Las Vegas Sun
Danny Thompson, executive secretary-treasurer of the 200,000-member Nevada AFL-CIO, says the Legislature exhausted all its cost-cutting options this session and has no choice but to reform the state’s tax structure in 2011. Thompson said the state AFL-CIO was exploring the option of putting the idea of a gross-receipts business tax to voters by sponsoring a ballot initiative.
The battle over two ballot measures dealing with the city’s redevelopment authority and a new city hall went the Nevada Supreme Court Tuesday. City officials have refused to place the measures on the ballot because they claim they are unconstitutional. The Culinary Union, sponsor of the two initiatives, filed suit arguing that the city does not have the authority to hold the measures off the ballot. The court is expected to rule by April 22.