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Good morning, everyone. Michigan fans are happy (yes, moi) and Rebel fans (many of you) are sad this morning. UNLV’s first-round loss came after high hopes that began the season that something special might get done after a few months of excitement, only to be dashed by a familiar conclusion. A preview of Session ’13?
I am going to try my best to stay off the grid for the next few days, dear Flashees, to recharge my batteries and scream at the television during March Madness. Flash will return...
Good morning, everyone. If you are not excited about March Madness, you are 1. Not a sports fan. 2. Don’t know what you are missing. 3. Have no idea what I am talking about. Just so you know, as Michigan goes in the next fortnight, so goes my mood. So I advise all of you with elected titles to become Wolverine fans----
I still think it would be fun to create an all-time Nevada Politics bracket, with seedings, etc. (I may do this!). Imagine who gets to the Final Four, with the battle to be...
Good morning, everyone. If you are surprised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid killed the assault weapons ban, you have not followed his career. Reid has never been a fan of a ban. He also knows how to count votes and always wanted to protect his red-state members. And he knows how to take flack from the left, as he is once again. Only Reid, like the rest of us, knows how he was affected by Newtown. But we now know the answer is: Not enough to push hard for a quixotic cause, expose some of his...
Good morning, everyone. A horrible reminder of the horrors of war on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq conflict as six Marines are dead and eight injured after an early morningexplosion in Hawthorne. It’s easy for those of us who have never served to sit in the comfort of our ivory towers and criticize political decisions to go to war or to not go to war. But whether it’s fighting a murky war in the bog of the Middle East or engaging in dangerous military exercises in a remote...
Good morning, everyone. March Madness will soon begin, but does it tell you something about my ongoing sickness that I look forward more to May Madness, when state lawmakers try to wrap up the 77th session and avoid a special (s)? Maybe I ought to do brackets for May Madness, with various lawmakers and how they will fare vs. each other in May? There are just about the right number (63) for a tourney bracket. But the difference is: Who wins the right to lose to the governor in the championship...
Good morning, everyone. It’s the Ides of March, but it’s also Margins Tax Punt Day. State Senate Majority Leader Mo Denis isn’t in the capital (family funeral), but his folks put out a “let the people decide” statement and the other side, probably recovering from Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick’s birthday blowout bash, won’t do much of anything today, I’d guess. It’s irresponsible, cowardly and short-sighted. It’s the Nevada Legislature. (The only reasonable comment I heard came from state Sen....
Good morning, everyone. The Gang of 63 only has one more day to avoid the margins tax before getting on to more important avoidances. I hope someone – are you listening, NSEA? – puts every one of them on record on how they stand on the proposal. Why not just hold the vote and let it lose and go on the ballot? Might some of those brave souls be worried about actually having to take a stand on it? Why won’t the GOP leaders of each house stand up and demand a vote and see what the Democratic...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 781
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 82
DAYS UNTIL LAWMAKERS PUNT ON THE MARGINS TAX: 2
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 134
Good morning, everyone. I am still trying to recover from the darkness the Gang of 63 brought to Sunshine Week on Tuesday, chafing at good government proposals and ham-handedly trying...
Good morning, everyone. You don’t often see what the “newspaper” published in an updated post early Monday evening, with an astounding quote from ex-national BLM Director Bob Abbey about that lawsuit expected to be settled as early as thismorning. I will alter it because this is a family newsletter, but he said: "At the end of the day, I am hopeful the good citizens of Henderson will realize they have f---ing idiots working for them and that they will show up at the polls to elect officials who...
Good morning, everyone. Looking forward – yes, I said it! – to a few days in Carson City this week as I am now firmly convinced that the 77th may be much more interesting than I had imagined. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying the Gang of 63 will do anything visionary or even less than myopic. But the mining tax assault by Republicans (!) was an unpredictable development, so whop knows what could happen this week? Lawmakers vote to pass the margins tax? Well, let’s not get crazy. Yes, dear...