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Good morning, everyone. Just a quickie this morning, dear Flashees, as I prepare to fly back to Vegas the day after the earth moved (actually it is still moving at Lance Gilman’s place, and I don’t mean one of his brothels). In 30 years in Nevada, I’m not sure I recall an event quite like Thursday’s, when the Capitol teemed with people who wanted to hear about the Tesla announcement or wanted to be seen hearing about the Tesla announcement. It took a long time to get to that moment when Gov....
Good morning, everyone. It’s hard to judge any enterprise from the first installment, whether it’s “Breaking Bad” or “Orange is the New Black” or----“Meet the Press, the Chuck Todd Era.” And it’s always good to have the president as your first guest. Todd asked some good questions, and I really liked how he broke it up to have each subject placed in context by experts. And having BuzzFeed’s John Stanton and Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter on shows Todd knows who knows stuff. Good luck to a...
Good morning, everyone. T-minus six or seven hours until the governor releases the special session proclamation, declaring it will start at noon Wednesday. Lawmakers are scrambling to raise money (GIVE ME MONEY BEFORE MIDNIGHT!) while also reaching out to constituents to get their “input” even though, as I have said,, very few will vote against the Tesla deal. As they do their Frasier Crane impressions to their voters (“I’m listening”), the policy folks (hello, MK) will prepare to publicly vet...
Good morning, everyone. Will it be like when JFK was shot or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon? I will always remember where I was when I learned of the Tesla decision. I was having coffee at my favorite Summerlin Starbucks with Dina Titus aide Caitlin Teare when I got the text. Lawmakers had just been briefed on the news, and the Carson sieve was leaking. (Thank goodness.) I rudely interrupted the conversation with Teare, texted a few folks, made a call or two and confirmed and put it out at ...
Good morning, everyone. If this were happening in Boston, in New York City, in Los Angeles, in Seattle, it would be a major scandal. But when academic freedom is threatened on a university campus here, it is ignored by both newspapers (or close to it). So the gaming/business community directs what happens on campus and can indirectly pressure professors, and all the “newspaper” can muster is the weak sauce of its FIRST story about any of this on Wednesday. What kind of outlet ignores the study...
One of the best things about Nevada's 150th is an upcoming portrait of state luminaries in period garb by artist Steve Saylor.
I got a sneak peek and was able to take two shots, as you will see below.
That's Ron James, Sen. Dean Heller, Gov. Bob List (eyes closed), Gov. Bob Miller, first Lady Dawn Gibbons, first Lady Dema Guinn and Rep. Mark Amodei.
In this one, Sen. Paul Laxalt, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, John Wingfield, Carradine de Gasparilla, Gov./Sen. Richard Bryan and Gov....
Led by a former governor and lieutenant governor, as well as a Las Vegas Sands operative and three ex-state senators, conservatives are rallying next week in a pair of fundraisers to help attorney general hopeful Adam Laxalt.
Ex-Gov. Bob List and former Lt. Gov. Lorraine Hunt will headline one event Tuesday at the latter's restaurant, The Bootlegger, while Las Vegas Councilman Bob Beers, one of those ex-senators, will host one at Mundo in downtown Las Vegas two days later.
The List/Hunt event...
I have been saying for some time that the amount of money spent in the three state Senate districts that will determine the majority in 2015 will be astronomical.
And at the end of August, the Senate Republicans ensured it will be even larger by setting up two new political action committees on the same day.
Actually, both were set up on Aug. 28 by Jodi Stephens, the crack operative who runs the caucus. Stephens jokingly called herself an "interested citizen" in confirming she registered the...
Here's the report issued today on the Tesla deal by Moody's, which sees the deal as a benefit to governments but dlayed and/or mitigated by the abatements:
Credit implications of current events
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Nevada State and Local Governments Would Benefit from Planned Tesla Factory
On Thursday, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval announced that the state had reached an agreement with
Tesla Motors (unrated) for the electric car manufacturer to build its lithium ion battery factory, known as ...