Assembly Majority Leader William Horne, D-Las Vegas, on Tuesday objected to the university system’s plan that “holds harmless” both Great Basin and Western Nevada colleges from further budget cuts this coming cycle. “It seems to me that held harmless, some of that backfill keeping Northern Nevada harmless is coming from the south,” he said. “There is overall belief that we’ve got to eliminate the pain in the north in order to make this work, but there’ve been cuts for years in the south without any bridges or delays.” The budget as proposed would cut 10 percent to 15 percent for …

