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UPDATE: Five hours after I posted this, the "newspaper" did this. Interesting.
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Even for the "newspaper," where journalistic standards are an oxymoron, this is a new nadir.
After reporter Ben Spillman reported on an interview with Rep. Joe Heck, who spoke to a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Monday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal posted the story at 5:05 PM. (See screenshot below.)
The story was quite newsy, including Heck defending his vote not to end the NSA's metadata collection...
The well-known site DailyKos has broken down Nevada's presidential and Senate race votes by legislative district, congressional district and by county.
One finding premium subscribers to this site already know: Dean Heller won CD3, 49-43, over Shelley Berkley, an ominous portent for Democratic National Committeewoman Erin Bilbray.
Others:
►Berkley and Heller were essentially tied in Justin Jones' pivotal state Senate district. President Obama won it by 9 percentage points.
►Heller won by 5...
In my quixotic quest to pin down Democratic lawmakers on the margins tax they ignored during Session '13, my latest challenge was Justin Jones, whose Senate seat may hold the key to upper house control.
When I first ran into Jones last week, he told me he had to talk to some people before giving me his position on The Education Initiative. I finally got it, and it was not worth waiting for:
"While I fundamentally disagree with tax policy being decided at the ballot box, I do agree that changes...
Was there ever a question? Time to come clean, senator.
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A special Harry Reid edition this weekend, dear Flashees, with some non-Prince Harry nuggets at the end. I’ll look at his latest FEC filing, who his bundlers are and raise the question of whether he really is running again.
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After visiting the embattled Rawson-Neal psychiatric facility in May and June, the Joint Commission recommended accreditation for the troubled facility, according to a letter from state officials to the non-profit outfit.
The missive, which I have obtained and is attached to this post, indicates that this week's preliminary denial was part of another type of survey -- part of a two-track process the hospital has been undergoing. One track arose out of the patient-dumping scandal; the other is a...