Brian Fadie

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• Posted Executive Director Position Posting to ProgressNow Nevada
  Please see below for the job description and application information for the ProgressNow Nevada and ProgressNow Nevada Action Executive Director position. PNN & PNNA ED Job Description by progressnownevada...
• Posted Letter Supporting Background Checks Sent to All Nevada Legislators and DC Delegation to ProgressNow Nevada
  The following letter was mailed today to all 63 Nevada legislators, the governor and the six members of the DC delegation. It is signed by organizations representing thousands of everyday Nevadans and it notes among other things that recent polls...
• Posted PRESS RELEASE: Rep. Heck Agrees With Extreme Stance on Guns...Again to ProgressNow Nevada
  Thinks there should be open access to U.S. military grade weaponry LAS VEGAS - Yesterday during a constituent town hall Congressman Joe Heck agreed with an audience member who suggested everyone in America should be able to arm themselves at...
• Posted My Trip to the Shooting Range with Assemblywoman Michele Fiore to ProgressNow Nevada
    On the night of the Newtown school shooting I went on Ralston Reports to talk about gun violence prevention and a bill proposed by Assemblywoman Michele Fiore that would allow concealed weapon permit holders to carry guns onto college...
• Posted A special note to all ProgressNow Nevada members to ProgressNow Nevada
  The message below comes from ProgressNow Nevada founder Erin Neff.     It's been an amazing ride here at ProgressNow Nevada for the past three years. I've been honored to watch this organization grow from 500 to tens of thousands...
• Posted Want to Get Involved? Here's How. to ProgressNow Nevada
  This is it. The election is only days away. Early voting has started and our values are on the line at the ballot box. This will be a close election. Every vote is important and can make the difference. That's...
• Posted Up for some fun? to ProgressNow Nevada
  Look! It's a bird! It's a plane!It's ProgressNow Nevada once again taking an important message right to Nevadans as they prepare to decide who will best represent them in Washington, D.C.On Saturday, we'll fly an airplane banner around the big...
• Posted Nevada Public Lands Video Raffle to ProgressNow Nevada
  This Saturday, September 29th is National Public Lands Day and to celebrate we're holding a raffle!A little while back we produced a short video designed to explain in plain English how the public lands system works in Nevada.It's done in...
• Posted What Mitt Romney's policies would mean for Nevada to ProgressNow Nevada
  A new report by the Center for American Progress Action Fund gives more specifics about Mitt Romney's policies than even the Romney campaign. Specifically, they looked at what his policy proposals would mean for Nevadans. It's a very readable 15...
• Posted New Report: Retiring Dirty Coal Plant Would Save Millions to ProgressNow Nevada
  A new report released by the Sierra Club found that retiring NV Energy's 50-year old Reid Gardner coal plant in Moapa, NV would save Nevadans $59 million if it were closed in 2013 instead of 2023. These savings would be...
• Posted Tule Springs + President Obama = Jobs for Nevada to ProgressNow Nevada
  Conventional wisdom is Las Vegas is a young city that only came into its prime in the late 20th Century. That's not entirely true. Thousands of years ago the Vegas Valley area had all kinds of activity as pre-historic creatures...
• Posted Yeah, why not go to Station Casinos? to ProgressNow Nevada
  You may have seen the TV ads running the last few months between Station Casinos and the Culinary Union and wondered what the heck is going on.The Culinary Union is trying to organize the workers at Station Casinos so they...
• Posted Mitt Romney doesn't know the purpose of public lands to ProgressNow Nevada
  When asked if he supported transfering some of the public land managed by the United States government back to the state of Nevada Mitt Romney told the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial board "I don't know why the government owns so much...
• Posted Occupy Congress Day 2 Video and Pictures to ProgressNow Nevada
  Day 2 of Occupy Congress included thousands of the 99% breaking up into groups and using different routes to march through the city to get to K Street, the lobbyist epicenter of Washington D.C. Here's video from the occupying of...
• Posted Day 1 of Occupy Congress: Photo Gallery to ProgressNow Nevada
  Check out pictures from Day 1 of the Occupy Congress actions taking place this week. A group of Nevadans spent over six hours sitting in the offices of Senator Heller and Representative Heck, but neither one could find five minutes...
• Posted Guest Post: Why I'm at #99inDC to ProgressNow Nevada
  I have always been very involved in politics, government, and take care to be an informed voter who is aware of what the policies are that shape my life (especially those that involve our ability to change in a changing...
• Posted Take Back The Capitol happening this week! to ProgressNow Nevada
  Check back here all week for updates as the 99% descend by the thousands on Washington D.C. to take back the People's House. More information on the actions taking place this week can be found here: http://www.99indc.org...
• Posted The End of the Iraq War to ProgressNow Nevada
  President Obama is keeping his promise to end the Iraq War -- he's bringing our troops home and allowing the Iraqi people to take charge of their own destiny. CNN coverage Much like almost the entire war itself, the troop...
• Posted New York Times stands against out-of-state concealed guns to ProgressNow Nevada
  The editorial staff of the New York Times gets it: the federal government should not be forcing Nevadans to honor concealed weapons laws from other states. In an editorial, the NYT joins the Mayors Against Illegal Guns (which includes Michael...
• Posted See latest updates from tent city in Carson City to ProgressNow Nevada
  Students and Nevadans from across the state have created a tent city on the lawn of the capitol building where they're on a three day, around-the-clock lobbying effort. It's something that has never been done in Carson City history. Click...
• Posted Now Posted: April 18 is Next Tax Commission Meeting to ProgressNow Nevada
  Note the location of the meeting is NOT in the Legislative Building, but instead at the Department of Health (4150 Technology Way #303, Carson City, NV). AND NOTE the teleconference will be at the Department of Welfare & Supportive Services...
• Posted Mid-Week Nevada Blog Round-Up to ProgressNow Nevada
  The best of the Nevada progressive blogs from the past week: Desert Beacon puts on its Mythbusters hat and does a thunderous takedown of the idea that Social Security is broke. Nevada Progressive has pictures and a write-up from a...
• Posted Right-wingers love America so much they want to keep people from voting to ProgressNow Nevada
  In yet another example of the Great Right-Wing Hypocrisy, a bill has been introduced in the state Assembly by Republican Crescent Hardy that would end the early voting period in Nevada. Yes, the same people who love the Constitution and...
• Posted Sharron Angle rises from political dead....again to ProgressNow Nevada
  Crazy Angle announced yesterday that she'll be running for Nevada's second congressional district in 2012, thus giving the people of Nevada another chance to reject her particular brand of ignorance and insanity. Steve Sebelius has a good write-up about her...
• Posted John McCain sold me out! to ProgressNow Nevada
  Like many political junkies I'm on a number of email lists for candidates and organizations from across the political spectrum. And the weird thing is I actually pay attention to them, so I notice when something new or different shows...
• Posted Brian Sandoval's fictional "no new taxes" mandate is officially over to ProgressNow Nevada
  A new poll out today verifies what many already knew: Brian Sandoval's election was never a mandate for "no new taxes." The poll - conducted by a GOP operation and funded by the decidedly not-lefty Nevada Retail Association - showed...
• Posted NV Blog Roundup: State of the State to ProgressNow Nevada
  Some different takes about the state of the state from Nevada bloggers: PLAN: State of the State: Building community versus no-tax calamity The Sausage Factory: Nevada's pathetic state The Nevada View: Nevada: Renewable Energy Capital of the World! Nevada Progressive:...
• Posted Nevada businesses agree we need a balanced approach to the budget to ProgressNow Nevada
  The headline reads "Budget Woes Divide Nevadans." Left out is the subhead: "And increasing revenue is winning." A RJ survey of Nevada businesses found that 49.7% favor some form of spending cuts AND revenue increases to solve the budget gap,...
• Posted Brian Sandoval: Screw you Nevada, I've got a career to think about to ProgressNow Nevada
  Before the election there was some talk among left leaning people in this state that Brian Sandoval wouldn't be that bad of a governor because "he's a moderate at heart." It took him approximately 50 minutes to smash that notion...
• Posted NPRI: Let's train 20th Century workers for a 21st Century economy to ProgressNow Nevada
  Today NPRI released their ideas for what do about the state's budget shortfall. One of their main suggestions: let's train students for a 20th Century job market. From the report: "Students who do not directly bear most of the cost...