by Dennis Myers
This MoDeRn WoRlD
by tom tomorrow
Give the Nevada Legislature a grade Asked at a lunch meeting of the Nevada Women’s Lobby Janice Flanagan Retiree
It is bad. It’s bad for middle-class Nevadans. I think they’re pandering to a very small base. They’re very afraid of the primaries that they will be facing during the next elections, and so they’re setting up their sound bites for that. I’d give them a D.
Jan Browne Retiree
I would give them a D, because they are not catering to what I consider the middle of Nevada voters. They seem to have a right-wing agenda.
Sarah Galetti Development director
You’re on your own
Probably a D. I really feel that there was a lot of legislation that came up that had to do with women’s health and school and guns, and all the crazy things. I was disappointed that the major issues like jobs were taking second place. … It’s like watching a comedy routine at times.
tapped. Legislators should incentivize bicycle use, but Reno’s Bike to Work Week starts May 9 and runs they can’t think this way because it doesn’t put money through the 15th. You can get more information on it at in their pimps’ hands. http://bikewashoe.org. We’re a sponsor, so that means You’d think the medical-pharmacological-insuranceupon death, you can turn in your chit as an indulgence industrial complex and government would jump at for all manner of sinning. the chance to decrease insurance costs for people who You know, every year since 2005, we’ve written one ride their bikes. You know, those so-called diseases of of our we’re-all-in-this-together, feel-good-about-yourplenty, like obesity, heart disease and diabetes strike self-for-helping, save-the-planet, it’s-for-the-children the physically fit much less than they strike the fat-asseditorials. This year, after watching our Legislature in-SUV types, right? It’s easy to track whether you’re of Whores posture their convictions while bending riding your bike or walking. What do you think your over gratefully for their contributors, we thought we’d cell phones and FitBits do? But then, approach it from a different angle. Legislators should how would insurance companies actuYou’re on your own. ally maintain their astronomical fees Do not count on government to incentivize bicycle if we increased fitness and decreased do any of those things that a rational use, but it wouldn’t the lung and heart disease caused by person would do. Our Legislature air pollution and a sedentary lifestyle? has done nothing—nothing—to help put money in their Nope. You’re not going to find stave off climate change by encouragpimps’ hands. any help from those who benefit by ing individual investment in greener keeping you sick. technologies or to discourage the use You’re on your own. The changes you make in your of air-polluting, planet warming hydrocarbons. own life, and the feels you get from good health and No, they’re actually working to figure out ways to personal connection to your commuting route, are the discourage the purchase of electric automobiles by talkonly rewards you’re going to get for riding to work. ing about increasing taxes to compensate for the “lost” The zealots talk a lot about personal responsibility tax revenue that electric car owners don’t pay because and the impotence of government while they feather they don’t buy gasoline. They actually enable utilities’ their own nests, undermine government effectiveness greed. They’re going to have to choose between masters from within and destroy their own children’s and grandwhen Tesla starts selling those batteries that will power children’s planet. Don’t count on them doing anything homes off solar. They don’t see the millions saved in wear and tear on that people with conscience would do. You’re on your own. Ω the roads, since electric cars can’t be used for long trips. They just see the potential for wallets that aren’t being OPINION
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Edith Isidoro-Mills Farmer
I don’t know. It depends. If you’re talking about actually doing something that will help, it’s maybe about a D, and an A for humor, because they certainly have been colorful.
Laurie Haley Political volunteer
F. I think there’s so much that they are wasting time on, not focusing on our critical issues in Nevada. You know, square dancing—really?—when we have schools failing, children failing, horrible dropout rates? Their priorities are not the priorities of the people of Nevada.
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