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Good morning, everyone. I don’t know how many of you watched the all-too familiar events unfold in Ferguson last night, but I was struck about the feelings of despair and resignation I felt. To watch an American city again be rocked by militarized police and rowdy protesters, some egged on by outside agitators, was deeply disturbing. And it’s hard to say what could possibly make the Groundhog Day nature of it end.
Some say arresting the police officer who...
Good morning, everyone. UNLV must be so proud. Looking for a president, trying to build a stadium and lavishing a a contract fit for a Strip headliner on Hillary Clinton. As if that $225,000 speaking fee weren’t enough of an embarrassment, or that it is being sponsored by all of the moneyed interests in the state, this contract has become a national story. She’s a woman of the people, all right. More later, although not much, I’d guess, in the Las Vegas Sun.
After Laura Myers posted her...
Good morning, everyone. So the news came out that UNLV football will play Ohio State in Columbus in 2017. This is huge political news many have missed. Buckeye Brian Sandoval will have to make a choice: Support his alma mater and reveal himself, once and for all, to be The Northern Governor, or show he loves the South, too. But, to be fair, I may be wrong. By the time this game occurs, he may be The Northern Senator.
Note: There will be no premium “Ralston Reports” content this weekend. I am...
UPDATED WITH STUDY ATTACHED HERE, 11:15 AM
After being pummeled by doomsday scenarios from foes, The Education Initiative folks commissioned a study from UNLV that indicates significant economic benefits from the so-called margin tax.
The study, expected to be released this week, says, according to those who have seen it:
►TEI actually will increase economic activity and create jobs, including as many as 13,000 in 2016 and 10,400 jobs in 2017.
►The positive impacts from new government ...
CD3 hopeful Erin Bilbray met with the Clark County Education Association today and told them her position on The Education Initiative:
"We have put teachers and parents backs up against the wall. We need to do something to get more resources but the language is far from perfect and the tax is too high."
I naturally assumed that meant she is against it because she thinks the 2 percent rate is too high and it's a mess. Why vote for a tax if you think the rate is too high and it's poorly...
I was thinking about what headline would most infuriate Harry Reid, and it is this one: “Koch Brothers celebrate majority leader’s decision to retire.”
That thought occurred to me after two of POLITICO's finest, Ken Vogel and Burgess Everett, considered the question of the Koch Brothers’ Newtonian reaction to Reid’s obsessive crusade against the Kansas billionaires.
The POLITICO headline, “The Kochs' plan to beat Harry Reid,” probably evoked the same reaction from Reid as it did from me: A...