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This is the Sun op-ed I refer to below.
An overwhelming number of teachers union members support the margin tax, although the membership is only marginally aware of it, a new survey of members shows.
The survey, conducted by the union last week of 424 members and posted here, showed large numbers had not heard anything about the tax, whether it was called The Education Initiative (34 percent) or the margin tax (53 percent). Junkies sometimes forget it's not yet April, so maybe that's not too surprising.
But more than 80 percent of...
Here's the letter sent today:
The three amigos?
You’ve heard Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn are against online gambling. Now, Atlantis chief John Farahi has joined the chorus, telling me Tuesday that he is opposed to web gaming. How opposed?
“100 percent,” he said by phone. “1,000 percent.”
Farahi said he recently convened a meeting of gaming executives and invited, among others, Adelson lieutenant Andy Abboud, to talk about the threat of online gaming.
“Morally and for the health of our society, having gaming in people’s...
Update, 2:30PM: Reid will reimburse campaign: "I thought it would be nice to give supporters and staff thank-you gifts that had a personal connection and a Searchlight connection, but I have decided to reimburse the campaign for the amount of the expenditure.”
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The Federal Election Commission has sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's campaign, asking for more information on why he listed an expenditure of more than $11,000 $16,000 in "holiday gifts."
The gifts, I have...
Good morning, everyone. It’s very possible the state Republican Party, a k a The Only Thing That Can Save the Democrats in 2014, is not teachable. But if the so-called leaders were to glance at Texas on Tuesday, they will see what happens when primary challengers try to run to the right and call popular incumbents “liberal” or are backed by Sarah Palin and claim conservative bona fides: They lose. As the Nevada party enables similar primaries here, as the ventriloquists over at Citizen...
Good morning, everyone. I know the question that is on your mind this morning, dear Flashees: Who did I think was the best-dressed at last night’s Oscars? Well, that’s tougher than predicting who will control the state Senate in 2015, so I’ll stick to this: The right movie won, and the major awards were as predictable as they ever have been. Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar was deserved, even though his was the second-best performance in the film to Jared Leto. Relatively sedate Oscars show, but...
Good morning, everyone. We had an excellent discussion last night on “Ralston Reports” between two lawyers, Maggie McLetchie and Dan Stewart, on whether so-called religious freedom laws are needed. The link is below, but this is one of those issues that is neither legally simple nor politically obvious. I am sure some of you have seen the conservative backlash over the media’s coverage of the Arizona bill, which Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed and called a “solution in search of a problem.”
I was...
Good morning, everyone. As expected, Las Vegas made the cut as a finalist for the 2016 Republican National Convention. Indeed, there was no cut. Eight cities applied; eight cities are finalists. They are: Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Denver, Dallas, Kansas City, Las Vegas & Phoenix.
I see Dallas, with its facilities, as the main competition. We would win if this were a straight-up business proposition, as one insider told me recently. But this is a political decision, so I worry. But as...