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Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013 | 2:02 a.m.
On Monday, Nevada’s citizen legislators convene to conduct the people’s business. Regardless of the hard work and best intentions, the outputs of the session are sure to disappoint for the simple reason that the state’s policy demands far exceed legislative capacity. In short, our legislators, many of them with little or no experience, are expected to develop and implement 21st century polices for a fast-growing, increasingly urban and ethnically diverse state in a globally connected region while operating in a legislative context designed for the Comstock era. The consequences of this mismatch between legislative demand and capacity are myriad. Many ...
David Damore is a political scientist at UNLV and a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution.
The columnist has a very bleak view of the future legislative year especially for a Sunday morning at a time when Nevada has a chance for a new beginning. Let's not worry about the number of days being too little to get everything done. Let's worry about using those days wisely and efficiently to do Nevada's most pressing business. It's called prioritizing.
CarmineD