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The Las Vegas Review-Journal always planned to publish answers from decision-makers about the owner's stadium plan, despite an email that seemed to imply otherwise, an editor said Wednesday.
Managing Editor Glenn Cook was responding to a post in which I pointed out an email from one of his subordinates could be interpreted -- as some inside and outside the newspaper did – as using reporters to poll or even intimidate elected officials.
“We completely deny any allegation that our reporters are...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Will there be a special session before the election?
2. Ranking political spectacles
3. Who is the best politician in Nevada right now?
4. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
Some kudos — and deserved — for Sands getting this project so far down the road, but a majority say no special before the election, but I have a different view: How do you bet against a man who has a vertically integrated business, political and media powerhouse? Lots of kudos for...
Reporters for Sheldon Adelson's newspaper have been told to ask candidates if they support public money for the stadium proposed by the Las Vegas Sands chairman but that the Las Vegas Review-Journal will not actually publish the answers.
This astonishing request was made in a memo two weeks ago from Assistant City Editor Don Ham:
All of you who are handling state Senate, state Assembly and Clark County Commission races for the tab should make sure to ask this very timely question of the...
When Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence appeared in Henderson last week, a handful of protesters gathered outside the convention center.
I've obtained video of one backer of the GOP ticket who confronted them. Watch and worry:
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Revealing poll crosstabs
2. Are the Senate and WH races really that close here?
3. NV Energy’s derg neutrality: What’s going on?
4. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
One of my insiders this week echoed something I have been thinking about lately as I look beyond 2016 – don’t we all want to look beyond this annus horribilis? That is: Just how devastating to the Dems the 2014 red wave was for the future. Where’s the bench? Watch out in 2018…....