---Emphasis on job growth late last year, message that things turning around
----Push for online poker with other states (I knew that GCB bill was his) -- wants bill in first month
----$135 million in what he will call "new investment" in K-12: Expansion of all-day K, first into at-risk schools, maybe more later, but also will push school choice, kids reading by third grade, invest in Teach for America, another pilot program (Jobs for America's Graduates), ELL investment
---Appropriation to boost Millennium Scholarship
---Cut MBT for more businesses
---Medicaid co-pays and emphasize may opt-out of expansion in future
---Restore merit pay for state employees next year, cut furlough days in half sooner
----Restructure half-billion dollars in debt to feds for unemployment insurance
----Vets home in Northern Nevada, new hotel school at UNLV
Here's what my sources tell me:
-----About $6.5 billion budget, slight increase
---Emphasis on job growth late last year, message that things turning around
----Push for online poker with other states (I knew that GCB bill was his) -- wants bill in first month
----$135 million in what he will call "new investment" in K-12: Expansion of all-day K, first into at-risk schools, maybe more later, but also will push school choice, kids reading by third grade, invest in Teach for America, another pilot program (Jobs for America's Graduates), ELL investment
---Appropriation to boost Millennium Scholarship
---Cut MBT for more businesses
---Medicaid co-pays and emphasize may opt-out of expansion in future
---Restore merit pay for state employees next year, cut furlough days in half sooner
----Restructure half-billion dollars in debt to feds for unemployment insurance
----Vets home in Northern Nevada, new hotel school at UNLV
Now how to pay for all of this......
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