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WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you heard or read about Nevada politics this week?
3. Coronavirus in Nevada: What happens next? Grade the government's reaction so far. Give any thoughts you might have.
4. Does the education adequacy lawsuit affect the political landscape at all? If so, how?
5. Cortez Masto as Biden's running mate? Insanity or possibility?
Some good stuff from my insiders, with general praise...
When I started The Nevada Independent, I moved this blog onto that site. Please check it out.
If you came here looking for old videos of my PBS show, I am sorry they are gone. KNPB and VegasPBS took them off the Internet and tried to extort me to have copies and force me to sign an agreement that I would never put them live on the web. I refused.
Someday I will tell the full story of what Tom Axtell of VegasPBS and Kurt Mische of KNPB actually did, and I will publish some stunning emails. For...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics?
3. Thoughts on the debate?
4. Thoughts on the caucus -- if we get a winner sometime Saturday, wait for that?
5. Anything else on your mind? Vent away.
Sorry for the tardiness today, folks, but here you go:
MOST INTERESTING THING
The Harry Reid piece in the New Yorker was vintage Reid. Smart, honest and tough with a dash of...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics?
3. Culinary vs. Bernie and no endorsement for anyone: A case of a union snubbing the most labor-friendly candidate of all (Bernie), of a candidate unnecessarily angering a sleeping giant, a case of a union that could make a difference instead standing on the sidelines? Or something else?
4. By the time this is published next week, the caucus...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics?
3. You'll have two chances to make this prediction, so here's the first: Who wins Nevada? Also, does Culinary endorse?
4. What do you make of Trump's "reversal" on Yucca? Why now? Do they need Nevada, trying to put it in play, what?
5. Those lawsuits against the tax initiatives: A sign that gamers and chamber are worried, sign that they will...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics?
3. Your thoughts on the Senate impeachment spectacle?
4. If you had to put your faith in one person in elected office in Nevada right now to keep his or her promises, to do what he or she said she would do come hell or high water, the one person you would trust, who is it?
Interesting answers from my insiders on who the one person they...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics?
3. Will/should Ford or Sisolak do anything about rural sheriffs saying they will not obey gun laws?
4. Michele Fiore's campaign report is full of outrages, as Riley reported. What's your take? Where does this lie on the Kelvin scale?
5. What else is on your mind? What else is happening? Vent away.
Really interesting and different views this...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics?
3. Thoughts on CCEA's two initiatives?
4. Anything jump out at you from the campaign finance disclosures?
You know what I think about the CCEA tax plans, and my insiders have a wide variety of opinions, too. And praise for the gov’s fundraising but not so much for his lack of stance on the CCEA plans….
►Optimism! The shifting ownership and...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics?
3. What is the one prediction about Nevada politics that you have for the new year you feel most confident in making?
4. What is the one prediction about Nevada politics you have for the new year you feel least confident in making?
5. What issue could blow up this year and affect the election? Which ballot question will get the most...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics?
3. The rest of the 2019 lookbacks:
Legislator of the year (Carson City)
Rookie of the year (any level)
Leader of the year (any level)
Choose your own award
Lots of agreement that Jason Frierson (especially) and Nicole Cannizzaro deserve kudos for their performances this year – and this comes across party and lobbyist ideological lines. (Oh,...