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Which person will run for governor? Primary tabs View Edit Outline Results(active tab) Votes Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak   51% (99 votes) Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto   25% (50 votes) Some rich guy from Tahoe   17% (33 votes) Las Vegas Councilman Bob Beers   3% (6 votes) Jim Gibbons   3% (6 votes) Total votes: 194  
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will hold an immigration reform rally at Culinary union headquarters on Monday, a few days after the U.S. Senate is expected to have passed a bipartisan measure. The event -- flyer attached below -- will feature perhaps the House's most prominent Latino leader, Illinois' Luis Gutierrez, who has been to Nevada before and is sure to remind the crowd about the state's burgeoning Latino population and how it played and will play a pivotal role in elections. The...
The Sacramento Bee isn't done yet embarrassing Nevada's mental health system. After weeks of stories that highlighted unattended patients being bused from Rawson-Neal in Las Vegas to other cities, the California capital newspaper showed Sunday that James Flavy Brown was hardly an abberation. In a piece Sunday that found eight other dumped patients and then an editorial today that accused the feds of glossing over the scandal, the newspaper served notice it will not relent. Read the Bee and...
Welcome to the Weekly Report. This week: 1. My column: Control of the Legislature 2. Insider Club Inductee: Anthony DeAngelo 3. State of the Races: A few, minor changes   MY COLUMN: THE KEYS TO CARSON CITY CONTROL   With no presidential or senatorial contests, and with a gubernatorial race in name only, much of the focus for both parties will be on changing the Carson City matrix. Yes, putting the puzzle pieces together for the down-ticket constitutional offices will take time and resources (...
You may recall that Secretary of State Ross Miller has been taking guff from a GOP-aligned group that clearly wants to stop him -- or at least wound him -- before he becomes attorney general. There have been mailers and a web site, not to mention some stenographic, unquestioning treatment from the "newspaper." Much of this started when Miller was trying to get a transparency bill through an unfriendly Gang of 63, which eventually gutted and then killed the excellent proposal. The Republican...

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