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Mexican rodeo community backlash forces commissioners to reconsider horse tripping item
It's bad enough for politicians having to deal with animal activists. But what happens when you placate them but infuriate representatives of a key demographic? Trouble, that's what.
Heller follows up with DOE secretary, wants evidence of memos and more
As I have previously reported in detail, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz made some startling claims during a hearing before the Senate Energy Committee, saying the state essentially had signed off on waste shipments. No one has yet produced the memos he talked about, as I told you. I have been rebuffed by the DOE, which has declined to comment on whether the memos exist after Moniz said they did in an open hearing.
Clark County Commission: Where promises are made to be broken
Cowardice on Clark County Commission not a new thing
In 1997, Clark County commissioners told state lawmakers they unanimously embraced a plan to raise sales taxes to pay for water system infrastructure. After much wrangling, and a message from Gov. Bob Miller that he would not sign the tax if it were imposed by the Legislature, legislators enabled the locals to raise the tax they said they supported.
Columbia Journalism Review looks at media coverage of Nic Cage bill
Columbia Journalism Review, a respected trade publication, has published an examination of the Nevada media's coverage of the film tax credit bill. The piece features interviews with journalists who covered the measure, inluding the Sun's Anjeanette Damon, the "newspaper's" Sean Whaley and yours truly. Some highlights:
GOP operative, partly funded by Adelson, sets up nonprofit to register voters
Much has been made -- especially by me -- of how much the Democratic voter registration edge matters in Nevada. It is still close to 100,000 voters, and GOP operatives know they must close the gap or risk losing races they should have won or sweating out ones that should be locks (hello, Gov. Brian Sandoval).
Sandoval, Moniz to meet Aug. 13 in Las Vegas
UPDATED BELOW SEVERAL TIMES: Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will meet with Gov. Brian Sandoval on Aug. 13 in Las Vegas, sources confirmed. Moniz will be in Nevada for the National Clean Energy Summit, which officials there originally believed the governor would attend but now realize he will not. But, it now turns out, he has to be in Las Vegas that day to meet with the secretary.
Two senators, governor write letters on behalf of Buffett, NV Energy to federal regulators
A letter from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to federal regulators, appearing to tell them to expedite Warren Buffett's purchase of NV Energy, raises questions -- and not just his use of "impact" as a verb. Reid's July 23 communication with federal regulators precedes last week's letters from Sen. Dean Heller and Gov. Brian Sandoval on behalf of the state's utility monopoly, just in case those folks didn't know that NV Energy and Buffett had friends in high places.
Bipartisan group of lawmakers on new PAC
You may have heard about how state Sens. Tick Segerblom and Greg Brower are heading up a new PAC to advocate for a new Court of Appeals in Nevada. But that bipartisan duo is joined by 11 other lawmakers (seven Democrats and four Republicans) on the PAC filing documents (attached here). If only it were this easy to get Democrats to take a stand on the margins tax....