On Tuesday, Gibbons told the Fallon Rotary Club that the Southern Nevada Water Authority, which has proposed a multibillion-dollar pipeline to eastern Nevada to supply Las Vegas with a backup source of drinking water, should instead build a desalination plant in California and trade that plant's water for some of California's allocation of the Colorado River, according to the Lahontan Valley News.

The world has just turned upside down...although the SNWA pipeline plan reeks of ecological disaster by sucking water from eastern Nevada auquifers, little did I suspect that a politician might actually propose a plan that seems to have merit.

The Research 2000 Nevada Poll was conducted from November 16 through November
19, 2007 and shows Governor Gibbons's numbers have risen from 30 percent in April 2007 to 40 percent while Senator Reid's went from 48 percent in May 2006 to 39 percent

Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is now telling many state agencies to plan for budget cuts of up to 8 percent. This is up from Gibbon's initial request for agencies to make 5 percent cuts. These cuts could reduce spending by as much as $282 million.

Budget Director Andrew Clinger sent a memo saying the increase in reduction plans is needed because of revenue shortfalls.

Any chance the shortfall is about the same amount the "green tax" mistake is costing the state of Nevada? At least Little California--oops, Nevada--isn't facing the ten percent that California Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has asked for in his state.

The Sun has reported that Regents are joining Chancellor Jim Rogers in rejecting budget cuts.

"A week after Gov. Jim Gibbons got a letter from higher education Chancellor Jim Rogers rejecting Gibbons' request to plan for 5 percent budget cuts, some regents got into the act.

Regents Bret Whipple and Stavros Anthony sent a message Oct. 29 telling Gibbons they "were unaware of -- and disappointed by -- the tone and content" of Rogers' letter.

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Anthony, who's planning to run for Las Vegas City Council, said he didn't have enough information to give an opinion on Gibbons' suggestion. He said the point of his and Whipple's letter "wasn't to slam anybody," but to ensure state and higher education leaders continued communicating.

Regent Steve Sisolak said although Anthony and Whipple are entitled to an opinion, 'I disagree with them very strongly. I think the chancellor presented a well-thought-out, pointed, direct letter to the governor.''

As I pointed out in an earlier posting, complete with excerpts, Rogers' letter was a rambling, often confused, and grammatically deficient letter. One would have hoped that someone in Rogers' position would have reviewed his letter before sending it to the Governor, but apparently he is so convinced of his intellect that he doesn't need to proofread. Therefore, I also have to wonder if Sisolek actually read the letter before praising it. It would also be nice if newspaper headlines actually reflected the content of the stories within, since the headline from the Sun suggests the Regents support Rogers, but the article has two Regents separating themselves from Rogers' letter. But of course, I am simply asking too much of publicly educated Regents, educators, politicians, reporters, and other Nevada citizens to write what they mean, when they barely teach writing and critical thinking in Nevada schools.

The guest list appears to be:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert, Clark County Commission Chair Rory Reid, Washoe County Commission Chair Bob Larkin, Elko County Commission Chair John Ellison, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon, Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson, Sparks Mayor Geno Martini, and Chancellor Jim Rogers.

As to that southern Nevada mutiny over the Governor's budget plan, Governor tells Chancellor, local officials to "face reality"

Gov. Jim Gibbons spent the last week of September on vacation in Cabo San Lucas.

Now he is attending a Republican Governor's Association forum in Oahu, Hawaii and will return Sunday morning.

Well...did he at least party with Sammy Hagar while in Cabo? Ah, TEQUILLA! So, did Warren Trepp pay for this vacation or was Gibbons interviewing future undocumented housekeepers?

NV Governor Gibbons, who dodged some of the scandal fallout from his garage escapade--enough to win the election--when the reported video tape didn't show him where Chrissy Mazzeo claimed, is once again having to rely on what the technology evidence does or does not show as one computer expert claims that the e-mail submitted in a civil law suit by Dennis Montgomery against his former company eTreppid has been altered.

In a Las Vegas Sun article, "Expert claims e-mail in Nev. governor corruption case altered," an expert has disputed the authenticity of an e-mail submitted to a Reno court as evidence that Gov. Jim Gibbons was bribed by eTreppid Technologies.

The sentence, "We need to take care of him like we discussed," supposedly about Gibbons, was cited by Montgomery in the suit, but Jonathan Karcher, a forensic computer expert, believes the sentence was added.

I have nothing to say, just in case someone tries to add words to show that I have been bribed--which according to my bank statement hasn't happened, but sure would be appreciated.

A $1 billion plan to cover part of the projected $5 billion shortfall in funding for highway projects was signed into law by Governor Jim Gibbons.

The bill takes $20 million annually from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and part of the existing rental car tax and property tax revenues for capital projects in Washoe and Clark Counties.

The money should finance $1 billion in bonds for improvements to Interstate 15 and U.S. 95 in the Las Vegas area and Interstate 80 in the Reno area.