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Nevada: Budget Crisis

Thu, 06/26/2008 - 23:19

BUDGET CRISIS: Buckley slams Gibbons in follow-up speech

By Joseph K. Cooper

LAS VEGAS - In a bitingly critical response to his televised address Thursday, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (D-Las Vegas) portrayed Gov. Jim Gibbons as indecisive and uncooperative and suggested that any solution to the state's budget crisis will be reached by the legislature without the governor's help.

Buckley began her speech by praising Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio (R-Reno) whom she credited for working with her on a plan to meet a budget shortfall she estimated at more than $250 million.

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Thu, 06/26/2008 - 22:37

BUDGET CRISIS: Gov lists special session options

By Joseph K. Cooper

LAS VEGAS - In a televised address Thursday, Gov. Jim Gibbons challenged lawmakers to come up with a plan for dealing with a $275 million budget deficit without raising taxes, cutting education or reducing state services.

He would like this plan finished by Sunday.

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Fri, 06/20/2008 - 15:58

Gibbons delays start of special session

By Joseph K. Cooper

CARSON CITY - Gov. Jim Gibbons announced today that a special session of the Nevada legislature, originally scheduled to begin Monday, will instead begin Friday, June 27.

In announcing the delay, Gibbons said that new unemployment numbers and "much more new information" released today reinforces the need for a special session.

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Fri, 06/20/2008 - 15:47

Forum to give lawmakers tough economic projection

By Joseph K. Cooper

CARSON CITY - At the request of Gov. Jim Gibbons, the Economic Forum is meeting today to come up with a projection for the state's budget shortfall.  The forum is examining projections on a dozen different revenue sources from the legislative counsel bureau, the budget division and the various governmental agencies that oversee revenue collection.

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Wed, 06/18/2008 - 20:56

Buckley: Dems will have own plan to fix budget

By Joseph K. Cooper

LAS VEGAS - On her way into a rush meeting with the Democratic legislative caucus, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (D-Las Vegas) predicted Wednesday that Democratic legislators would produce their own plan to meet Nevada's budget shortfall and took issue with Gov. Jim Gibbons' call for a special session to address the problem.

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Wed, 06/18/2008 - 18:16

Raggio: I want to work with Democrats

By Joseph K. Cooper

LAS VEGAS - State Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio (R-Reno) called Wednesday for Democratic legislators to work with him to come up with a consensus proposal to fix the state's budget shortfall.

"I have asked the Democrats in both the Assembly and the Senate," said Raggio. "I want to work with them-we want to work with them to make this an apolitical session. It should be a short session. It should be dealing with how we deal with whatever the number is and not be a partisan fight."

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Wed, 06/18/2008 - 18:11

Gibbons promises latitude on agenda

By Joseph K. Cooper

LAS VEGAS - In the hectic scramble before the 25th Special Session of the Nevada state legislature convenes next week, Gov. Jim Gibbons' office is giving legislators a green light to come up with their own proposals to fix the state's budget shortfall.

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Wed, 06/11/2008 - 16:47

Gibbons calls emergency budget meeting

By Joseph K. Cooper

Expected attendees include Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie (D-Reno) in place of Speaker Barbara Buckley (D-Las Vegas), Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert (R-Reno), Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio (R-Reno), Senate Minority Leader Steven Horsford (D-Las Vegas), state Treasurer Kate Marshall, state Attorney General Catherine Cortez-Masto and Lieutenant Governor Brian Krolicki.

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