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TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 781
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 82
DAYS UNTIL LAWMAKERS PUNT ON THE MARGINS TAX: 2
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 134
Good morning, everyone. I am still trying to recover from the darkness the Gang of 63 brought to Sunshine Week on Tuesday, chafing at good government proposals and ham-handedly trying...
Good morning, everyone. You don’t often see what the “newspaper” published in an updated post early Monday evening, with an astounding quote from ex-national BLM Director Bob Abbey about that lawsuit expected to be settled as early as thismorning. I will alter it because this is a family newsletter, but he said: "At the end of the day, I am hopeful the good citizens of Henderson will realize they have f---ing idiots working for them and that they will show up at the polls to elect officials who...
Good morning, everyone. Looking forward – yes, I said it! – to a few days in Carson City this week as I am now firmly convinced that the 77th may be much more interesting than I had imagined. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying the Gang of 63 will do anything visionary or even less than myopic. But the mining tax assault by Republicans (!) was an unpredictable development, so whop knows what could happen this week? Lawmakers vote to pass the margins tax? Well, let’s not get crazy. Yes, dear...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Trying for program on mental health.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 776
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 87
DAYS UNTIL LAWMAKERS PUNT ON THE MARGINS TAX: 7
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 139
Good morning, everyone. So when the Nevada jobs report comes out in a few days, will it be as sunny as the national one? The gaming taxes collected in...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: A plan to use eminent domain to deal with the foreclosure crisis.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 775
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 89
DAYS UNTIL LAWMAKERS PUNT ON THE MARGINS TAX: 9
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 140
Good morning, everyone. I watched part of Rand Paul’s historic filibuster Wednesday and tried to imagine a similar scene in...
Good morning, everyone. That was some tax day in the capital on Tuesday. Who would have guessed the margins tax hearing would be an anticlimax after the Senate GOP shocker? The three-hour hearing produced little new of substance, many apocalyptic admonitions from foes and changed not one vote, I’d guess. If there is indeed a vote within the next 10 days. (That sound you hear is of knees knocking.) NSEA boss Lynn Warne acknowledged right away on “Ralston Reports” (link below) that the hearing on...
Good morning, everyone. Back to the future. I’m not sure there is a better description for the stunning development that Genting will spend up to $7 billion on the Strip to build a new megaresort. The money had been going to Asia; now it’s coming here. Family-friendly was so 1990s; now it’s coming back. The northern Strip was so done; now it’s revitalized. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, as Gov. Brian Sandoval said. That’s an understatement. But if they build the pagodas, the Asians...
Good morning, everyone. Still recovering from that smashing Democratic win, 67-56 over the Republicans, the biennial donkey-elephant game in Reno at Lawlor. In what may be a preview of the ruthlessness needed to win high office, Dem overseer Ross Miller picked two spectacular ringers, former Stanford guard Lindy LaRocque and ex-Rebel/Globetrotter Warren Rosegreen, who scored about two-thirds of the Democratic points. Al Davis would be proud, SOS Miller.
The game was the warmup for the UNLV-UNR...
Good morning, everyone. As Maureen McGovern once sang, there’s got to be a morning after. And apparently there is, even after the financial tidal wave known as the sequester sweeps across the country. I don’t know about you, but I thank God I am alive. And just knowing that Gov. Brian Sandoval is optimistic is pretty much all I need.
Three posts on the site already this morning, dear Flashees. Yes, your favorite Flasher never sleeps, which is why, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid might say...
Good morning, everyone. This inside baseball DC spectacle of Bob Woodward vs. The White House will strike many as ridiculous, and not just because the emails released today make the legendary journalist seem a bit silly. So they have gone from arguing over the provenance of the sequester leaders of both parties supported to THIS? Really? Almost makes the Carson City silliness seem less----silly.
What amazes me is that anyone would believe a White House official would threaten Woodward in the...