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Good morning, everyone. Upon what meat doth our Caesar feed that he doth grow so great? Et tu, “newspaper”? When the Las Vegas Review-Journal can produce what amounts to a thumbsucking editorial that ends up with an endorsement of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Medicaid expansion decision, you know just how good he is. Is it hypnosis? That smile? The new RJ, which loves moderates and wayward pundits, too? I still can’t get over this “newspaper” headline, though, on the issue. Really? A politician said...
Good morning, everyone. I feel as if Lewis Carroll might still be writing books and is at work on one about Nevada. Just imagine a trip down the rabbit hole to find Nevada’s most prominent Republican elected official and most prominent Republican private citizen acting like----Democrats. Gov. Brian Sandoval, who went let the sun go down on taxes, now has expanded Medicaid and set up an Obamacare health exchange. And Sheldon Adelson is more socially liberal than most Democrats I know. What’s...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Tom Breitling and Mark Liparellis on web gaming.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 691
DAYS UNTIL THE STATE OF THE STATE: 36
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 55
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 226
Good morning, everyone. Two weeks until Christmas, 100 hours until the fiscal cliff (so Chuck Todd said this morning). Which is scarier to those of us who have not...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: The TI's Phil Ruffin joins us.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 690
DAYS UNTIL THE STATE OF THE STATE: 37
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 56
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 227
Good morning, everyone. Hard to believe it’s been a month since the election, isn’t it? Do you miss the ads? Or have you not seen the latest ones asking you to “call President Obama”...
In an assessment of the 2014 outlook for chief executives, Governing magazine finds 22 of 38 "not currently vulnerable."
Among those is our own Gov. Sunny, with this assessment from reporter Lou Jacobson:
Nevada, hard hit by the recession, turned strongly Democratic in the 2012 presidential race. Still, Sandoval seems to be defying gravity. One of the GOP's fresh Latino faces, Sandoval has crossover appeal; his approval ratings have been roughly 60 percent, meaning that a swath of Democrats and...
So the picture below is of Nevada's two senators taking part in a Chanukah celebration in Washington, DC.
The photo just cries out for a caption. Please help! The comments await.
A couple of suggestions from one wag:
"Harry - I did this with Sheldon last night"
"Harry - I bet you really miss Shelley right about now. Shalom!"
Mo Denis, who will be leading the Nevada Senate in less than two months, and his first cousin, Marco Rubio, who may be the de facto minority leader of the U.S. Senate next year, met today in the latter's DC office.
Maybe Denis gave Rubio advice on how to deal with hair loss.
Dean Heller 1.0 was this anti-Establishment secretary of state, proposing what he called "Election Day registration" to increase voter participation.
Dean Heller 2.0 was the super-conseravtive congressman and appointed U.S. senator, whose spokesman said ugly partisan politics prompted a Heller evolution that changed his position to opposing same-day registration.
Dean Heller 3.0 is the newly minted full-term senator, who is considering tax increases and immigration reform, but not....same-day...