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Two incipient constitutional officer contenders attended a kickoff Thursday evening for a new anti-union campaign designed to pummel the Culinary Union and extinguish the margin tax ballot question.
Sue Lowden, poised to enter the lieutenant governor's race, and her good friend, state Sen. Barbara Cegavske, who is mulling a secretary of state bid, were at Bahama Breeze to help unveil the Alliance to Protect Nevada Jobs, sources tell me. That's the effort funded by conservative business types...
Good morning, everyone. If you didn’t catch it last night (link below), Las Vegas Councilman Bob Coffin and Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak jousted over More Cops in quite a spirited to and fro. Sisolak gave no quarter while Coffin fretted about public safety. Good TV.
Don’t make early plans for tonight, dear Flashees: First, we have Sheriff Doug Gillespie on “Ralston Reports” at 6:30. And then, one hour later, to the sounds of trumpets, I will make my return to “Nevada Week in Review...
Sen. Dean Heller has sent out news releases and given speeches about erasing the special "exemption" senators, congressmen and their aides have in Obamacare, but his office refuses to say whether Nevada's junior staff and his staff will opt out once enrollment opens next month.
Indeed, Team Heller has gone to great lengths to avoid answering the question.
After Heller gave yet another speech this week about the "exemption," I emailed his press secretary, Chandler Smith, and asked:
I saw the...
Unlike too many of my colleagues, I tend to give elected officials, especially Nevada legislators, the benefit of the doubt.
They get paid less than a Big Mac flipper. Most of them are hard-working. And the Southern Nevada ones have to be far from their families.
It’s not all dinners at Adele’s, frolicking at Tahoe and free tickets to Strip shows. Not for most.
But as hard as I try to be understanding despite the serial failings of the Gang of 63 to deal thoughtfully with the state’s problems...
Good morning, everyone. For a newspaper trying to justify its enduring existence, the Las Vegas Sun seems to have an odd way of going about it: The site was (is?) down for the second time in a couple of weeks. It is not just infuriating for newsletter publishers but probably for others, too. Maybe they need to bring back Rob “Internet Jesus” Curley?
I went to the print edition of the Sun to look for a story I talk about below and I found a huge picture of a kid getting a balloon and some story...
I felt a little like Navin Johnson when the new phonebook arrived.
My joy was irrational, unrestrained. The 2014 version of "The Almanac of American Politics," the closest thing to a holy book in the business, came in the mail recently.
Overseen by the master, Michael Barone, and ably assisted by Chuck McCutcheon, Sean Trende and Josh Kraushaar, the tome is stuffed with information about every state's political environment and its top elected officials. It is the veritable treasure trove, with...
Robert Uithoven once had to be a spokesman for Jim Gibbons, so he must think there are no worse jobs.
Why else, besides a desire by many in the GOP for the state party to be credible, would he be considering a bid to oust Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald?
Party chairman is as thankless a job as you can imagine, perhaps more so than being a campaign spokesman for a soon-to-be governor whose first name would become "scandal-plagued." But Uithoven, now a lobbyist for Sheldon Adelson's...
Good morning, everyone. Sometimes reaction to “Ralston Reports” is immediate and reminds me just how wonderfully diverse and downright sweet my viewers are. Consider how last night’s love email began, shortly after the program was over: “At first I thought Rush Limbaugh had been castrated, and starved into a 90 pound weakling.” I got a little lachrymose, I must say.
The president of my fan club went on about my “ LEFT-WING, Commie agenda” and how I was ignoring the depredations of Benghazi,...