Editorial: Northern Nevada doesn’t get it
Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the March 2, 2014, Las Vegas Sun.
For several years, Southern Nevada lawmakers have complained about how our region has been slighted by state government and the Legislature, pointing to how taxpayer money and state resources have habitually been diverted north. Those complaints have solicited little more than shrugs or blanket denials from lawmakers from the rest of the state.
But Northern Nevada officials now appear to be changing their tune, at least slightly. In a recent series of reports by KSNV Channel 3 that examined the disparity in higher education funding between North and South, officials from Northern Nevada, without exactly admitting the problem, said things had changed to make funding more fair. They blame the late state Sen. Bill Raggio, R-Reno, for any disparity.
Their message was as clear as it was stunning: If there was a problem, it has been fixed, and don’t blame us, blame Bill Raggio.
Seriously? Blame Raggio? Everything is fixed?
They still don’t get it.
Northern Nevada doesn’t get it? Southern Nevada has given us the great wizard Dirty Harry Reid… Mr. Shrugs and denials oh and finger pointing and the purest act of telling falsehoods.