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TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: The TI's Phil Ruffin joins us.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 690
DAYS UNTIL THE STATE OF THE STATE: 37
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 56
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 227
Good morning, everyone. Hard to believe it’s been a month since the election, isn’t it? Do you miss the ads? Or have you not seen the latest ones asking you to “call President Obama”...
In an assessment of the 2014 outlook for chief executives, Governing magazine finds 22 of 38 "not currently vulnerable."
Among those is our own Gov. Sunny, with this assessment from reporter Lou Jacobson:
Nevada, hard hit by the recession, turned strongly Democratic in the 2012 presidential race. Still, Sandoval seems to be defying gravity. One of the GOP's fresh Latino faces, Sandoval has crossover appeal; his approval ratings have been roughly 60 percent, meaning that a swath of Democrats and...
So the picture below is of Nevada's two senators taking part in a Chanukah celebration in Washington, DC.
The photo just cries out for a caption. Please help! The comments await.
A couple of suggestions from one wag:
"Harry - I did this with Sheldon last night"
"Harry - I bet you really miss Shelley right about now. Shalom!"
Mo Denis, who will be leading the Nevada Senate in less than two months, and his first cousin, Marco Rubio, who may be the de facto minority leader of the U.S. Senate next year, met today in the latter's DC office.
Maybe Denis gave Rubio advice on how to deal with hair loss.
Dean Heller 1.0 was this anti-Establishment secretary of state, proposing what he called "Election Day registration" to increase voter participation.
Dean Heller 2.0 was the super-conseravtive congressman and appointed U.S. senator, whose spokesman said ugly partisan politics prompted a Heller evolution that changed his position to opposing same-day registration.
Dean Heller 3.0 is the newly minted full-term senator, who is considering tax increases and immigration reform, but not....same-day...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wouldn't take a specific position on fellow Democrat and Secretary of State Ross Miller's voter ID (visual verification!) plan, but he did sound a word of caution -- or so it sounded to me.
Here's what I got when I asked for the senator's reaction to the proposal:
“I haven’t examined his proposal in detail but am happy to look into it. We should work to find ways to improve voter participation, rather than curtailing it. That is why I support same-day...
In the wake of Gov. Brian Sandoval's decision to expand Medicaid, the praise has flowed and the brickbats are few.
Gov. Sunny tried to head off any criticism from the right with his announcment headline: "Governor Brian Sandoval today announced he will include 78,000 additional people in Nevada’s Medicaid Program and decrease the Modified Business Tax for Nevada businesses"
But that sop -- decreasing what might be the dumbest tax Nevada ever enacted (this is a stiff competition) -- and the...
The senators were there for the confirmation hearing for Andrew Gordon. The picture comes courtesy of the Stephens DC bureau's Peter Urban.
Mine: "Dean Heller reacts when Harry Reid says, 'So can we get Elissa Cadish done next?'"
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