Kenny Guinn served two terms and has been our most popular Republican governor of the modern era, and probably second only to the late, great Mike O'Callahan among governors overall.
Like O'Callahan, Guinn had the fortitude and courage to recognize that Nevada had to take steps to address chronic underfunding of essential services, education and other pressing needs.
We need more public servants like him - in the Governor's Mansion and the Legislature.

Wait, wouldn't 4.3 million visitors be UP from 3.9 million in July '07? Maybe I'm just reading this wrong.

MGM is a power to be reckoned with in political and financial circles locally and nationally, but even the Titans of Industry couldn't overcome the fact that building thousands of homes at the California state line would be terrible, sprawling growth.
The thousands of commuters would contribute to air pollution while simultaneously destroying land specifically set aside for the preservation of threatened wildlife.
Cancelling the project is one more indication that we must rethink the design fundamentals of dumb, energy-wasteful ex-urbs.
Satellite communities miles from urban centers waste land, energy and air quality.
No amount of offshore drilling or tax breaks for the petrochemical industry can overcome the fact that oil and its products will become ever more expensive; long commutes didn't make sense three years ago, and they really, really don't make sense today. Such misguided development efforts are particularly silly when you look around Las Vegas' urban center and see huge tracts of land begging for infill development.

Recession is a horrible way to rein in out-of-control growth. We could have done it - we could still do it - in a way that blunts the impact on working men and women and families of the region. But what we can't do is allow shortsighted developers and their municipal enablers to control government policies.
Today, we have the worst of all possible worlds - a brutal end to the "endless" growth promised by the SNWA and the developers, and we still have to deal with the negative consequences created by years of irresponsible public policy that put profit over people.

PLAN never engaged in partisan activity. It was a point of pride that we registered Republicans, Democrats, other parties and nonpartisans. We - and by that I mean both a few staffers and a lot of volunteers - worked those tables because we believe in the positive impact that these new citizens will have on our community, a promise of civic engagement that must include voting.
This was really about the fact that PLAN and other groups were passing out completely legal, Spanish-language registration forms.
The anti-immigrant, nativist folks can celebrate their nasty little victory, but those that live, work and engage in our civic life will continue to register citizens to vote, and we will vote, and we will change the bureaucracy that puts bigotry above community.