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WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT This week: 1.  Exclusive look at registration numbers -- good but not great for Dems 2. The stadium endgame cometh -- or does it? 3. Senate race update -- it's super-close 4. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week My insiders pretty much think the stadium vote will happen soon in both venues, although a dissenter or two surfaced. Most think the Senate race is a toss-up, and some think it could be in recount territory. (It’s too early for that, but it is going to be...
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:

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