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When I started The Nevada Independent, I moved this blog onto that site. Please check it out. If you came here looking for old videos of my PBS show, I am sorry they are gone. KNPB and VegasPBS took them off the Internet and tried to extort me to have copies and force me to sign an agreement that I would never put them live on the web. I refused. Someday I will tell the full story of what Tom Axtell of VegasPBS and Kurt Mische of KNPB actually did, and I will publish some stunning emails. For...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT This week: 1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week? 2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics? 3. Thoughts on the debate?   4. Thoughts on the caucus -- if we get a winner sometime Saturday, wait for that?   5. Anything else on your mind? Vent away.   Sorry for the tardiness today, folks, but here you go:   MOST INTERESTING THING   The Harry Reid piece in the New Yorker was vintage Reid. Smart, honest and tough with a dash of...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT This week: 1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week? 2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics? 3. Culinary vs. Bernie and no endorsement for anyone: A case of a union snubbing the most labor-friendly candidate of all (Bernie), of a candidate unnecessarily angering a sleeping giant, a case of a union that could make a difference instead standing on the sidelines? Or something else? 4. By the time this is published next week, the caucus...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT This week: 1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week? 2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics? 3. You'll have two chances to make this prediction, so here's the first: Who wins Nevada? Also, does Culinary endorse? 4. What do you make of Trump's "reversal" on Yucca? Why now? Do they need Nevada, trying to put it in play, what? 5. Those lawsuits against the tax initiatives: A sign that gamers and chamber are worried, sign that they will...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT This week: 1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week? 2. Most interesting thing you read or heard this week about Nevada politics? 3. Your thoughts on the Senate impeachment spectacle?   4. If you had to put your faith in one person in elected office in Nevada right now to keep his or her promises, to do what he or she said she would do come hell or high water, the one person you would trust, who is it? Interesting answers from my insiders on who the one person they...