If we can tax the casinos in good and bad times and not allow them to deduct cost of running the gaming tables and slots, then Mining should not be allowed to deduct either.

Sign me up.

I don't think this is foolish, but at the same time I agree that a broad based business tax is a good idea if it allows us to make this a better place for all.

Low taxes have not done enough to attract major companies to setting up here, now we need to look to make our foundations in education, public safety, and transportation better then bottom of the barrel.

Construction costs won't be this low for ever. I believe this was the right move.

Energy efficient savings and the need not to update the infrastructure of the old building will reflect in yearly budgets.

Everyone just sees the one #, not the long term operating costs. If you don't understand business management and operations that perhaps not commenting would be recommended.

Before the boom this department has less officers per 1,000 residents then the average in the nation. That does not include the tourists.

I have seen so many neighborhoods, even mine willing to pay a couple more dollars per house on a monthly basis to have Private Security patrol. Ours sent out a survey and more then 70% was willing to pay more, and more then 60% of the 70% were willing to pay $2.50 or more dollars a month.

This shows safety is peoples #1 concern.

So all you that dismiss the police as a service that can be done with less, wait until you need them and there is an hour or more wait because of backlog on calls.

Perhaps Harry Reid will look at these results and think twice before throwing his support behind the DesertXpress for campaign fundraising.

Even if the money comes to the MAGLEV project can anyone tell me what people in Nevada will be working on the engineering and environmental studies?

Most if not all is going back out to specialists in other states.

Perhaps Governor Gibbons would be intelligent enough to know this fact, but then we must be asking to much from him.

I have high regard for the fire personnel, but the union leaders are leading the pack down the wrong path that could create a huge amount of back lash. The company I worked for did a pay freeze and laid people off.

I would think the fire personnel rather see no raise then the risk of losing a job.

Lets be fair and lets be just.

If anything to help supplement the fire department, instead of privatizing maybe go partially volunteer. I lived back east where volunteer personnel working side by side with a paid employee worked great.

First thing is the Monorail is a success as it does cover its operating cost. Just not its full debt of construction costs.

That means that once bailed out if might not need yearly subsidies as the CAT system does.

Bail it out and allow the money that is above and beyond its operating go to a bank fund to help launch the expansion to the airport and downtown.

Imagine the day where you don't have 500 cabs sitting outside the airport with their engines running sending off smog and causing other traffic nightmares.

How does G and H get noticed but not F.

I hear this to often and I am an activist to help communities, but this is a lack of people reading their mail.

Imagine what this state could do with a little more money. I moved here and enjoy no income tax, but realize that this state is at the bottom of every bad statistic.

The parasites like DS, Native Nevadan, billsail and more just want to get their police, fire, medical, roads, and they probably are retired so feel they don't need to pay for schools as why do they need education?

This is sad that the no income tax of this state attracts such parasites. Time to reform while keeping taxes low, just not unrealisticly low while letting the fundamentals suffer. One does not have to be a tax and spend liberal to care for the state and do what is right. Will you do what is right?

If you think retail is the only place for business you are sadly mistaken. We have become a retail economy which has lowered the middle class income levels. We need more businesses that invent and innovate.

We need an educated population to feed the new economy, which was what the industrial revolution, silicon revolution, and many other economic evolutions were based on. Obama has it right, we need to get back to the roots that made this country an economic power house. We need to invent, produce and continue to invest in staying ahead.