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- Bret Whipple admits to failing to safeguard client accounts in deal with State Bar of Nevada. [RJ]
- Builders and affordable housing advocates clash over bills. [TNI]
- The Raiders and the Golden Knights don’t want to be subject to a Live Entertainment Tax. [TNI; Nevada Current]
- AB440 would allow some first time offenders to avoid jail. [Las Vegas Sun]
The Raiders took $750,000.00 in public funds for their stadium. I don't want to hear one fucking word from them, EVER, about taxes.
Were given. Nothing was taken. Raiders still and forever will suck.
Agree with 10:44. No reason to exempt an entertainment enterprise from the entertainment tax that applies to everyone else. Is there a politician backing this?
My parents always hated the Raiders due to the 1967 "cheap shot" Ben Davidson laid on Joe Namath. Davidson was not even penalized. These days, Davidson would have been penalized, and probably ejected or suspended.
When did Whipple become a "high profile" lawyer?
He is low level high profile. I always thought his family was loaded, being to his family's ranch in Alamo. He is a decent man, but I do not agree with what he did. I hope things turn around for him. I am also sorry to his victims what they wen through.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/housing/las-vegas-home-prices-hit-record-high-again-2323068/
Las Vegas housing market hits record high again – bolstered by record low interest rates, limited supply, and steady demand… What happens when the Dems quit kicking the can down the road and the mountain of looming foreclosures finally hits? 10 million homeowners nationwide are delinquent on their mortgage with more than 2 million 90+ days past due. Here comes the 2010 housing crisis all over again.
My practice is about 50% bankruptcy and I'm concerned for those who are able to pay their mortgage but choose not to and cannot show that they were financially impacted by this. When they ultimately apply for a loan modification, will they be able to legitimately explain the "hardship" that hit them which caused them to not be able to pay their mortgage? If they're rejected for a loan mod, how exactly are they going to do a Chapter 13 plan that pays their current mortgage and cures their arrears over a 60 month plan? They won't. It'll go to foreclosure.
For those who have actually had a hardship, once they recover, presuming their home hasn't been foreclosed on yet, they will hopefully qualify for a loan modification and re-amortize everything over 40 years and get a deferred non-interest bearing principal portion (a "keep the family in the house, but not necessarily a good financial decision" modification.)
if another housing crisis does come about, I am sure that the $1.3 trillion tax cut where the top 1% got richer, and there was virtually no real benefit to the rest of America will have nothing to do with it, or of course the out-of-control pandemic we are still in where over 400K Americans are dead because the prior administration decided to play it down and politicize science. Oh, and how did the 2010 crisis occur again…. hint, it wasn't the "Dems kicking the can down the road". No my friend, what everything above had in common started with the letter "R". But nice try.
3:21 is right. Everyone conveniently forgets McCain running for president and saying how we needed to de-regulate medical insurance the same way we de-regulated wall street and the real estate market. And then the market crashed and that sound bite went away. This is on the Rs, not the Ds.
3:21 & 3:39, 11:34 here… how conveniently YOU forget President Clinton's critical role in the deregulation of Wall Street and the lending/mortgage industry. Go read the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report — granted it is not brief, but the report offers an in-depth look at the actors which helped set off the whole thing. That's not to say Republicans didn't share some fault (see President Bush's push for American home ownership through the American Dream Downpayment Act); however, the initial deregulation by the Clinton administration certainly set the country down a path from which it was never able to recover.
@3:21
You have picked up the DNC mostly false tag line. If you really want truth, prepare a tax return for couple with 2 kids, mortgage, in the year before and in the year after the tax cut, using the same income for both years.
On COVID, go back and watch the early Trump conferences where the predicted possible deaths were over a million and Trump preemptively purchased all of the potentially available vaccines before any other country, and funded vaccine development. Illustrating the problem with adopting someone else's tag line; you loose sight of facts and stop using your own reasoning abilities.
Outside of the large master planned communities, there is no such thing as planning in southern Nevada. Government leaders are tied to development interests, and outside of apartments and expensive townhomes, they have no interest in building affordable housing.
Small lots and narrow streets don’t work well without decent public transportation. Fast growing communities with a lot of small lot houses, like Inspirada out in Henderson, are several miles away from the nearest RTC bus stop. I guess that we don’t want to become a socialist hellscape like Utah, with its liberal values, great higher education system and its excellent public train and trolley system. With such an obviously tax and spend liberal regime governing the state, Utah probably provides abortions on demand at all of their public schools.
On Affordable Housing
Yes, there is a need. But some of the high density new housing being built right now already look like future slums. Three stories on a postage stamp lot, driveway's too short to park a pickup truck, narrow streets that are not dedicated and will bankrupt the HOA in the future when they need repaving, and houses so close together that you can shake hands with your neighbor just by opening a window.
If anything, planning departments have already got their head up their ass.
Man, whipple has more chins than a chinese phonebook
Anonymous needs to be cancelled for that one. P.S. Google the Pekin, Illinois Chinks. How great is that!
Has anyone ever encountered a situation where they need to talk to someone who speaks a foreign language — a less common one — just for a few minutes? Is there a service that can help with this, or does everyone charge 30- or 60-minute minimums? I'm not even sure this person will answer the phone, so I can't be charged for an hour of interpreter time every time I reach out to try to talk to them.
There are several services. Google "telephone interpreter." Usually charge by the minute.
They suck and charge a lot. Try and find an employee for the language you need. We were suckered into a translation service, Google translate probably provides a better service.
I watched 30 min of cross of the prosecution use of force expert by Chauvin's attorney and am very, very impressed. If the whole trial is going that way, it's going to be an acquittal. If nothing else, trial attorneys would benefit from watching parts of the trial. My respect to the defense bar.
I watched a nine minute video of a cop commit murder. So did all the jurors, going to be about a 5 minute deliberation before a bunch of guilty verdicts.
Move to strike 7:09 for cause. 😉
7:09 AM is naive. Worst case scenario for Chauvin is manslaugter. He will probably acquitted. The Defense will put George Floyd on trial. The conservative media universe will happily assist. Floyd will be found implicitly guilty in death. Chauvin will avoid full accountability for the murder.
It is incomprehensible that Chauvin would get off. And yet if your read the R/J this morning you realize that citizens left to review law enforcement will let them off 99 times out of 100 no matter the evidence or egregiousness of the conduct.
I think it would be important for everyone to review the three charges that Chauvin is being charged with: 2nd degree murder, 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter. I believe the state will have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Chauvin intended to murder Floyd. It seems to me that they will not be able to show that as Chauvin was using a police tactic when he put his knee on his neck. Thus, they cannot prove second degree murder. 3rd degree the state will have to show that his actions posed a danger to others while he put his knee on his neck. No evidence of that. I think manslaughter is the likely result based on the facts of the case.