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The media is following Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley’s discussions with Nevadans about the direction our state should take . . . and how to get it there. Here are a few of the most recent comments. Check back often as we update.
Elko residents offer solutions
November 11, 2008
Elko Daily Free Press
ELKO - After addressing a state budget shortfall anticipated at $1 billion and news last week even more cuts will be required, members of rural Nevada's delegation to the state Legislature and Speaker of the Assembly Barbara Buckley met Monday with more than 100 area residents to discuss possible solutions to the funding problem.
The meeting is part of Buckley's statewide tour to discuss options for addressing the budget problem with residents from all parts of Nevada and was sponsored by Assemblyman John Carpenter. Sen. Dean Rhodes and Assemblyman Pete Goicoechea, who represents Eureka, Pershing and White Pine counties, also attended.
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Assembly speaker offers options for state’s fiscal crisis in town-hall meeting
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
By Karen Woodmansee
Nevada Appeal Staff Writer
“Nevada can do better” when it comes to handling the state’s financial crisis, said Nevada Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley at a town hall meeting in Carson City on Monday.
“We are all concerned about the mediocre level of government service and our fellow Nevadans,” she said. “We want to find long-term, bipartisan solutions. This is about what kind of state we want to be.”
Buckley said she would be going around the state holding town meetings to get input from residents on their priorities.
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Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley is holding town hall meetings around Nevada to discuss the future of the state with citizens.
Here is a report filed by KRNV Television, Channel 4, in Reno.
Mining tax increase touted
Attendees at Buckley's Reno forum say plan would aid state
By ED VOGEL
REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU
RENO -- Taxes on mining in Nevada should be increased as a way to avoid future cuts in state spending, at least five speakers told a legislator Monday night.
"It is inexcusable not to have any kind of real taxes on gold," retired Reno engineer Jerry Purdy said during a public meeting called by Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas.
Buckley is holding town meetings across the state to gather input from Nevada residents on how to bail the state out of its worst budget crisis in generations.
Because of continuing shortfalls in state tax revenue, Buckley told a crowd of 200 at the University of Nevada, Reno student union that cuts could be as high as 20 percent.
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Will Nevada fiscal overhaul ideas find traction?
John Barrette- Sunbelt Digital Media
Traction, taxation and spending play into Nevada's government finance overhaul picture as Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley tries to frame it in public forums this fall.
"When I talk to most people, they're concerned about our (state's) direction," said Buckley. The Las Vegas Democrat, questioned about taxes and term limits, parried with talk of overhaul ideas and looking a decade ahead. She also said, however, that there is a need "to weather this storm" of tough times and falling state revenues.
The Speaker acknowledged a series of forums she holds starting next week will at least touch on tax issues along with spending. She provided a verbal glimpse of her planned presentation, saying it will cite a recent National Tax Foundation study. That study put Nevada's state-and-local tax burden at 6.6 percent. Only Alaska's was lower.
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Assembly Speaker Buckley Hosts Town Hall To Discuss Economy
KTNV Channel 13 News, September 30, 2008
A lot of people may be concerned about the national economy, but some Nevadans are saying we have been suffering as a state a lot longer.
They sounded off Monday night at a town hall meeting hosted by Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley.
Buckley hosted the meeting to discuss her ideas to get the Nevada where it needs to be by the year 2020.
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ERIN NEFF: A vision for Nevada
Sep. 23, 2008
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley may as well have titled her community meetings on the state's financial structure "Nevada 2010."
Instead, the Democratic leader -- who will host a series of town hall meetings designed to find solutions to the state's "boom-bust" financial structure -- calls it "Nevada 2020" because she chooses to view Nevada in terms of what can be.
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Speaker Buckley’s earnestness
By Jon Ralston, Las Vegas
Sun Wed, Oct 1, 2008
Most of the two dozen folks who approached the microphone to tell Barbara Buckley how to fix the state’s finances proffered shopworn solutions: a state lottery or a much higher tax on gaming.
And yet as I sat in the Spring Valley High School auditorium Monday evening, listening to Buckley’s presentation about the state’s financial structure and watching the Assembly speaker be so solicitous with the parade of concerned citizens and clueless gadflies, I imagined this could be the beginning of something special.
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