Nevada doesn't spend enough on services as it is. What we call rainy day money should have been spent on providing REAL services to the sick, the handicapped, the mentally ill and those stuck in grid-lock traffic. Nevada has been under the impression that taxes and services are optional and can be reduced to 10 dollars per person every other year. Yet we've got half the population walking around with thousands of dollars of tatoos on their bodies and their $65,000 motor homes parked on the street in front of their double wides.

How can you put "excess" funds levels commensurate with being a state of the union as it is. This state should rename itself Nevada, the taxaphobic state.

Titus kicked his butt. Blueprint for Obama, hopefully.

No Child Left Behind is going to be kicked out the window next year. McEducation is about as intellectually nutritious as their burgers....

When the economy is good, we have a state, with a decent University System. When the economy is soft, we don't. When the economy is good, donors give. When the economy is soft donors give IN OTHER STATES when a state is committed to sharing the financial load. When Nevada continues to advertise to the world that it's a state when they've got money, and a territory when they don't, it makes a mockery of any attempt to raise private funds. There's no substitute for a RESPONSIBLE state government to invite and demand that the centers of wealth and power within the state contribute THEIR FAIR SHARE and not put up with sniveling from people who have more money than God. Even in hard times.