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TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Trying for program on mental health.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 776
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 87
DAYS UNTIL LAWMAKERS PUNT ON THE MARGINS TAX: 7
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 139
Good morning, everyone. So when the Nevada jobs report comes out in a few days, will it be as sunny as the national one? The gaming taxes collected in...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: A plan to use eminent domain to deal with the foreclosure crisis.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 775
DAYS UNTIL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ENDS: 89
DAYS UNTIL LAWMAKERS PUNT ON THE MARGINS TAX: 9
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 140
Good morning, everyone. I watched part of Rand Paul’s historic filibuster Wednesday and tried to imagine a similar scene in...
Good morning, everyone. That was some tax day in the capital on Tuesday. Who would have guessed the margins tax hearing would be an anticlimax after the Senate GOP shocker? The three-hour hearing produced little new of substance, many apocalyptic admonitions from foes and changed not one vote, I’d guess. If there is indeed a vote within the next 10 days. (That sound you hear is of knees knocking.) NSEA boss Lynn Warne acknowledged right away on “Ralston Reports” (link below) that the hearing on...
Good morning, everyone. Back to the future. I’m not sure there is a better description for the stunning development that Genting will spend up to $7 billion on the Strip to build a new megaresort. The money had been going to Asia; now it’s coming here. Family-friendly was so 1990s; now it’s coming back. The northern Strip was so done; now it’s revitalized. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, as Gov. Brian Sandoval said. That’s an understatement. But if they build the pagodas, the Asians...
Good morning, everyone. Still recovering from that smashing Democratic win, 67-56 over the Republicans, the biennial donkey-elephant game in Reno at Lawlor. In what may be a preview of the ruthlessness needed to win high office, Dem overseer Ross Miller picked two spectacular ringers, former Stanford guard Lindy LaRocque and ex-Rebel/Globetrotter Warren Rosegreen, who scored about two-thirds of the Democratic points. Al Davis would be proud, SOS Miller.
The game was the warmup for the UNLV-UNR...
Good morning, everyone. As Maureen McGovern once sang, there’s got to be a morning after. And apparently there is, even after the financial tidal wave known as the sequester sweeps across the country. I don’t know about you, but I thank God I am alive. And just knowing that Gov. Brian Sandoval is optimistic is pretty much all I need.
Three posts on the site already this morning, dear Flashees. Yes, your favorite Flasher never sleeps, which is why, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid might say...
Good morning, everyone. This inside baseball DC spectacle of Bob Woodward vs. The White House will strike many as ridiculous, and not just because the emails released today make the legendary journalist seem a bit silly. So they have gone from arguing over the provenance of the sequester leaders of both parties supported to THIS? Really? Almost makes the Carson City silliness seem less----silly.
What amazes me is that anyone would believe a White House official would threaten Woodward in the...
Good morning, everyone. Just a quick one for you today, dear Flashees. Spending half the day in the North and half in the South as I try to keep apprised on doings in both ends of the state. Still haven’t opened that rural bureau of “Ralston Reports,” but looking at space in Elko----
Yesterday should have been a national day of mourning in America as the slow death of the English language in continued. Et tu, speaker? John Boehner telling the Senate to “get off their ass,” as I pointed out on...
Good morning, everyone. The Steven Brooks story just won’t go away, and I found some lawmakers still (understandably) nervous that he remains in Northern Nevada (and has been seen in Carson City). News that he cannot legally purchase a gun gave few any solace. Let’s face it, dear Flashees: If Brooks wants to get a gun, he will get one. And so he remains on the street, and people in the building remain on edge.
Today is the last day at the Las Vegas Sun for veteran capital reporter David McGrath...
Good morning, everyone. Sorry this is a tad late, dear Flashees, but with an Oscar hangover and travel to the capital, I am lucky to have this to you at all. But I persevere, like Ben Affleck, who talked about being down before he got up to win the Best Picture award for “Argo.” Although proportionality might be an issue for Affleck and the rest of the Tinseltown crowd – was he ever really down compared to most people? – I must say, despite the historical distortions, I enjoyed his move quite a...