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Good morning, everyone. News came early this morning of robust gaming numbers for December: 9.6 percent increase in statewide win, 13 percent on the Strip. The biggest jump was nearly 25 percent in North Las Vegas: The John Lee Recovery is working!
It is still a tale of two states, though. Washoe and Reno numbers were weak – down just under a percent. Rural numbers also showed small losses. Yes, Clark County carries the state, the proverbial economic engine. But these stark disparities are...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: EMILY's List boss Stephanie Schriock
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 32
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 131
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 278
Good morning, everyone. The news broken by the intrepid Ray Hagar that Sue Wagner is leaving the GOP should not be ignored. Wagner, like the iconic, late Barbara Vucanovich, clearly has grown more disgusted with the know-nothing wing of the GOP...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 33
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 132
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 279
Good morning, everyone. Maybe I’ve grown inured – it is possible. But I found last night’s State of the Union much like previous ones – a long laundry list of items, most of them small, many going nowhere, with little memorable rhetoric and soon...
Good morning, everyone. Is there anything that better encapsulates the obnoxious “No Labels” movement, which seeks to leech ideological beliefs from people and replace it with bland nostrums, than the practice of Democrats and Republicans sitting together during the State of the Union? This purely symbolic and ephemeral act is so insipid and meaningless., showing a false front to the American public, a superficial act instead of a substantive one.
I’m not surprised that Sen. Dean Heller, R-No...
Good morning, everyone. I watched “Mitt” last night on Netflix and can’t recommend it highly enough for many reasons. The documentary of the two-time presidential candidate has a fly-on-the-wall feel to it that is unmatched in any previous political doc I have seen, at least in its ability to capture a side of Mitt Romney many never saw as the automaton-like presidential candidate dominates our experience. Many of the reviews have talked about how it “humanizes” Romney, which, of course, it...
Good morning, everyone. In a piece just published POLITICO ranked the states using many different metrics. The good news: We are not 50th. The bad news: We are 40th. Proud as I am?
Nevada actually scored in coveted mediocrity in some areas, if you look at the breakdown But our education system continues to drag us down in every one of these lists, not to mention our crime and unemployment rates and our still-hobbled housing market. It’s really quite depressing. Happy 150th, everyone!
What’s...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Guns. Again. Still.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 39
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 138
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 285
Good morning, everyone. I have said for many, many years that Carolyn Goodman is the most powerful member of that family, that her reserved style compared to her husband’s bombast masks a steely, formidable operator. Against that background, consider what...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Pot advocates are in town, and 2016 legalization move.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 40
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 139
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 286
Good morning, everyone. If you didn’t watch the More Cops show at the Clark County Commission on Tuesday, my God I envy you. The four-hour parade of fluoride haters and assorted fringe types (please insert picture of Steve...
Good morning, everyone. Yes, William Shatner is a notorious over-actor. Yes, “TJ Hooker” was an awful show. And, yes, he is a caricature of himself. But last night, I had the great pleasure of seeing Shatner’s one-man show at The Smith Center, thanks to my pal, Steve Sebelius, another Trekkie from away back. And it was hilarious, amusing and even touching at times.
It’s rare you see someone so comfortable in his own skin, and Shatner clearly is, even making fun of himself. (He also called The...
Good morning, everyone. Happy Martin Luther King Day. It’s a day for some to take the day off, a day for some to remember King’s legacy and a day for some to be seen at various events because they are running for office. I have a dream that someday politicians will be known not for the content of their hollow speeches but for the character they display by showing the courage King did. RJ veteran Sean Whaley has a good piece that made me remember just how influential African-American lawmakers...