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Published Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 | 6:45 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 | 9:22 p.m.
Gov. Brian Sandoval struck a moderate and optimistic tone in his second State of the State speech on Wednesday night, as he presented a $17.6 billion proposed budget for the next two years to the 2013 Legislature. In his address, which may have telegraphed themes of his expected 2014 re-election campaign, Sandoval emphasized the progress Nevada has made over the past two years since he was elected- 30,000 jobs created, more than halfway to the 50,000 jobs he has committed to creating. “The last two years have been a success story, not fully realized, but undeniably on track,” he said. ...
Anjeanette Damon contributed to this story.
1969 in Seattle, as Boeing was going down, the signs read "well the last person to leave Seattle please turn out the lights". Now they have Micro Soft and Nintendo, and Boeing is back on top. Untill some one in Carson City figures out how to diversify the state we well always be on the "hind tit" of the nation waiting for crumbs to fall from the tables of the states and nations which are recovering from the Great Bush Recession. Sandoval has failed and well continue to fail for the next two years. Then a Democrat well take the office and simply, by the national recovery, be given credit for Nevada's recovery without doing anymore than Sandoval has done. Sucks but watch it happen.
HOW, where are the details to this plan, as Governor Brian Sandoval stated, "A sky-rocketing caseload growth in health and human services is mostly responsible for the added spending, he said. But he emphasized his proposal to spend more money on education.
"My commitment to K-12 education has also increased spending for our schools," he said. "But we must only allow for growth that our fragile economic recovery can bear.""
HOW will the governor's plan help education? Details please. So far, education in Nevada has seen a shift to the Growth Model, which is far more reasonable than No Child Left Behind; but with that, Nevada has seen a mass exodus out of teaching into administration, which is more costly and growing. We all should be asking questions as to HOW all this is going to get funded, and if it is SUStainable.
Blessings and Peace,
Star
We need a well educated populous in order to diversify. However, it has to be simultaneous.
We need students who are on a study path in mathematics, engineering, sciences, technology, and languages.
By always emphasizing the hotel and entertainment components of the LV Valley, as Macau beckons, we are cutting short the potential of the citizens who live here. We will fail to attract what is necessary to diversify AND provide higher paid jobs unless we do some serious changes in education here.