Hugh Jackson
Editor at Nevada Current
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2 weeks ago |
nevadacurrent.com | Hugh Jackson
A pair of Republican U.S. senators are casting shade on the prospect of Donald Trump’s most Nevada-centric campaign promise making it to the finish line in Trump’s big budget bill. “There’s some things that the president wants, like no tax on tips and overtime. All this may be hard to fit in completely,” Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) told Semafor.
Democrats ignore Nevada's upside down, regressive, and unfair tax structure. Again. • Nevada Current
2 weeks ago |
nevadacurrent.com | Hugh Jackson
Democrats nationwide are awash in conflicting opinions about how to stanch the loss of young and working class voters before the U.S. backslide into autocracy is irreversible, if it’s not already. Some Democrats blame “wokeness.” Some Democrats say the party needs to lean in on kitchen-table issues. Some think they should do nothing and just wait for Trump and Trumpism to collapse under the weight of its self-generated slagheap of corruption, lawlessness, malice, and counterproductive policies.
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1 month ago |
nevadacurrent.com | Hugh Jackson
Most of the tariffs on imports that have been decreed by Donald Trump were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of International Trade Wednesday. While markets were rallying Thursday at the prospect of a halt to Trump’s trade wars, it is unclear whether the ruling will mark a dramatic curtailment of Trump’s tariffs or merely add to global economic chaos and confusion Trump’s policies have created.
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1 month ago |
nevadacurrent.com | Hugh Jackson
Neither Catherine Cortez Masto nor Jacky Rosen were in the U.S. Senate when the Commodity Futures Modernization Act was passed a quarter century ago. But both were in Nevada when Las Vegas was an epicenter for the wildly irresponsible mortgage backed derivatives market that did so much to cause the Great Recession that hit Nevada harder and longer than any other state.
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1 month ago |
nevadacurrent.com | Hugh Jackson
“Nevada’s economy is already suffering from the chaos caused by President Trump’s trade wars, which have blown a $350 million hole in our state budget,” Nevada Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager said in a joint statement this week. “Congressional Republicans’ new plan to cut federal SNAP funding will cost Nevada another $50 million every year, shifting that cost onto Nevada taxpayers.
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Trump’s assault was on U.S. democracy as a whole. But the voters for whom he showed the least respect and the most malice were those in Nevada and the other 6 states where Trump and his henchmen conspired to organize fake electors. https://t.co/B2efNxBZEq
A Florida-based group was at the taxation department when it opened the first day of the submission window. Its applications alone maxed out the program, meaning there was nothing left for the five remaining scholarship orgs to claim. https://t.co/ZkER3mGlK6
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