While Angle flip-flops, Reid brings 1,000 high tech jobs to Henderson

She’s busily flip-flopping her position on privatizing Social Security, Medicare and the VA - running like to hell to distance herself from the extreme positions everybody who’s been paying attention knows she’s held since the ‘flood’ - which she’s probably blaming Harry Reid for.

Meanwhile, Harry Reid just brought 1,000 jobs in a high tech LED plant to Henderson, Nevada.

What I wonder is how many Angle supporters will be there standing in line to put in an application?

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, center, arrives with Kai Huang, 2nd left, deputy mayor of Shenyang, China, Jinxiang Lu, 2nd right, chairman/CEO of A-Power, and Tom Conway, right, international vice president of the United Steelworkers union, for the dedication of a new A-Power Energy Generation Systems manufacturing facility in Henderson Tuesday, October 12, 2010. A translator is at far left. The company, based in China, will produce wind turbines and LED lighting.

Here’s the article from the Las Vegas Sun as reported by Erin Dostal:

Officials unveiled an LED manufacturing plant on Tuesday expected to create more than 1,000 jobs in Henderson by the end of the year.

The 36,000-square-foot plant at 1100 Mary Crest Road, near the Interstate 215 and Gibson Road interchange, will house a manufacturing plant for Singapore-based Asia New Energy.

An LED is a light emitting diode, which produce light while using less energy than standard light bulbs. They can be used in everything from flashlights to televisions.

The building also will be a temporary site for a wind turbine assembly facility operated by renewable energy company A-Power. Officials said A-Power will hire about 100 workers initially and up to 300 workers after it relocates to a planned 320,000-square-foot facility.

“The idea that we had to bring manufacturing jobs to Clark County…that’s what brings this about today,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said at a news conference to announce the manufacturing plant.

Reid noted that the U.S. is the greatest consumer of oil in the world. Green energy projects will help create jobs in Nevada and reduce dependence on foreign oil — two priorities, he said.

“Today we’re here for a strategy for tomorrow,” Reid said. “Nevada is already the nation’s hub for renewable energy.”

The campaign stop allowed Reid to showcase the kind of international clout and recognition he says he brings to Nevada as the Senate majority leader.

Cappy McGarr, managing partner of U.S. Renewable Energy Group and host of the event, said Reid was instrumental in getting the companies to locate in Henderson.

“He has been very astute at bringing new-energy jobs to Nevada,” McGarr said, calling the Silver State “pro-business” and adding that all jobs would be local jobs.

“I don’t know how you could get any more local than all this,” he said.

Tom Conway, international vice president of United Steelworkers, said that because 250 tons of steel are in each turbine, he expects jobs for his union’s members.

“Reid has been instrumental in bringing this about,” he said.

Asia New Energy and A-Power have a long-standing relationship of partnerships in Aisa, said Gene Jixiang Lu, chairmain and CEO of A-Power. A-Power is based in Senyang, China.

“In the future, we will also depend on your support,” Lu said through a translator.

Speaking through a translator, Kai Huang, vice mayor of Senyang City Government, said, “As the biggest energy-producing and consumer countries in the world, China and the U.S. are expanding new energy.”

The countries could continue to “set a good example for energy and environmental protection” by supporting green energy projects, he said.

The location of the final facility for wind turbines is yet to be determined, Lu said, but it will be located in either Clark County or Lincoln County in Southern Nevada. The LED manufacturing facility, he said, will begin hiring to fill the 1,000 job openings right away.

Lu didn’t give any specific instructions for applying for jobs, but he said his company had been working closely with the state to recruit.

Friday Fish Wrap: July 9, 2010

Finally, here’s some good news:

Jobs were created at five times the rate predicted by economists.

93,200 jobs created in June, 2010 alone.

Unemployment rates in spring 2010 fell from 8.1 to 7.9 percent.

Home prices rose on average 0.3 in May, 2010.

In fact, home prices could rise an average of 6.8 percent in 2010.

What? Not happening where you live?

No, it’s in that quiet bastion of Socialism to our north, Canada. You know, that place where the banks are still strong - because they were so well regulated and the whole country hadn’t succumbed to a frenzy of Ayn Rand-ism.

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Friday Fish Wrap: March 26, 2010

First, I want to begin by thanking all the people who have, apparently, become fairly regular readers of this blog. My latest analytics continue to surprise me. This blog is a labor of love, being worked in ahead of housework and a lot of other things I should be doing when not working, skiing or taking care of Mr. Maven.

A friend of a friend said, in response to looking at the maven&meddler a while back, something to the effect “some of us (snarky tone) have a life.”

True.

Mine’s really hectic, but I still can’t put down the blogging. It’s a curse. It’s also great mental health.

All for a hosting fee of $17.00 a month.

I’ve watched bloggers come and go. I hope that I can stay the course.

Watching Face to Face with Jon Ralston tonight was a hoot.

The two Tea Partiers went out of their way to prove everything I believe about them: loud and disruptive, impressed with their own ‘wink, wink’ cute-ness, and completely able to ‘debate’ in a factual vacuum. Facts do not get in the way of making their point … whatever it is. On their hyper bizarro Planet Delusional.

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Listen to the pundits or the CBO re the recovery

Here’s a link to the Congressional Budget Office official report, ‘Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output as of September 2009’.

Considering the depth of the hole we’ve been in (and that’s the understatement of the century), I’m amazed that we seen any movement toward a recovery. That said, however, it could have been so very much more, had we not been wasting billions on two foreign adventures.

Reid brings home $22 million in Interior projects to Nevada

This is where the rubber meets the road, folks. Nevada is one of the hardest hit states economically during this recession. Putting Nevadans back to work is paramount to getting this state back on track, and not as some sort of service industry follower, but as a top notch, infrastructure and technology rich leader.

Maybe you’ve still got your job and your home. Maybe you’ve been one of the lucky ones like here at Rancho Maven. But I’ll bet you can drive around your neighborhood like I can in mine, and find too many houses sitting foreclosed and sad. They won’t sell until the economy picks up and it drags the price of my nice home down.

Here’s just another $22 million that Senator Reid has brought home for critical Interior Department projects that need doing around this state. Notice that, again, these jobs are outsourcing proof.

Here’s a list of those projects (I’ll wait to see how Sue Lowden manages a negative spin of this):

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Harry Reid: bringing jobs and a 21st century economy to Nevada

Just in case you weren’t sure what Harry Reid is doing for Nevada, here’s the list … just out today, detailing the $90 million in geothermal energy dollars and more than 1,100 jobs coming to Nevada. That’s almost one third of the $338 million in grants from the Economic Recovery Package … one that Reid’s opponents like Sad Sue Lowden probably would have voted against, if her blog is any indication.

That $90 million will go toward about 25 projects here in the Silver State, and I can tell you first hand that it’s putting folks to work now … even where I’m employed. I work for an environmental sciences consulting firm that does the environmental regulatory work for projects of just this sort.

These are recession proof, out sourcing proof, well paying jobs for the future of Nevada. This is not the kind of national investment that a junior senator wannabe can deliver … especially during this deep economic hole the previous party put the country into.

Of the funding being allocated, 20 projects in Nevada will receive $72.4, while an additional five projects being run by Reno-based companies outside Nevada will receive $20.5 million.

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Moving toward 'green' jobs in Nevada's public and private sectors

Today, I read the following from Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid’s office:

Washington, DC—Nevada Harry Reid released the following statement today following his White House meeting with the President to discuss ways to spur job creation:

“Today’s meeting with the President reinforces our shared commitment to creating more jobs and providing relief to the millions of Americans who are out of work.  President Obama inherited the worst economic crisis in generations and has brought our nation back from the brink.  But too many families are still hurting, and it’s critical that we do everything possible to create jobs and strengthen the economy.

“We’re optimistic about the prospects of using renewable energy legislation to create green jobs while promoting energy efficiency.  In addition, we need to continue working toward ensuring that more families can stay in their current homes and continue efforts to strengthen the housing market by extending the homebuyer tax credit.  We also need to think about creative, innovative ways to encourage businesses to create new jobs and we’re committed to working with the President to do that. 

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