David Colborne
Opinion Columnist at The Nevada Independent
Opinion columnist for @TheNVIndy. Rural sympathizer. Epistemic trespasser. @wendy_colborne wife guy. @[email protected]
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1 week ago |
thenevadaindependent.com | David Colborne
To lower card processing costs, the Assembly was asked to support more financial innovation through AB500 — but it also had to accept who might stand to profit. Two votes. AB500, a bill that would have allowed for the licensure and regulation of payments banks, should have been a slam dunk. Sponsored by Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) and amended by Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, it certainly didn’t lack institutional or political support.
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3 weeks ago |
thenevadaindependent.com | David Colborne
Are expanded film tax credits a bad investment? Sure, but so is everything else that isn’t tied to hospitality and entertainment in Las Vegas. In December 2007, the unemployment rate in Nevada’s two most populous counties exceeded the national unemployment rate for the first time in six years.
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1 month ago |
thenevadaindependent.com | David Colborne
SB48 shifts power — power that Southern Nevadans already have — from appointed commissioners to the city councilors we elect. When was the last time you voted for a planning commissioner? If you’re like most Nevadans, the answer is never.
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1 month ago |
thenevadaindependent.com | David Colborne
Installing a tracker on a politician’s car isn’t constitutionally protected political conduct. With modern cars, however, nobody needs to. A little-understood truth about technology is that it doesn’t enable us to do new things. It merely allows us to do what we’ve always been doing, only faster and easier. Take this column, for example.
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2 months ago |
thenevadaindependent.com | David Colborne
If you think what the president is doing is bad, wait until dozens of upwardly aspirational governors follow his example. In 2013, the Sacramento Bee published a scathing investigative report about a state-run mental hospital in Las Vegas that was throwing mentally ill people onto buses with bottles of Ensure nutritional supplement and one-way tickets out of Nevada. To his credit, Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval didn’t dig in his heels.
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