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TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 91
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 190
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 337
Good morning, everyone. Hope you all have recovered from your tryptophan haze and the non-stop football games to focus on what’s really important to consider during the holiday season: Who is doing what in politics. I am still recovering from that amazing Michigan loss...
Good morning, everyone. Was I the only one who noticed how gingerly Steve Wynn addressed web poker on Monday, telling reporters his pal, Sheldon Adelson, was like the folks trying to stop alcohol consumption during Prohibition. He made the genie-out-of-the-bottle argument without attacking Adelson, saying he was right to be concerned about controls but that web gaming is inevitable. Sometimes friends disagree.
This will be the last Morning Flash of the holiday week. I wish everyone a Happy...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Ex-gubernatorial chief of staff Robin Reedy, who is challenging Assemblyman Jim Wheeler
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 98
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 197
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 344
Good morning, everyone. I had the honor Saturday evening to emcee the annual Anti-Defamation Dinner at Caesars, which had well over 500 people attending. It was quite the eclectic group of...
Good morning, everyone. Unlike many people of my generation, I have no memory of where I was 50 years ago today when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I have tried to remember, but---nothing. Not even a vague recollection of shock or sadness from my parents. I was a young child, but somehow I feel like I should remember, should be more connected to that day. Beyond the reality and the mythology, though, is a shared sense of loss of something – if not innocence, which I think is too cliché and...
Good morning, everyone. Thanks to Sheldon Adelson, web gaming exploded into the national news starting Wednesday, with an absolute evisceration in USA Today followed by new AGA chief Geoff Freeman’s contrary view. Don’t underestimate Adelson’s commitment on this issue: Two of his top operatives, Andy Abboud and Robert Uithoven, are in Arizona at the Republican Governor’s Association, handing out anti-web gaming propaganda. I hear they are getting a good reception.
The great Chuck Todd focused...
I kept saying I never had any doubts how the case would turn out.
But I doubted. And I was afraid.
I knew that what John Bailey, the lawyer for ex-Gov. Kenny Guinn’s son, was trying to do was outrageous and unethical and wouldn’t be sanctioned in any other profession: Lying in court documents about a journalist’s integrity to smear her and chill her reporting. And I firmly believed that the state Supreme Court had opted to consider Bailey’s petition for extraordinary relief mostly to squash...
Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who last week talked about picketers being shot and how she would “hire thugs” if she were running the Cosmopolitan, said last month she carries weapons in gun-free zones, sneered at the governor for making the wrong GOP chairman choice and made an anatomically impossible reference to the chancellor, among other off-color and bizarre remarks.
Fiore, pictured at right with her close friend and Assembly hopeful Victoria Seaman, whom she touted in her speech to the...