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Good morning, everyone. I hope all of you who have relatives or family in Boston have been able to contact them and they are safe. (My brother and his family were supposed to be at the race’s finish, but they left early because the kids were cranky.) The RJ has an excellent team report on Southern Nevadans who were there and the Reno Gazette-Journal did the same with northern runners.
I couldn’t help but think, as I did after 9/11, just how vulnerable and appealing a target Las Vegas is for...
Good morning, everyone. I had one pleasant viewing experience Sunday and one depressing/frustrating one. The latter first. What in the world is wrong with Matthew Weiner? Does he really think he is so deep that many of us former “Mad Men” fans can’t figure out what he is doing? The show began to lose its way last season and now it is gone. Yes, there are still sparks of genius, but they are doused by the tiresome personal subplots. And where is Joan? I may give it one more week, but not much...
Good morning, everyone. Today is the day when all bad bills go to die – no good bills ever are entombed on Deadline Day. Actually, it’s only the first deadline (bills supposedly have to be out of the committee in the house of origin), so there is plenty of time (they have to be out of the first house in 10 days) to get your dead bill amended into a live one. Or get a fiscal note or special leadership bill. Yes, these are ot hard deadlines, as Andrew Doughman reports on the “zombie bills.”
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Good morning, everyone. Two huge votes today, and I’m not sure which is more important: A DC procedural vote on gun control and a Carson City vote in a Senate committee on transparency in campaigns and gifts. Which will have a longer lasting impact? Does anyone else care about SB 49 in Nevada?
I chatted about the bill Wednesday with state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, who was noncommittal but told me about a caucus amendment that will be proposed today to try to get Democratic votes. Atkinson (and he...
Good morning, everyone. Something is different today. I can’t put my finger on it. The only way to describe it – the only way! – is that I feel like I am within a world, yet in a state apart. I’m not sure why.Anyone else?
Off to Carson City this morning to take the capital’s temperature leading up to Friday’s first major deadline – bills must be out of the first committee or they die (or come back later as amendments if they are lucky, making a mockery of the deadline). I’ll be especially...
Good morning, everyone. I’m much calmer about Michigan’s crushing defeat than I thought I would be. I’m not sure why. Mellowing with age? They had a great run, so I’m just happy about that? I secretly bet a fortune on Louisville? Not sure. But now back to the real March Madness (OK, it's April) in Carson City---
I know many of you reading this don’t want Ross Miller’s transparency bill to pass. Tough. I am on it (see below), I see what you are doing and I will be obnoxious about it (this is not...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: AG Catherine Cortez Masto.
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 56
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY 2014: 575
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 108
Good morning, everyone. Quite an eventful weekend in my universe (is there another one that matters?) with Michigan’s heartstopping victory on Saturday, my completion (yes, I know I am late) of “House of Cards” and the season premiere of...
Good morning, everyone. And so the First Friday ritual begins: Jobs numbers are released, and my Twitter feed explodes with rote reactions from partisans, trying to spin the numbers as a sign that the president should be impeached for incompetence or deified for saving the world. I exaggerate. But not by much.
Rarely do you have moments in Carson City that make your forget the extraordinary pettiness and sameness, but Thursday’sHolocaust Memorial Day was one such moment. It was a beautiful,...
Good morning, everyone. It’s halfway over! Back in the state’s capital again, dear Flashees, to check in to the post-Brooks expulsion world, and I did sense a business-back-to-as-usual atmosphere. That’s a good thing. Sixty days and counting, distractions gone, so it’s time to get back to the regular rhythms. Right?
It’s not too early to mention that in the coming Rush to Close phase of the session, not one of the legislative leaders has ever negotiated the end to a session. Does this matter?...
Good morning, everyone. As Shari Buck wonders this morningwhat the heck Maureen McGovern was singing about all those decades ago, feeling a bit like the S.S. Poseidon, the truth is that the Southern Nevada city elections were not that surprising. Maybe John Lee’s victory over Buck was a little larger than some might have thought, but incumbents winning in off-year elections, except a mayor in a city under water with a well-funded foe, is hardly news. I’ll say it again: It’s time to change the...