Prior to last year's bitter debate over state taxes, you'd have to go back to 1989 to find the last time a significant portion of the Nevada Legislature was under public assault. Then the majority of legislators approved an ill-advised 300 percent pension increase for themselves, only to crawl back to outraged voters on their hands and knees by rescinding that decision in a special session. The gesture was too little, too late -- more than one-third of the lawmakers seeking re-election lost their seats in 1990. Fast forward to last year, when a sharply divided Legislature approved a record...