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WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Think of a legislator from the past you greatly admired. Who was it? Now: Does anyone in 2017 remind you of that person?
3. We are a third of the way through. Predict what will be in the closing deal: ESAs, trial lawyer package, energy reform, pay raises for public employees, anything else?
4. Play political consultant to Adam Laxalt, Dean Heller or any other Republican statewide candidate: How would you...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. After four weeks, is it really any different than past sessions? Slow and boring to the naked eye? Or is there something more going on?
3. It's a quarter of the way through. Early, early awards for Best Committee Chair, Rising Star and Best Bill. Any other wards you wish to give out?
Lots of love from The Weekly Insiders for Julia Ratti – she is super-smart and analytical, so look out if she starts to...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. It's almost three weeks old -- any new thoughts on the Legislature? leaders? Non-leaders? Up and comers? Disappointments? Bills/issues to watch? Is it really THIS boring? Anything percolating?
3. Any long-term fallout from:
Red Rock vote
Heller and town halls/liberal group pounding
Sessions coming for pot
Lots of early kudos for the freshman class, especially Cancela, Tolles, Brooks and Yeager. But I am much more...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Your take on the Laxalt/Burnett story? Will there be fallout? Thoughts in general?
2. After two weeks of Session '17, what are your thoughts? Too early? Anything shaping up already? leadership -- yes or no?
Forgot to include Smartest/Dumbest Moves in the questions this week (one person remembered anyhow!) So I win dumbest move by a landslide with my addled memory. Good stuff and smart viewpoints on both of the main questions. To wit:
►Succinct, brutal...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Thoughts on Week One of the Legislature? Anything worth seeing as a harbinger?
3. Most to least likely
Aaron Ford is on a ballot in 2018
Michael Roberson is on a ballot in 2018
Kate Marshall is on a ballot in 2018
Danny Tarkanian is on a ballot in 2018
Some great stuff from my insiders, esepcially on Week One, showing (again) why this feature is such a good idea. They KNOW what's happening. Near-unanimous bad...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Is there really any fallout in the long run for Dean Heller's votes on the controversial Cabinet picks? Or is it much more likely they will be forgotten by next year, if not next month?
3. The Legislature begins Monday. Make one prediction that no one else will about something no one else has thought about..
4. As the session begins, your take on the key relationships:
Roberson-Ford
Anderson-Frierson
Frierson-Ford...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Trump’s first week
3. Any fallout from Sandoval taking on Trump on wall and Medicaid?
Interesting split among the insiders on the Michael Roberson/ESAs line in the sand. And interesting how a few insiders think Roberson was smart to bring Dan Muth in, but others feel the same way that I do about the dangers of allowing Chuck Burdish inside his tent. And lots more interesting stuff:
►Ha: Energy choice will be...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. State of the State grades.
3. Who are the happiest and saddest people coming into the session?
4. Rank from most likely to least likely:
Dean Heller votes against Mnuchin
ESAs get the full $60 million
Sandoval leaves before the end of his term
Harry Reid stays out of politics
Very smart stuff from my insiders, as ever. Mixed reviews of the State of the State that had nothing to do with partisanship or lobbying...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. State of the State predictions
2. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
Lots of great stuff from my insiders, as usual, on the State of the State. Mor einside info than anywhere else. Learn more about where the governor is as his last State of the State looms in The Nevada Independent on Tuesday.
Some other gems from my insiders:
►Gubernatorial candidate? First an ad campaign for office and this: Smartest: Laxalt came out with a Spanish video this week....
A month after the election, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, riding one of his longtime hobbyhorses, wrote to Assembly Speaker-in-Waiting Jason Frierson, asking him to expound on his experiences with unfunded mandates to the states from the federal government.
I don't think Frierson gave him the answer he was looking for.
In a forceful, detailed letter, Frierson went well beyond what Chaffetz had asked and listed "five critical federal issues that are cause for grave concern...