Rep Titus has sold out the people who put her in office and it will be remembered next election. She is more concerned with the 1.5% of the richest people in her district than the 137,000 in her district with no insurance. If she cannot live up to what she promised during the campaign this will be her last term in office.

Nevada is going to die as a state unless we as citizens stand demand to keep the services we expect from state and local government. The governor and legislature both are too cowardly to call for what is needed to save this state - a state income tax like 46 of the states in the union. The 46 states which have income taxes have not crippled their economies by having an income tax, Nevada must join the real world and face the facts.

Gibbons doesn't have the answer, the legislature is afraid to stand up and propose the real answer to the economic crisis in Nevada and that is to raise taxes, the best fix would be a Nevada state income tax. We are going to see our state die a fast death unless we face reality it costs money to run the state and we as residents who need and expect the services must pay for those services.

Decisions are made by the insurance company not the individual, wake up to that fact.

I agree with Commissioner Chris G, these things should be banned, they clog the stip and are prevelant in disrupting rush hour traffic throughout the valley by moving slower than posted speed limits.

Of course the chamber and the gamers agree on stopping legislation which gives workers a more level playing field when trying to organize a union. Business is business and the more it can keep rather than paying its workers or providing health care and retirement benefits, the better they like it more profits, higher CEO/management salaries.

SEIU has been around since the early 1900's 60 + years before the weather underground and even a thought.

Senator Ensign gets it wrong again, what exists now allows corporate bosses to intimidate workers who want to have a voice in the workplace, I guess as long as the corporate greed mongers are in charge and can hire union busting firms and fire workers who attempt to form unions then this is pro-American. Ensign is flat out wrong about the Employee's Free Choice Act - it gives the workers the right to choose either an election or card check as the means of determining if they will have union representation. In other words it promotes democracy, something Ensign considers Anti American - shame on him.

I am a member and former officer in SEIU Local 1107 and your article in Saturday’s paper does not capture the entire situation in this local. Ms McAlevey being called a reformer is a real stretch, as she was the chief organizer of the Members United to Win campaign to remove dissident officers from the local’s executive board and replace them with her loyalists. This campaign is the subject of a U.S. Dept of Labor investigation which issued four preliminary findings of violations of federal labor law (Landrum-Griffin Act) by using union money, money from non members, and membership lists to conduct an officer election campaign. This is hardly reform in my eyes but rather corruption.

Unfortunately removing Ms McAlevey from the local does not fix the problem as those staff members whose salary is paid by the rank and file members and who were promoted as reward for their willingness to follow Ms McAlevey’s violations of federal labor law remain on staff at 1107. Ms McAlevey herself remains as a paid (by SEIU International, with members dues money) consultant for four more months. Additionally the officers who benefited from and participated in the tainted election remain on the executive board. Andy Stern, president of SEIU International may believe that this cosmetic fix will satisfy rank and file members but he is mistaken. The rank and file want all remnants of corruption purged from leadership roles in this local and will not be satisfied until that happens.

It's ironic that part of McAlevey's overall plan was to replace Hedderman with Hamel and now that has happened. McAlevey and Andy Stern supporter is being replaced by another Andy Stern supporter, so overall the local is under the finger of the international and if anything, more control has been lost by rank and file members which is Stern's agenda for all of SEIU.