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TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: The gay marriage vote aftermath.
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 41
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY 2014: 560
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 93
Good morning, everyone. It lasted a little more than an hour and the gallery was mostly empty except for a half-dozen or so Assembly members and a few lobbyists there for other bills. But last night’s gay marriage debate, during...
Good morning, everyone. Rushing to get this out, dear Flashees, because I am winging my way to Carson where a big deadline cometh. I hear Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick will introduce her admissions tax bill today but that NV Energy will amend it with a bill that allows the utility to charge $1 million to any other company that wants admission (see the nexus!) to the renewables market. Sounds like good policy.
I was subjected to another unfortunate manifestation of the Twitter world in which we...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 45
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY 2014: 564
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 97
Good morning, everyone. Surreal to have watched some of the manhunt last night before I went to sleep and awaken to a major American city shut down. This is truly amazing to watch, something out of a movie. (No question Ben Affleck makes this one.) Very...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 46
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY 2014: 565
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 98
Good morning, everyone. I’m not sure how many of you saw thatRose Garden address after the gun vote, but it was highly unusual. A Newtown family member introducing the president after a heartbreaking speech and then a seething POTUS lashing out at...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: The gun votes.
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 47
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY 2014: 566
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 99
Good morning, everyone. I’m a little late today because I watched Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s startling speech on gun control. I have written a lot about Reid’s ruthlessness and calculations, but this seemed to be Harry Unplugged, talking in...
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.”
We...
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...