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TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Sex trafficking: Exaggerated or not?
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 24
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 122
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 270
Good morning, everyone. I need to get out to rural Nevada more often, but tonight, of all nights, I really wish I could be in Elko. It feels like October already, with the clash between Sue Lowden and Mark Hutchison at the Lincoln Day event, and...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: State Supe Dale Erquiaga
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 26
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 123
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 271
Good morning, everyone. Last night on “Ralston Reports” (link below), we had the first of what I hope will be many debates on the most important item on the November ballot: the margin tax. It was spirited and engaging, although I thought the reps for each...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: The first margin tax debate!
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 27
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 124
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 272
Good morning, everyone. It’s rare to witness a ritualistic suicide carried out publicly, but the Michael McDonald-led state GOP’s slow, painful (for the candidates) hara kiri is something to behold. McDonald’s idiotic decision to have an...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: New UNLV President Don Snyder
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 28
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 126
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 273
Good morning, everyone. It’s an off-year, there’s no Senate or presidential race to fret about and yet, yet: It seems nuts already. The first TV ad of the season in February? The first constitutional officer debate on Friday? A governor’s race that is...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: The PERS debate continues
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 29
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 127
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 274
Good morning, everyone. In memory of the sudden and tragic loss of the great Philip Seymour Hoffman, last night I watched “The Master,” which again showcased his remarkable talent. (The movie is not as good as the performances by Hoffmann and Joaquin...
Good morning, everyone. News came early this morning of robust gaming numbers for December: 9.6 percent increase in statewide win, 13 percent on the Strip. The biggest jump was nearly 25 percent in North Las Vegas: The John Lee Recovery is working!
It is still a tale of two states, though. Washoe and Reno numbers were weak – down just under a percent. Rural numbers also showed small losses. Yes, Clark County carries the state, the proverbial economic engine. But these stark disparities are...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: EMILY's List boss Stephanie Schriock
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 32
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 131
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 278
Good morning, everyone. The news broken by the intrepid Ray Hagar that Sue Wagner is leaving the GOP should not be ignored. Wagner, like the iconic, late Barbara Vucanovich, clearly has grown more disgusted with the know-nothing wing of the GOP...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 33
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 132
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 279
Good morning, everyone. Maybe I’ve grown inured – it is possible. But I found last night’s State of the Union much like previous ones – a long laundry list of items, most of them small, many going nowhere, with little memorable rhetoric and soon...
Good morning, everyone. Is there anything that better encapsulates the obnoxious “No Labels” movement, which seeks to leech ideological beliefs from people and replace it with bland nostrums, than the practice of Democrats and Republicans sitting together during the State of the Union? This purely symbolic and ephemeral act is so insipid and meaningless., showing a false front to the American public, a superficial act instead of a substantive one.
I’m not surprised that Sen. Dean Heller, R-No...
Good morning, everyone. I watched “Mitt” last night on Netflix and can’t recommend it highly enough for many reasons. The documentary of the two-time presidential candidate has a fly-on-the-wall feel to it that is unmatched in any previous political doc I have seen, at least in its ability to capture a side of Mitt Romney many never saw as the automaton-like presidential candidate dominates our experience. Many of the reviews have talked about how it “humanizes” Romney, which, of course, it...