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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.
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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...
Democrats lost ground in key areas of Clark County last week when more than 14,000 voters were taken off the active rolls.
According to figures I have obtained from Clark County, here is some of what happened, including in those three key state Senate districts, all of which could be close:
►Senate District 8 (Patricia Farley vs. Marilyn Dondero Loop): GOP gained 100.
►Senate District 9 (Justin Jones vs. Becky Harris): GOP gained 149.
►Senate District 20 (Michael Roberson vs. Teresa Lowry): GOP...
The weekend disclosure of Hillary Clinton’s contract with UNLV reinforces just how far the school’s foundation was willing to genuflect (that’s flexibility!) to ensure she appeared at an Oct. 13 dinner.
The $225,000 fee was embarrassing enough for a school struggling with tuition increases and trying harder, it seems, to build a stadium than burnish its academic reputation. The school only made $70,000 (by its own accounting) a couple of years ago when it paid Hillary’s husband $250,000. My...