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Majestic letter to UNLV reflects surprise, latent anger
You may have read this story in the Las Vegas Sun about Majestic Realty and UNLV going separate ways on the stadium project. But UNLV only put out a news release late Wednesday after receiving a pretty brutal letter from Majestic's Craig Cavileer, which I have attached here, asking President Neal Smatresk to reconsider its decision. Hard to see how this project gets done now, but Don Snyder is the reverse David Copperfield of megaprojects: He seems to make them appear.
Brooks will be expelled, but opaque process, human toll will be remembered
In the end, or at least near the end, the volatile, scary and sad story of Steven Brooks came to an all-too predictable conclusion.
Brooks: Arrest speaker, majority leader
 During a brief conversation this morning -- a follow-up to a 1:54 AM text -- Assemblyman Steven Brooks told me he wants Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick and Majority Leader William Horne not only barred from tonight's hearing on his fitness, but also arrested. Brooks said he is having a noon press conference at the Grant Sawyer Building in Las Vegas. Bizarrely, he said the two Assembly leaders -- Horne chairs the select committee -- are guilty of the same crime as this man.
What the election sports book might look like
So the scenery-chewing Tick Segerblom, the state senator not satisfied with pot expansion and portable legislating, also is considering legalizing bets on federal (and maybe state) elections. Segerblom's bill draft, which is attached here, is specific to federal election betting. But he told Politico that he may consider betting on state elections as well. Imagine what the sports book might look like: 2014
Bloomberg's anti-gun group starts huge buy Tuesday to pressure Heller
 Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which is funded by New York's Michael Bloomberg, begins a statewide ad campaign Tuesday designed to induce Sen. Dean Heller to soften on guns. I doubt it will work -- Heller is not up until 2018, and despite his metamorphosis on other issues, I don't see him morphing much on guns. But the group is spending a small fortune for a buy through April 6 for ads personalized for Heller that look like this.
Legislature provides steps to screwing up an expulsion
UPDATED BELOW AT 6:55 PM I have long believed that lawmakers -- or the vast majority of them -- want Assemblyman Steven Brooks expelled.
Steve Ross opponent: Cease and desist lies
UPDATE: I have posted Ross' reply here, too. The gist: Pound sand. You know the end of the campaign is near: Suzette LaGrange, who is challenging Las Vegas Councilman Steve Ross, has sent a cease and desist letter to him because of accusations made in a series of mailers. The letter, attached here, demands Ross stop saying LaGrange was on the board of Nevada Association of Industrial and Office Properties when it advocated for toll roads.
Muni races will be decided by minuscule number of voters -- again
After eight days of early voting and mail balloting, a strikingly small number of voters are poised to decide two mayoral races and one key Las Vegas council race. If this doesn't make the case for even-numbered muni elections (still the Legislature gently sleeps), I don't know what does: â–ºNorth Las Vegas mayor: 3,462, or 4 percent Overall turnout in 2009: 12.7 percent â–ºHenderson mayor: 6,976 Overall turnout in 2009: 14.7 percent, or 5 percent â–ºLas Vegas City Council, Ward 6 (Steve Ross): 1,904, or 4 percent
Expert opposes involuntary commitment bill -- and so does Steven Brooks
 After Steven Brooks was taken for a mental health evaluation in January when police found him brandishing a sword at a relative's home, his colleagues began considering legislation to reform the so-called Legal 2000 process. One of the results was Assembly Bill 287, which defines how involuntary commitments would work.
Trial featuring Adelson testimony will be webcast
 If you want to see Gondolier Numero Uno Sheldon Adelson's testimony in that breach of contract lawsuit by a former Sands consultant, you can. Seems a C-SPAN-like courtroom network will be webcasting the trial that begins April 3. Here's an email that went out from Courtroom View Network about the decision by Judge Rob Bare to lawyers in the case: