flashpoint:

You remember Bob Packwood, the ex-Oregon senator

Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 | 2 a.m.

You remember Bob Packwood, the ex-Oregon senator who makes John Ensign look gallant. His words about luring businesses to his home state in the Willamette Week should be heeded by the NDA. “I think that a major business — that its primary factor in locating a business is the tax structure in that state? I don’t think that’s the primary factor. Especially if you’re any kind of a business that requires a relatively educated labor force, I think you would be more concerned with what kind of education ... what kind of physicists and engineers you turn out than what is the tax rate … If we really could afford a sensational higher education system, that would be a greater factor in many businesses’ decisions.” Anyone listening?

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By jlb101

Sept. 17, 2009

7:59 a.m.

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If you locate your business in a state that has low taxes you can always fulfill your personnel needs by recruting from any of the forty-nine others. Many well educated people, especially the younger ones, would locate to a state that has low taxes and lower property values so they can enjoy the benefits of affordable home ownership. Can you imagine a bright young engineer accepting a job in the San Francisco Bay area. Even with a starting salary of $75-80 thousand dollars you couldn't buy a home, and the high rents, taxes and other high cost items preclude this person from easily saving enough for a down payment.

In Nevada and other states the taxes are lower, housing is less expensive, and home ownership is much easier to obtain than the more expensive states. I know many who have moved here and most think it is a very desirable place to live. If the Democrats take control of the governors office, I think this will be a much less desirable place to live and I know of many who will pick up and move a lower cost state. I may be one of them.
By NLV-Indep13

Sept. 17, 2009

4:21 p.m.

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Devil's in the details. CCSD needs to figure out how to signficantly raise test scores for K-12; UNLV, NSC, & SNC all need to align & synchronize their programs so that there is less waste and duplication of effort while simultaneously focusing on & expanding programs they do well; and the politicians need to figure out how to create an environment friendly to entrepeneurs & and the development of a well educated workforce. All without new taxes. NV & LV has a lot of potential -- we just haven't found the type of leadership we need to get us there.