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Pelosi to Vegas, will host fundraiser during Reid's energy summit

Attendees at the 6th annual Clean Energy Summit a week from Tuesday can walk into another room at lunch and visit House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. But bring a check. Pelosi will also be at Mandalay Bay while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his friends tout solar power. Pelosi will be there to raise money for Nevada hopeful Erin Bilbray, running against Rep. Joe Heck, and for Rep. Steven Horsford.

VIDEO: Lowden and her baggage of debt

A three-way GOP civil war coming?

Amid efforts to anoint state Sen. Mark Hutchison for lieutenant governor, factions inside the always entertaining Nevada Republican Party are threatening to strike back against the GOP empire.

Gaming CEOs go to DC, potential change in web poker position possible?

Gaming executives were in DC this week meeting with congressional leaders, and one piublication speculated a change in the American Gaming Association's web poker position may be coming.

Lowden still owes $500,000 from her Senate campaign

Talk about chickens coming home to roost: Sue Lowden, the former lawmaker who announced this week that she may run for lieutenant governor, is paying off a gigantic debt in tiny increments to vendors from her failed 2010 Senate bid.

Sandoval won't attend Reid's energy confab

Turns out potential 2016 Senate candidate Brian Sandoval will not be at potential 2016 Senate candidate Harry Reid's clean energy summit later this month.

Sisolak withdraws information request to RTC after agency head sends corrected jobs number

In a rather unusual exchange of letters, Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak requested information, including emails, from the Regional Transportation Commission, then withdrew the demand after receiving a "Letter of Correction" from agency boss Tina Quigley.

Welcome to the party, Carl

State Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson has a message for his newly minted primary foe, Carl Bunce: I'll have all the money. It's nothing Bunce, the head of Ron Paul's Nevada organization, didn't know. But the statement Roberson is making with the fundraiser invite below is inescapable. He has every major business interest, including a mining lobbyist or two. on the list. Mining? The industry he tried to tax? No permanent friends, no permanent enemies. (I still think mining will try to take him out, but for now....) Message sent.  

No mystery what the state's mental health crisis is really about: money

Lost in the Sandoval administration dithering and stiff-arming and the Democrats’ hyperventilating and frothing  is the truth about what’s really causing the deficiencies at the Rawson-Neal psychiatric facility: It’s the money, stupid. Mostly, that is.

Lowden: I'm exploring, and I'm no chicken

A few days after her supporters successfully pushed a ridiculous poll into the media, ex-GOP Chairwoman Sue Lowden says she may run for lieutenant governor.