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Northern and southern building trades groups are passing around a resolution at the AFL-CIO convention opposing The Education Initiative.
The resolution, attached here, says "until the effects of the Education Initiative are clearly defined we oppose the passage and implementation of the measure."
The text of the resolution emphasizes that the Legislature should make tax policy and that TEI "does not clearly address" the impact on businesses. The resolution essentially is an attack on the...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has informed the Federal Election Commission that buying gifts for supporters from his granddaughter fits within the agency's rules..
I missed the document when it was filed a month ago, but there's no mention in it of Reid reimbursing his campaign for the expenditures, which I disclosed on March 25. That same day, according to FEC records, attorney Marc Elias wrote to the FEC, saying the gifts comport with agency rules. The section cited is this one:
Gifts of...
Rep. Steven Horsford has asked Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie to look into persistent reports of militia members supporting Cliven Bundy making Bunkerville residents "feel unsafe."
Horsford penned a letter this weekend to the sheriff, outlining various concerns by residents he first disclosed last week.
The letter is attached.
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS:We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS FOR PRIMARY ELECTION: 26
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 43
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 190
Good morning, everyone. Here’s my movie tip for the week: If you did not see “The Way, Way Back,” check it out. Haven’t seen a sweet movie that good in some time. It’s funny and poignant, with some wonderful characterizations and Steve Carell in a rare...
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...