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On the same day that thousands protested the end of labor as we know it in Michigan, the largest, thriving union in a right-to-work state celebrated the ascendancy of its first female and Hispanic leader.
As Michigan is poised to become the country’s 24th right-to-work state (unions can't force new employees to pay dues), it’s worth remembering just how potent labor is here in Nevada, despite the 60-year-old law on the books here. With an invaluable assist from ex-state Archivist Guy Rocha, I...
Treasurer Kate Marshall, trying to get the jump on the field and surely thrilling donors exhausted from Campaign '12, is holding a fundraiser next week in Las Vegas for her nascent campaign for secreatary of state.
The invite, attached here, has quite the host committee, showing the aggressive tresaurer made sure to make a lot of calls before sending this out.
Politicians, lobbyists and gamers -- oh my.
Labor folks, too. Enviros. Both ends of the state.
Message sent.
I have finally obtained the order filed late last week in the residency case of Andrew Martin, the assemblyman elected a day after Judge Rob Bare said he was ineligible to run.
Bare's order, attached here, is not as explicit, referring only to Martin's lack of residency in Assembly District 9 and not declaring him ineligible to be on the ballot. (That's not what the judge could do, only what he chose to say.)
The order concludes: "The Court finds that Andrew Martin is not an actual resident of...
In a letter sent today to Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Secretary of State Ross Miller, Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey asks them to look into $65,000 in legislative contributions from former Speaker Barbara Buckley.
The missive, attached here and co-signed by state Sen. Greg Brower, a former U.S. attorney, argues that the donations violate NRS 294A. 160(6), which "requires that an elected official close his or her campaign account by no later than the 15th day of the second...
As D. Taylor moves up to take over the Culinary's parent union, Local 226 in Las Vegas has elected a former housekeeper as its new leader.
Nevada's largest union has elected Geoconda Arguello-Kline, who was in the No. 2 position of president (only in labor is a president No. 2!), as its secretary-treasurer. The first Latina president is now the first female leader of the union.
She is a former Nicaraguan refugee who arrived in Miami and later moved to Las Vegas.
A few weeks after he stunned the Nevada political world, especially elected officials and activists in his own party, with a “visual verification” plan (Don’t call it voter ID!), Secretary of State Ross Miller is in fence-mending mode.
Or explanatory mode.
Or "what I meant to say" mode.
Miller acknowledged on “Ralston Reports” shortly after Review-Journal reporter Ed Vogel broke the story that it was not his most graceful unfurling of a policy initiative (damn media didn’t help). Beyond a few...
It’s time to start keeping track of these baby steps.
As Gov. Brian Sandoval returns to his centrist ways in all things, from taxes to immigration, he is sending signals that he is not the same guy who ran to the right of a corpse named Jim Gibbons in 2010. Two years plus after embracing the Arizona law (SB1070), Sandoval is starting to reach out to the Hispanic community – and he did it again Monday with the announcement of Brian Ayala’s appointment to the Nevada Commission on Tourism.
Ayala...