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Good morning, everyone. Let’s try not to get all emotional about how much you’ve missed me. It’s enough that I know. And I have missed all of you, too, more than I can express. So enough with the tearful reunions and----back to business. It’s post Labor Day, so Campaign ’14 officially has begun!
I feel like the soap opera watcher who misses a couple of weeks and comes back to find----nothing much has changed. Well, almost nothing. Yes, the inevitable deflation of the Ricki Barlow for...
Good morning, everyone. Is it me or has August been much busier than it should be for late summer of an off year? Or maybe I am simply consumed by things nobody else cares about – i.e. horse tripping? It’s so busy I almost feel guilty about leaving you, my dear Flashees, until after Labor Day. Yes, this is the last MorningFlash (I’ll have some news for you later this morning but today is it!) until Sept. 3. I need a break so I can be my usual, sunny self when campaign season REALLY begins.
As...
Good morning, everyone. So the unions in North Las Vegas completed their coup – can we call THIS a coup? – with Mayor John Lee sending out one of the more comical news releases I have ever seen: “MAYOR JOHN J. LEE THANKS CITY MANAGER TIM HACKER FOR HIS SERVICE DURING CRITICAL TIME IN CITY’S HISTORY” This was the headline announcing Hacker’s departure. And check out Hacker’s quote in the release, which included him saying “after considering the regional and state variables outside of my...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 201
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 303
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 450
Good morning, everyone. I have a confession: The sixth annual National Clean Energy Summit, a k a the Harry Reid Annual Funeral for Coal, was my first. I stayed for a half-day, but that was enough. I got the message: EVERYONE loves renewables. The Mandalay Bay room was...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Caught between animal activists and Hispanic activists: Latest Clark County Commission controversy.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 202
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 304
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 451
Good morning, everyone. As you surely know, the National Clean Energy Summit 6.0 occurs today at Mandalay Bay, with two cabinet secretaries, a former movie star who was governor and...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 203
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 305
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 452
Good morning, everyone. “Breaking Bad” is back, and all is right with the world. Walter White and his supporting cast never disappoint. “The Newsroom is still on, and, well, it is still a Sorkinesque disaster. He seems to think...
Good morning, everyone. You know how I hate to criticize the newspapers in our fair state. But consider this: A new organization has formed that requested 14,000 voter registration forms and is being partly funded by the number one GOP donor in the world, and neither the Sun nor the “newspaper” has picked up on it. I guess it’s just a blogger’s thing.
I actually understand that there are more important stories out there, including the one leading the Sun’s site today: “World’s oldest hip-hop...
Good morning, everyone. I realized something after I interviews the Bunce Brothers last night on “Ralston Reports” and that is: Neither knows anything about the state budget. And then I realized something else: neither do most legislative candidates. Oh, and too many who actually “serve” up there. They offered up the shibboleths of “cutting waste” and “more efficient government,” but specifics were as rare as a William Jennings Bryan-like speech in Carson City. (Actually, maybe Michael...
Good morning, everyone. So I paid a visit to my doc Tuesday for a routine checkup (all good, dear Flashees), and I noticed something that made me smile. My physician is a partner of Larry Lehrner, who is ex-Rep. Shelley Berkley’s husband. And guess who has moved into the same office complex? The Nevada Republican Party. This reminds me of that ad with the guy who is one question behind (bad Internet connection). If the state GOP wanted to spy on Lehrner, it should have moved in about two years...
Good morning, everyone. How did Bob Woodward miss the biggest media story of the new millennium? It was right under his nose! I wonder if we can soon put “Chat with Bob Woodward” in our Amazon shopping cart? Do Prime customers get Deep Throat anecdotes, too? Why did this happen? Simple: Follow the money.
The sale naturally makes me wonder about papers here in Nevada. I think, in order, the newspapers most likely to be sold are:
The Sun
The “newspaper”
The RGJ.
I wonder what the pricetag would...