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Entries from March 2015

How Do Unions Help Nevadans? – Bonus Features

March 29th, 2015 · 1 Comment

Conservatives and union activists rarely agree on things, but they do share this common mistake – they conflate public employee unions with public employees generally.  Both are very wrong to do so. That’s why, as a guy who has spent most of his adult lifetime working for the government, I have no problem calling out […]

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Blueprints and Plans – Bonus Features

March 14th, 2015 · Comments Off on Blueprints and Plans – Bonus Features

My latest at the RGJ is up, about the ridiculous and somewhat insulting emptiness of the Nevada Democratic Caucus’ recently published campaign flier/legislative agenda.  The thing about emptiness is that there’s only so much you can say, which makes this a shorter post. (You have to click through, though, and check out the comments.  There’s […]

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