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Good morning, everyone. I was a little disappointed in Jon Stewart’s Bundy/racism take last night, only because it wasn’t long enough! He did say Bundy was becoming a black studies scholar at Duke University – David Duke university, that is. Stephen Colbert spent a lot more time on the latest, quite hilariously.
But there ain’t nothing like the real thing, and this morning on CNN, Bundy invoked Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks (as other geniuses such as Michele Fiore have in his honor...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Public lands and state vs. federal with NPRI's Geoff lawrence and (we hope) Assemblyman Ira Hansen.
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS FOR PRIMARY ELECTION: 30
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 47
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 196
Good morning, everyone. The words do not lose their force in the dawn: “I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro---they abort their young children---I’ve...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Clark County Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky.
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS FOR PRIMARY ELECTION: 31
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 48
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 197
Good morning, everyone. I don’t expect to retire anytime soon (don’t cheer too loudly), but I did hear something Tuesday that may change my mind. I’m told an interim legislative panel floated the idea (again) of allowing betting...
Good morning, everyone. I’m not sure whether it’s the apex or the nadir of my career, but last night, Sean Hannity let me have it. I’m not sure what I enjoyed more: Hannity’s folks playing the whole rant by me against his irresponsibility, his identifying me as from the Las Vegas Sun (um, not for almost two years) or Fiore saying I’m known as “Jonny Boy” in Nevada. It was as if SNL was doing a parody, except this one was hilarious. (By the way, I think ole Sean forgot I was his hero just a few...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Clark County Schools Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky.
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS FOR PRIMARY ELECTION: 33
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 50
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 199
Good morning, everyone. Not sure how many of you saw Anthony Bourdain’s Vegas episode last night. It was, as so many national looks at Vegas are, a letdown, replete with clichés and lacking much panache. He did visit two...
Time to get the name rec up in the sheriff's race and ensure the man with the money gets through the primary.
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. Three premium nuggets: Hutch and Bundy, mining campaign cometh and labor vs. the margin tax
2. The Weekly Insiders on Bundy story’s impact and med pot
3. Smartest/dumbest moves and coming campaign developments
A TRIO OF PREMIUM NUGGETS
Nugget No. 1 – Fun fact: After the BLM backed off rounding up Cliven Bundy’s two years ago, he was advised to find a good constitutional lawyer, perhaps making a water rights claim. So who did he meet with? None other...
Imagine hearing these words come out of the mouth of Sen. Dean Heller, who has called Cliven Bundy’s supporters “patriots” and who did not utter a critical word about the famous rancher until he began declaiming about the history of the “Negro” in America:
“Let me first say that I do not support those who do not comply with the law. Mr. Bundy has not paid grazing fees in over 20 years, and that is unacceptable, particularly considering the number of ranchers in Nevada who hold permits and pay...
So Waddie Mitchell, Nevada's honorary sesquicentennial poet, wrote a poem that might as well have been called "Ode to Cliven."
I have a response.