars among local governments may be put on hold this year: They pledged last week to band together to fend off any attempt by state legislators to irresponsibly take money away from local governments to solve state government's budget woes.
If the Legislature did squeeze money from local governments, that would mean either taxes would have to be raised or services would have to be reduced at the local level. Financially whacking local governments this way also would be the height of hypocrisy: State governments always have criticized the federal government for shifting to them more responsibility to provide services without enough funding.
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