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This week:
1. A quartet of nuggets, including some documents for you on the Washoe County School District’s ongoing problem with open government, what the city of Las Vegas claims about its new Tourism Improvement District and more.
2. Thoughts on the latest Assembly leadership crew.
3. Is the Michele Fiore tax lien story long-lasting?
Most of my insiders think the Hambrick-Fiore team lasts at least through early session. They are split on the nuclear option...
A popular Republican governor de facto unopposed for re-election and planning a tax increase.
A willing state Senate majority leader who wants to bolster education funding.
An unpredictable Assembly with some strong-willed no-tax absolutists.
The state’s most powerful special interest mobilizing to get businesses to pay more.
Business folks talking a good game about wanting to pay more for education.
Here we go. Again.
The run-up to Session ’15 looks a lot like the prelude to Session ’03, the...
Good morning, everyone. I am thinking of moving to Carson City, taking up residence in the Hardman House (Adele’s proximity!) and writing two books – one about the 2015 Legislature, which will be unlike any in Nevada history, and one on Harry Reid. Which would have the craziest stuff in it?
Lots of good stuff coming this weekend in premium content. And I’ll have a column Sunday, too. Damn. I thought this was supposed to be the slow time. But I guess I should thank the Assembly GOP for the raft...
Good morning, everyone. ICYMI, I urge you to check out Speaker-for-the-Moment John Hambrick’s appearance on “Ralston Reports” last night. He tried to dispel any impression Majority Leader-for-the-Moment Michele Fiore, whom he disclosed spent an entire day gathering proxies for him, is the power behind the throne. And he also twice said he was open to taxes for education funding, despite having signed the idiotic tax pledge.
As the governor and Democrats try to find 10 other Republicans who...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL THE GREATEST LEGISLATIVE SESSION EVER BEGINS: 61
DAYS UNTIL THE STATE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: 210
DAYS UNTIL THE 2016 ELECTION: 706
Good morning, everyone. Thanks to my pal, Steve Sebelius, for this. Very classy.
Don’t worry, I say again, dear Flashees: I’m not going anywhere. Will still be Flashing and posting, and I already have offers and feelers. More to come soon. I just can’t decide which book to do first. the Reid...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL THE GREATEST LEGISLATIVE SESSION EVER BEGINS: 62
DAYS UNTIL THE STATE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: 211
DAYS UNTIL THE 2016 ELECTION: 707
Good morning, everyone. First, let me say I am still overwhelmed by the outpouring after my announcement Monday that “Ralston Reports” will go off KSNV’s air on Dec. 12. It has been gratifying, and it is much appreciated. I could not be prouder of what Dana Gentry and I have accomplished in almost 14...
On Monday, the day before the Assembly Republican Caucus was scheduled to vote on new leaders, Michele Fiore arrived unannounced at the Las Vegas Strip office of Sheldon Adelson.
The second-term assemblywoman, who had helped elevate Ira Hansen to speaker-designate only to see that collapse under the weight of racist and hompohobic offal he had produced as a columnist, had a new plan: She wanted to derail the candidacy of Paul Anderson, who, by most accounts, had the votes to succeed Hansen....