Jim Rogers

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University system chancellor Jim Rogers wants a $3 billion federal grant to fill our state budget deficit.  Success seems unlikely, but Rogers raises an issue of fairness in his request: Nevada ranks 47th in reimbursements from the federal government, getting 70 cents for every $1 sent to Washington, D.C. 

This could be seen as a smaller, more sensible component of the massive overall bailout plan.  For $25 billion you get an auto industry, but for $3 billion you can get a whole state.  With the numbers being thrown around Washington right now on bailouts, the chancellor's request seems almost reasonable.

University system Chancellor Jim Rogers is not happy.  He wakes up every day, drinks a cup of coffee, and thinks about all of the reasons that he is unhappy with the performance of Gov. Jim Gibbons (R-Sparks), state Sen. Bob Beers (R-Las Vegas) and state Sen. Barbara Cegavske (R-Las Vegas).

Add another log to the fire, Chancellor.

The Review-Journal is all over the latest Gov. Gibbons (R-Reno) scandal in which university system Chancellor Jim Rogers is saying that the governor is trying to "muzzle" him for criticizing Gibbons "for his total lack of support of Nevada education."

Now this one is tough. On the one hand, no Gibbons scandal is shocking, and nothing seems to be beneath him. But have any of you met Jim Rogers? No one can muzzle that man. And even the governor isn't stupid enough to think he can.

Scream away, chancellor.

UNR and UNLV Students will shoulder a part of the state's budget shortfall, practically guaranteeing tuition increases if budget cuts look necessary.  Nevada University Chancellor Rogers has not been shy in opposing Gibbons' 8% budget cuts.  When they met, Gibbons would not budge on the need for cuts statewide.  They agreed that tuition should rise to keep programs in place.  Students:  Start saving now!

The Nevada Sagebrush recently reported that Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents Chair Michael Wixom and Chancellor Jim Rogers are scheduled to meet with Governor Jim Gibbons on Monday.