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- Is it time to stop changing the clocks? [Las Vegas Sun]
- Prosecutors dismissed a grand jury indictment against Zaon Collins. [Las Vegas Sun]
- Seven people graduated from district court’s addiction treatment program. [RJ]
Zaon Collins case is a travesty. An innocent man is dead, and he is out. DA cannot do his job. Oh, and Raiders player gets a sweet deal from Wolfson, too. Wolfson, fuck you.
Collins will get a new car and be ballin' again by summer. Gotta' hand it to Chesnoff. When he shows up, Wolfson's people should wear brown pants; ya' know, so no one can tell . . .
It still goes to a preliminary hearing. It is not like case is over.
Yesterday, there were discussions about California. Too many of you have blinders on. There are two obvious examples of Nevada delivering propaganda instead of changes beneficial to residents.
1. Have you noticed the solar generating plant just past state line in California? Regardless what you think about "NV being friendlier to businesses than CA", the fact is that after comparing all costs (manufacturing, labor, property cost and taxes, CA corp. and state income taxes, employment taxes, etc., IT WAS BUILT IN CALIFORNIA INSTEAD OF NEVADA! It was built at a cost of $2.2 Billion within view of Nevada! Which state must actually be more business friendly? And along those lines, in Lucerne Valley (40 miles from Barstow) you will see fields of solar panels. More importantly, you will see solar being used on schools, grocery stores and even homes worth $50K to $100K. Again, it illustrates that CA doesn't just talk about solar, it makes it attractive to business and property owners.
2. All over Southern California, traffic lights are sensor based. You never have our daily experience of sitting at a traffic light for 3 to 4 minutes watching no traffic moving past you. Every time you legally wait for a traffic light to change, you are wasting gasoline. What's worse is that because of gas taxes, every minute that every car spends waiting for a timed traffic light to change, puts tax dollars in the state, county and city coffers where it will most likely be misspent, instead of improving our roads and streets. It's just my guess, but maybe that's also a contributing factor in the number of fatal accidents here. Who among us has never run a stale yellow (or red) light just so we would not have to wait needlessly for that light to change?
Both of these are complicated by the fact that Clark County is a patchwork of homes and land, some of which are in city limits while neighbors and property across the street are in Clark County territory. Which rules govern you? Do you vote for city council or county commissioner? This bureaucracy will likely NEVER change, because it benefits our city, county and state governments too much instead of taxpayers.
And I haven't even mentioned the 5th largest school district in the country, where according to yesterday's news, the board can't even draft a clear employment contract for the Superintendent.
Lastly, I do have a home in CA. It allows me to escape this judicial hellhole often. The only reason I'm here is family.
You may agree or disagree with what I have written, but when you pass that $2.2 Billion solar plant on Interstate 15 in CA, remember that if NV politicians and legislators didn't have a terminal case of cranial rectitus, it would have been built here, paying taxes here and employing people here.
The 2.2 billion solar plant was a political statement for renewable energy. It is not that effective and after construction, employs few. I don't know the details but as I recall CA gave significant tax credits and I suspect it is not generating ANY tax income. It is placed in the middle of no where because it is an eye sore that needed a lot of cheap land.
As to solar on roofs in CA. Look around you in Las Vegas. I see solar everywhere.
BTW – in my opinion the residential solar installations are gouging the homeowners. The provider owns the panels on a 10 to 20 yr lease. The efficiency of the panels decrease over time. Good news is that the cost of panels are coming down and in the future may actually pencil out economically.
@ 12:24 "Lastly, I do have a home in CA. It allows me to escape this judicial hellhole often. The only reason I'm here is family."
Note to 12:24 Please go back to CA and stay there.
Regarding your 2 points:
1. You're making a lot of inferences here. You have no idea why that plant was built in CA instead of NV. Do you have any sources or information about why they chose CA instead of NV? Because it all just seems like conjecture.
2. What do traffic lights have to do with Nevada "delivering propaganda"? Did Nevada represent to its residents that its traffic lights would work with a sensor system? It just seems like you don't like the current traffic-lights system, which is fair (and, frankly, it sounds like the sensors are a better idea), but I don't see how this supports your point.
@12:24: As noted above, nice try but No. Ivanpah was a political grift by the Governator (and don't waste time with calling him a Republican, he was merely a member of the Republican party) starting in 2010. He gave huge CA tax breaks and the Obama DOE gave 1.6 Billion to make some Californians happy (solyndra anyone). All the power was pre-purchased by 2 California power companies. It was NEVER getting built anywhere but california. We won't even discuss that it barely makes about 70% of the power they claimed and requires fossil fuels to be burned to accomplish that. Oh yeah, it employs about 90 people most of whom live in Nevada.
I won't waste time addressing roads (2 hr LA commute 2 times a day) 50K homeless in tent cities in the Garment district of LA, 10K in San Fran and multi billion dollar companies leaving for business and tax friendly states (Tesla to texas).
Nevada is far from great, and less so each year that we homologate more into california, but it is leaps and bounds ahead of the failed state to our west.
Solar is a proven disaster on every level, but here we are. Our grandchildren will judge us harshly — if there are any grandkids with all the plunging T-levels and rising barren hedonistic lifestyles. I wonder if T-levels were higher, we'd be moving to clean, beautiful nuclear?
Yes sure nuclear, so clean. Gonna order me some fresh Japanese sushi and European wild boar right away.
I used to live in Nevada and now live in California. California weather is great, there are a good number of high-paying jobs in California, and there are lots of industries here (so you meet people that do different things instead of everyone you know working in one of gaming, hospitality, construction, or real estate). These are the plusses. Everything else is a negative. I don't know anything about the solar plant, but the government here is so inept and anti-business that I can't imagine that solar plant's existence could be the result of good government decisions. Taxes here are unreal. Everything costs more here. The number of insane homeless people you need to walk by just to get to work is unreal. Courts here are a disaster. Think Clerk County courts are bad? They're heads and shoulders above LA Superior Court. Finally, I haven't found a sense of community here like there is in Nevada. I have surf buddies, work buddies, etc. But everything here feels like a loose and temporary connection to people, places, and things.
So look, California is great and has some great things going for it. But Nevada is better then California in lots of ways.
Sounds about right. I fled California for those reasons.
12:24-I have no problem conceding the point you make that Nevada really missed the boat on this solar issue,at least as to some key considerations. Fair enough.
But your much broader and larger point–that solar has been a howling success in California and Nevada should have followed that model and staked their own claim– demonstrates almost zero knowledge of what is occurring in Cal.,and in Texas, and other places, wherein people who converted over, and paid thousands in advance a few years back, are still not receiving the necessary services. The individual states, as well as the involvement of independents with their fingers in the solar pie, have made the situation an absolute nightmare.
I am generally in favor of the concept of solar energy, but I am mortified how it has been implemented, or not implemented, by certain states and providers, and you should be too.
I appreciate you provoking thought and discussion with this critical topic, but please read up on the complexities, and the real negatives, of the solar industry in Cal.thus far.
Again, I happen to agree with your point abut Nevada as to solar. But the statistics, "facts" and arguments you offer to support that opinion is where I have a serious problem. You are truly going to barbecue Nevada for mishandling the solar issue and hold up California as the guide they should have followed?
You're kidding, right?
California is a great state. Like many states it has major issues. At the end of the day it has great weather and ocean front property, not to mention diversity. The taxes suck. Regulations suck and California has likely gone to far with those, but it will always be a great state because of weather and location. People don’t move to North Dakota in droves for a reason.
Nevada needs to diversify and entice companies like Texas, Colorado and Idaho are doing. All these states will turn blue also because more education leads to people looking at the GQP as crazy. The average person doesn’t want crazy left or right associations. Ted Cruz almost lost to Beto. That tells you how bad Ted Cruz is or how states are turning blue. Hopefully not to blue.
Although I take issue with what both 12:24 and 1:44 say about solar in Nevada, I agree with 1:44's two prong assessment of what 12:24 wrote.
That being as follows.
First, we appreciate 12:24 raising a topic that generates true thought and discussion, as opposed to a lot of the silliness and personal attacks that sometimes permeate this blog.
But, secondly, despite the passion of 12:24 on this issue, 12:24 has a very basic and serious misunderstanding as to what is happening with solar in Cal. Posters such as 1:05,1:07 and 1:40 provide some of the basics of just how far off 12:24 is when 12:24 sings the praises of the Cal. solar industry.
I love me some long ass comments on a Friday, proceed.
Seriously, talk to your parents and grandparents about deepfakes, before it's too late.
https://www.cyberscoop.com/fbi-foreign-actors-deepfakes-cyber-influence-operations/
I love me some deepfakes.
I know what you are saying and I like your style.
Deepfakes rock!.
I just realized that trials in the age of Covid might benefit from deepfakes. Have someone put together deepfakes for the jury.
For example, a deepfake of Eric Echevarria's facial expressions just before Collins drove his Dodge Charger into him, and then Echevarria's facial expression when he glimpses his bloody and mangled body, and the horrific realization he will never see his kids again. At the risk of crossing the probative-prejudicial line, his deepfake could then look up at the jury and say "remember me in the deliberation room!"
How do I get on the kickbacks list with judges? I have money.
DETR, wait 8 months on claim. Get told wrong payment, weeks, and am waiting over a month since they contacted me about my claim. You people make THE bank of America look good when you foreclosed on my home 2009.