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If you missed it, the Las Vegas Review-Journal today gave yours truly many column inches in its "Nevadan At Work" feature.
It's a testament to the reporter, Jennifer Robison, who did a straight-up piece, and the editor (Mike Hengel) and publisher (Bob Brown) for green-lighting it. (A far cry from the drefocked duo who used to run the place, one of whom actually took to the "comments" section.)
It is time to drop the quote marks around the "newspaper" now?
Far be it from lil ole me to disagree with Nate Silver, the polling guru who has gained even more celebrity this cycle because he correctly foretold President Obama's victory.
But Silver, in his latest post criticizes how internal numbers can often mislead the media -- and the candidate. Although that is true -- and certainly was in Mitt Romney's case, as Silver points out -- the real story here is one that is general to the media -- reporters should know which pollsters to trust -- and...
Welcome to this holiday season edition of The Weekly Report. There will be one more before the new year, two weekends from now.
Today I feature my choices for the Top 10 Political Stories of 2012. Enjoy.
THE TOP 10 POLITICAL STORIES OF 2012
It’s always 10, the top 10, the 10 most, the 10 biggest.
When it comes to end-of-the-year lists – and that time has come – it’s often hard to find just 10, much less put them in the right order. But that is what I have done below (OK, I cheated with some...
I delivered this rant on "Ralston Reports" on Friday -- the video is elsewhere on the site, a couple of minutes into the program:
April Mastroluca’s resignation from the Assembly reinforces what I have long thought about our Carson City Gang of 63:
It’s time to end the citizen Legislature in Nevada. And it’s time to end the biennial Legislature in Nevada.
If my sources are right, Mastroluca is leaving because she couldn’t afford to feed her family by sojourning in Carson City four months every...