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Good morning, everyone. Because I have a fertile, nimble mind or because I sadly have a very narrow focus even on non-workdays (i.e. no life), I got to thinking over the weekend when the last really competitive governor’s race was in Nevada. Even if you consider the Jim Gibbons-Dina Titus contest a close one – and the final numbers belie how obvious the outcome was going to be – that is an outlier. So how long has it been? Four decades!
I was thinking of starting a new feature – Politician...
Good morning, everyone. So on the eve of a court hearing that could determine the future of the Las Vegas Sun, one of the attorneys for Brian Greenspun, desperately seeking to keep his voice alive, declares on “Ralston Reports” that the Department of Justice is investigating the proposed dissolution of the Joint Operating Agreement. A short time later, Joe Alioto’s comments, not yet aired, are published in the Las Vegas Sun with a headline not attributing it to the paper’s publisher’s...
This isn't the big one -- I still think the gamers, retailers at. al. are coming.
But the former CEO of Charter Cable and a couple worried about the impact on business have formed an anti-margins tax political action committee called NV Jobs. (The paperwork is attached here.)
Maria Martinez, whose husband is affilated with the conservative Cato Institute, says the PAC is "just a group of citizens," including Manny Martinez, the former cable company executive.
"We're all in favor of funding...
As most of Nevada's political elite expect a Brian Sandoval blowout next year, I began to think back to when a race for governor actually was really competitive.
It's been awhile.
2010--Sandoval, 53 percent; Rory Reid, 42 percent
2006--Jim Gibbons, 48 percent; Dina Titus, 44 percent (Seems relatively close, but never really in doubt, even after three (!) scandals rocked Gibbons' campaign in final weeks.)
2002- Kenny Guinn, 68 percent; Joe Neal, 22 percent
1998 -- Guinn, 52 percent; Jan Jones,...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The debut of the Weekly Campaign Insiders
2. Setting the WCI baseline for Campaign ‘14
3. State of the Races
I have gathered, as I did during Session ’13, a diverse group of insiders to provide premium subscribers with exclusive access to what is REALLY going on inside campaigns this cycle. I have asked them to put aside their biases and paychecks to provide me – and thus you – with insight you will not find anywhere else. You will know – as you did...
In 1985, as a youthful, ingenuous reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, I sat next to the general manager at a Lake Tahoe awards banquet and asked him about the Las Vegas Sun.
It went something like this:
“When will the Sun go out of business?” I wondered of the competition, which I had, in my competitive zeal, come to think of as the Evil Empire.
“Oh, we’ll never let it go out of business,” Earl Johnson told me. “We will first go into a Joint Operating Agreement with them to keep the Sun...
UPDATE: Guy Hobbs, the numbers guru who advised the panel, tells me that while the commdoity rate is going up by 60 percent, it is muted by other factors in the bill. That is, the commeodity rate is only a component of the bill, so it will be partially absorbed by others.
He estimates the highest residential increases at about 13 or 14 percent. That will still cause some eyebrow-raising, but perhaps not head-exploding.
Take a look at the appendices of the report here, espcially Appendix I, for...