Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
[Beuerlein] will graduate this summer
I doubt it. The graduation rate for jocks is *significantly* lower than that of non-jocks.
Beuerlein is majoring in "sport management and physical education". Pre-MLB. Jockology. Not serious. The program is so ridiculous that even Smatrick can't defend it. He's going to discontinue it.
UNLV is not supposed to be a MLB farm team. Why do taxpayers continue to give scholarships to jocks who couldn't care less about education? Why do we continue to fund junk departments which give jocks academic cover? This "triumph over adversity" story must have planted by UNLV's Sport Management faculty as a way to further politicize the department and save their jobs.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Motorcyclist Killed By CCSD Bus
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Another victim of public education.
Don Gustavson (R-Sparks) is the only pro-freedom guy in Carson City. Every session he sponsors a motorcycle helmet choice bill. It never gets out of committee. He can't even get votes from legislators who identify themselves as "pro-choice".
Don is resigning his Assembly seat to run for state Senate. He deserves our support.
Another victim of public education.
Don Gustavson (R-Sparks) is the only pro-freedom guy in Carson City. Every session he sponsors a motorcycle helmet choice bill. It never gets out of committee. He can't even get votes from legislators who identify themselves as "pro-choice".
Don is resigning his Assembly seat to run for state Senate. He deserves our support.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Millenium Scholarships: Bad For Nevada
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
The [Millenium] program now costs $25 million a year, but that total is increasing by about $1 million per year.
What is this $25M++/yr taxpayer burden to fund Millenium Scholarships? When the UNV was "sold" to a skeptical voting public, that annual expenditure wasn't part of the deal. Neither was the $14M/yr the state gives to fund NCAA sports, nor the hundreds of millions we spend each year on NSHE.
The [Millenium] program now costs $25 million a year, but that total is increasing by about $1 million per year.
What is this $25M++/yr taxpayer burden to fund Millenium Scholarships? When the UNV was "sold" to a skeptical voting public, that annual expenditure wasn't part of the deal. Neither was the $14M/yr the state gives to fund NCAA sports, nor the hundreds of millions we spend each year on NSHE.
Too Much Nevada Government
Originally posted in a LVRJ forum
Lawyer Polsenberg said It was a clever legislator's trick to pass the spending side ... and then be forced to vote on whether to pass the revenue
It's not "clever". Under NSC Article 9 §2 it's the law.
The crooked politicians allocate the first 115 days of the legislative session to impose upon us as much government as they can think of. More K-12. More football scholarships. More senior, mental health, and employment training programs.
More retirement benefits for state employees.
Pile it on.
When they add it all up .. SURPRSE! Government in the next biennium needs to be 10% larger than it already is. For FY '12/'13 the Republicrats are hinting 20% (~$8.2B)! A small government legislator would vote NAY on all government spending except that which is absolutely, constitutionally required. The three branches, 18 public schools, three UNR applied science departments, a few other small things, and that's it. ~$200M.
In correct sequence, next starts the acrimonious five day debate over how to pay for it. That typically means higher business and sales taxes, though it would be perfectly legitimate for legislators to fund BIG government through user fees. For instance, $10,000 per K-12 student. $800 per UNLV credit. That sort of thing. A small government legislator would have little problem voting YEA to such "new" taxes. That is, "no" on the spending, "yes" on the taxes.
Seems like every session you get a few "Conservatives" who vote YEA on the spending and NAY on the funding mechanism. As if BIG government will somehow pay for itself. Of course lets them demagogue I SUPPORT public education! and No new taxes!
That's clever like a thief.
Lawyer Polsenberg said It was a clever legislator's trick to pass the spending side ... and then be forced to vote on whether to pass the revenue
It's not "clever". Under NSC Article 9 §2 it's the law.
The crooked politicians allocate the first 115 days of the legislative session to impose upon us as much government as they can think of. More K-12. More football scholarships. More senior, mental health, and employment training programs.
More retirement benefits for state employees.
Pile it on.
When they add it all up .. SURPRSE! Government in the next biennium needs to be 10% larger than it already is. For FY '12/'13 the Republicrats are hinting 20% (~$8.2B)! A small government legislator would vote NAY on all government spending except that which is absolutely, constitutionally required. The three branches, 18 public schools, three UNR applied science departments, a few other small things, and that's it. ~$200M.
In correct sequence, next starts the acrimonious five day debate over how to pay for it. That typically means higher business and sales taxes, though it would be perfectly legitimate for legislators to fund BIG government through user fees. For instance, $10,000 per K-12 student. $800 per UNLV credit. That sort of thing. A small government legislator would have little problem voting YEA to such "new" taxes. That is, "no" on the spending, "yes" on the taxes.
Seems like every session you get a few "Conservatives" who vote YEA on the spending and NAY on the funding mechanism. As if BIG government will somehow pay for itself. Of course lets them demagogue I SUPPORT public education! and No new taxes!
That's clever like a thief.
Hannibal Sandoval
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Hannibal Sandoval lawyered That is not raising taxes
Let's be fair to the RINO. An AG cannot raise taxes. But it is also true that Sandoval's role in Guinn's tax hike cannot be dismissed as simply a lawyer reresenting his client.
The AG is supposed to provide a legal opinion. Sandoval probably told Guinn "you have a good case".
Strike 1.
The AG must take legal action when the Governor so directs. He can also take legal action INDEPENDENT of the Governor. The NSC is silent about tie-breaks. That is, when the Governor wants to sue and the AG doesn't.
Constutional issues aside, Sandoval could have simply refused to comply. The way that Cortez-Masto has refused to participate in Fibbons' Obamacare lawsuit.
Strike 2.
Sandoval is a close political ally of archetype RINO Raggio. He even works at the same politically connected, BIG government law firm.
STRIKE THREE!
Hannibal Sandoval lawyered That is not raising taxes
Let's be fair to the RINO. An AG cannot raise taxes. But it is also true that Sandoval's role in Guinn's tax hike cannot be dismissed as simply a lawyer reresenting his client.
The AG is supposed to provide a legal opinion. Sandoval probably told Guinn "you have a good case".
Strike 1.
The AG must take legal action when the Governor so directs. He can also take legal action INDEPENDENT of the Governor. The NSC is silent about tie-breaks. That is, when the Governor wants to sue and the AG doesn't.
Constutional issues aside, Sandoval could have simply refused to comply. The way that Cortez-Masto has refused to participate in Fibbons' Obamacare lawsuit.
Strike 2.
Sandoval is a close political ally of archetype RINO Raggio. He even works at the same politically connected, BIG government law firm.
STRIKE THREE!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Bureaucrats Bully High School Kids
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
This article is a synopsis of everything that's wrong with this state.
This article is a synopsis of everything that's wrong with this state.
- The NV Chief Justice goes on record favoring convictions of youthful "offenders" presumed to be innocent. More judicial misconduct.
- High school students -- who are coerced into school to begin with -- are driven into videoconference (police detention) rooms like criminal suspects to get lectured about some new BIG government law. The schools are just government re-education camps.
- Some government "woman" lawyer is permitted to *bully* innocent school boys with threats like "we'll find you!" More LGBT/Women's rights activism.
- While the private sector is *shrinking* an entirely new "cyberbullying" (a non-crime crime) legal racket is *forming*. More billable hours for lobbyists and lawyers.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Public Education CANNOT Be Reformed
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
You people who argue for a 9/12 month school year, new Board members, an interim Superintendent, a teacher/student Bill of Rights, higher/lower academic standards, etc just don't get it. Public education is a CATASTROPHE and *cannot* be reformed.
The private sector is perfectly capable of providing enough classrooms, bandwidth, mobile tutors, etc to satisfy the real demand for primary/secondary/higher education. For all tastes, pricepoints, and degrees of quality.
What's this blather about 9 months vs year-round (5 tracks)? School "years" should be variable and tracks multitudinous. Like the students the schools are supposed to serve.
1 day/wk schools. 1 hr/night schools. $10,000/yr schools. $10/wk schools. Sports schools. Drama schools. Science schools. How about a school which guarantees your child admission to an IVY or your money back! And on and on.
This is all so obvious. The only reason we haven't moved to this paradyne *decades* ago is because the Republicrats have HUGE financial stakes in continuing the status quo.
No more "one size fits all" operating hours and curriculum. No more consultants, union contracts, and vapid pedagogies.
No more political teacher performance evaluations. Everyone will know who are the good teachers are. They'll be the ones with wait lists.
No more political school performance evalutions. Everyone will know which schools are good. They'll be the ones which are expanding.
No more bond measures, court test cases and rigged, riotous (draft) board meetings.
You people who argue for a 9/12 month school year, new Board members, an interim Superintendent, a teacher/student Bill of Rights, higher/lower academic standards, etc just don't get it. Public education is a CATASTROPHE and *cannot* be reformed.
The private sector is perfectly capable of providing enough classrooms, bandwidth, mobile tutors, etc to satisfy the real demand for primary/secondary/higher education. For all tastes, pricepoints, and degrees of quality.
What's this blather about 9 months vs year-round (5 tracks)? School "years" should be variable and tracks multitudinous. Like the students the schools are supposed to serve.
1 day/wk schools. 1 hr/night schools. $10,000/yr schools. $10/wk schools. Sports schools. Drama schools. Science schools. How about a school which guarantees your child admission to an IVY or your money back! And on and on.
This is all so obvious. The only reason we haven't moved to this paradyne *decades* ago is because the Republicrats have HUGE financial stakes in continuing the status quo.
No more "one size fits all" operating hours and curriculum. No more consultants, union contracts, and vapid pedagogies.
No more political teacher performance evaluations. Everyone will know who are the good teachers are. They'll be the ones with wait lists.
No more political school performance evalutions. Everyone will know which schools are good. They'll be the ones which are expanding.
No more bond measures, court test cases and rigged, riotous (draft) board meetings.
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