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Published Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 | 5 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 | 7:30 p.m.
CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid praised Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, dissed a Democratic rising star’s bill and called on the Legislature to go after NV Energy to spur renewable energy projects in a speech Wednesday to the Nevada Legislature. In his biennial address, the Democrat from Searchlight also said the Legislature should pass a law allowing Nevadans to register to vote on election day. He dismissed a voter verification bill being proposed by Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller as a “solution looking for a problem.” In the same speech, he praised Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval — twice. Once for ...
excellent Harry
...keep up the good work...
zzzzzz.....
I like 'elections are all the term limits we need'
Also, "...(a term limit) denies our constituents the right to select their own leaders"
Harry's poignancy is augmented in the shadow of a discussion of solar possibilities, the long term solution which flies in the face of local power-hoarding conglomerates insistent on burning their coal in their 60-year-old climate changing, carbon launching lung-fuq machine while more free energy batters their porr clients than anyone knows what to do with! Even as solar efficiencies are skyrocketing even as prices are still falling!!
dollar a watt solar PV equals burning coal and selling a KWH at $0.06. That's where the world is tonight...it's been one long road from the space race of JFK to the popularization and proliferation of solar panels of BO, but we did it. G'night. See you when the SUN COMES UP manana
GREAT WORK, HARRY!
Nevada and renewable energy go hand in hand.
We have the most sun in the country,
let's use it.
Nevada and renewable energy go hand in hand.
We have the most sun in the country,
let's use it."...hey Teanster, there's goldmine there!
Not to mention the jobs we all need to:
#1 upgrade the housing stock so
#2 the solar PV installation HANDLES the load by itself - keep it under 3 kw for 2-4 people 1200 sq.ft., under 5 kw /duplex by
#3 goolobs of good paying jobs - insulation, upgrading HVAC to high SEER mini-split heat pumps, water heaters solar first plumbing, glazing, roofing, framing, elec...
So that in the end what we get is good jobs, healthy environment, curious kids, engaged populace and a rising value of housing stock of this quality of sustainable upgrade.
When the dang thing comes out even in what you pay versus what the sun makes, then they call it net-zero. In Las Vegas, this is extremely DOable. So is the recovery, but do you think Las Vegas is? Really? C'mon.
Joe.....
We can hope, dream and maybe Nevada will get
something done.
Renewable energy is the future.
We can also dream about mag-lev trains while
Europe and China already have them.
Too bad a lot (most?) of the solar panels being sold here are made by Chinese companies (and supposedly Rory has his finger in that pie.)
Spain is the renewable energy model. Holding steady at 25% unemployment.
When retail and the service sector employees take the ObummaCare hit and hours are reduced to part-time status we'll really be moving 'Forward'.
After the speech he called term-limits "un-American."... Speaking to today's reporters, and of course HIS voter base it's similar to lecturing barely post puberty eighth graders with attention spans reminiscent of a young litter of puppies. Along with same day voter registrations should come simple qualifying questions such as , can you print and write your own name, are you an American citizen, name one Supreme Court Judge and one of the Bill of Rights.
What the corporate media and political parties are doing to this country by exploiting a very large portion of hard working, good natured illiterate population is an absolute disgrace and dispicable.
Wasn't Senator Reid returned to Washington to, somehow, do the business of the Federal government rather than the state? Since he seems inclined to give people advice, here is a little for him:
1. bring a comprehensive federal budget to the floor and actually ask your side of the aisle to vote up or down on it.....this BS of running the Federal government on one big "continuing resolution" is an awful abdication of your job.
2. lead the senate -- that means bring bills and amendments expeditiously forth so members of the Senate can be ON THE RECORD....and that includes you.
3. Get ready for sequestration -- it is going to happen -- so the least you can do is try to help different departments of government figure out a way to institute the spending cuts that are coming.
4. Try -- really try -- to not become the U.S. Senator who totally destroyed the decorum and conduc rules of the Senate, which has functioned for 250 years, as you play your petty political point scoring games. People actually have to talk to each other to craft policy.
5. And get over the fact that sometimes people really just disagree with you -- a lot -- and have a bit of humility to recognize that this might just mean you are wrong from to time. Like President Obama, you seem to have developed this sentiment that you always have it right.
Basically, Senator, why not leave Nevada to the people in the state legislature and go do YOUR job.