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UPDATE NO. 2, 8/14/13: So they sent out the notice again today, with this at the top: «Please note that due to an overwhelming response, the location in Red Rock Casino Hotel Spa has been changed to The Veranda."
I bet it's overwhelming. I think every Carson City lobbyist is on this list. And if they're not, they soon will be (Gov. Arm Twister and possibly returning senator Hutch will see to that).
Could this be the first million-dollar event for lieutenant governor in state annals? Don't bet...
"Las Vegas gambler makes $100,000 bet on House Republicans"
That's the headline on a Center for Public Integrity piece on Wednesday, a reference to Billy Walters, who has bundled a fortune to local and state officials through various corporations and now has taken advantage of federal laws with another.
The center found that Walters, through an entity called T Star III LLC, gave the $100K to a Super PAC trying to keep the House in GOP control:
Walters is a well-known sports bettor who made $3...
At the National Clean Energy Summit last year, Senate Majority Harry Reid leveled a broadside at NV Energy, as he has done many times in his career.
Reid lambasted the utility for not closing its Reid-Gardner coal plant, a fusillade that fit nicely into the majority leader's personal war on coal that began years earlier as he actually induced NV Energy to abandon plans for a facility in rural Nevada.
That was then. That is the public posture.
But privately, on Tuesday, during a break at this...
A national conservative group that spent $15 million in 2012 trying to defeat President Obama is doing robopolling in Nevada to assess the re-election prospects of Gov. Brian Sandoval and Rep. Joe Heck.
I received the call this afternoon, and when I dialed the number, a machine told me I had reached Americans for Job Security, a dark money group that the New York Times listed as the ninth biggest outside spending group against the president in 2012.
The first two questions were demographic,...
Nearly three quarters of a century ago, the first bomb exploded in the desert a short drive from Las Vegas, heralding hundreds of more, complete with mushroom clouds and manifest toxicity for those downwind before the tests went underground.
A mere quarter-century ago, in the soon-to-be-dubbed Screw Nevada Bill, Congress designated Nevada as the lone site to be studied for a nuclear waste repository, not far from where all those detonations had taken place.
And from that moment forward, Nevada...
Dale Erquiaga left Nevada after being an adviser to the Clark County School District.
But, like many before, he missed the place. Now he's got an even bigger education job.
As I told you weeks ago, his relationship with Gov. Brian Sandoval, whom he also advised, made him the odds-on favorite to be state superintendent. And it became official today as Erquiaga returns to replace the mercurial James Guthrie, who went off the Team Sandoval reservation before being told he was no longer welcome....
Earlier today, The Washington Post’s liberal blogger, Greg Sargent, seemed quite excited by Rep. Joe Heck’s pro-immigration reform remarks at a SXSW panel in Las Vegas.
But I am one of those Sargent describes who “will probably dismiss the significance of this, since Heck represents a district that went for Obama in 2012.” Yes, and for other reasons, too, including: He's said it before. And to The Washington Post!
But there's more:
►Sargent is right that this is less interesting because Heck is...
Adam Laxalt, the grandson of the former senator and whose mother recently revealed is the son of ex-Sen. Pete Domenici, has been approached about running for attorney general.
"A number of different people have approached me to encourage me to run (or at least look at the race) but that is all," Laxalt, whose mother is Paul Laxalt's daughter, Michelle, told me via email. " I must say that running for attorney general was definitely not on my radar when this occurred. With a new baby and a...