One simple question. What happens when the session ends and there is no budget approved? Does the state govt. shut down? Do employees get paid in vouchers instead of money (like Ca. did)? Is everyone laid off? Anyone know?

I see the proposed cuts from the colleges and universities, but what about the NSHE system administration? Surely all those chancellors, vice chancellors, assistant vice chancellors, deputy vice chancellors, system lawyers and so on can afford to give up some of their perks and six figure salaries. How much money is being taken off the top by the suits before it even gets to the schools? And how many tens of millions of dollars are being funneled into the system computer center hole?

This really, really bugs me! John Ralston may be the only person in the state that gets the fact that state employees and local govt. employees are very different people. Local govt employees are represented by unions, don't pay into PERS, and generally make MUCH higher salaries than state employees. State employees by law, cannot have collective bargaining,must pay into PERS, and generally are paid 80% or less of the salaries of local govt. workers. For some jobs, such as Firefighter, state employees may only make 30%-50% as much as local govt employees.

You people on these rants about OVER PAID PUBLIC EMPLOYEES don't have a clue. State and NSHE employees aren't union, and sure aren't overpaid. It's your Clark County and city employees who rake in the huge bucks with fat union contracts. Here's an example, a Clark County firefighter makes a 100,000 + salary. A state of Nv. wild land firefighter makes about $12 an hour and works in much rougher conditions.

If you want to rant about public employees, fine, just rant about the correct ones.

I gotta ask, why would this dude give up his stash to a security guard? Just tell that rent a cop to bite it and leave.

He has a typo, he didn't try to trademark "Tea Party Candidate" he tried to trademark "Tea Bagger candidate" which is what he really is.

Why is it that every loser, half witted wanna be, and z lister turns up here in Vegas?

Hey, I remember 19.95 rooms, .99 all you can eat breakfasts, .99 giant shrimp cocktails, free shows and all the other good stuff that WAS Las Vegas. It was why I went several times a year and always had a blast no matter whether I won or lost a few hundred bucks at the tables. What's Vegas now? Paris Hilton and a bunch of other "celebrities" that I wouldn't cross the street to have dinner with. $300 a night rooms, $100 dinners, etc. Who needs that crap? That's why I go to Reno now, at least they still know how to have fun without trying to extort every possible dollar from people.

Gibbons re-elected? HA! In a three way race with Stalin and Hitler, Gibbons would come in a distant third. And Stalin and Hitler are dead! What's that say about Ol' Dirty Jim's chances for a second term?

Gov Gibbons nickname in N. Nevada is "Ol'Dirty Jim" and he's earned it. His skirt chasing antics are legend, and seem to involve mostly married women. And they go back far before his divorce started. I have no doubt that everything this woman said about him is true. The paper might want to ask some of the female employees at the gov's office and mansion about his roaming hands and comments to them.