By Casey Coffman A recent Tribune op-ed by Thomas Mitchell, Question 6 Would Cost Money and Provide No Benefits, contains a lot of inaccurate or misleading information from the Heartland Institute—a group that has close ties to fossil fuel interests. Heartland continues to perpetuate well-worn myths about renewable energy that have not resembled reality for a very long … [Read more...]
Gaming Control Board declines release of Laxalt recording
The Gaming Control Board has refused to release to Battle Born Media newspapers an audio recording surreptitiously made by Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett of a conversation with Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt concerning litigation involving Las Vegas Sands executive Sheldon Adelson, saying the recording is not a public record under state law. The existence of the … [Read more...]
Proposed environmental bills would kill jobs
With delusions of saving the planet from catastrophic warming, a Las Vegas assemblyman is offering up a futile gesture in the form of a bill to ban fracking in Nevada. According to media accounts Democratic Assemblyman Justin Watkins has stated fracking causes earthquakes, contaminates water, pollutes the air and basically creates an eyesore. His Assembly Bill 159 would … [Read more...]