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The Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling on Monday sent a letter to all American Gaming Association members, invoking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and calling for Congress to call a "time-out" and restore the Wire Act of 1961 that effectively would ban the practice.
Forget how delicious it is that a Sheldon Adelson-backed group -- the letter is signed by the three ex-elected officials he hired as mouthpieces -- uses Reid to help make the case. The letter is followed by a sustained attack on...
Will the Democrats put another initiative on the ballot, and what will it be?
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Yes, minimum wage increase
32% (49 votes)
No
23% (35 votes)
Yes, declaring Harry Reid "King of the World"
22% (33 votes)
Yes, gun background checks
12% (18 votes)
Yes, emergency room rate cap
4% (7 votes)
Yes, same-day registration...
Welcome to the Weekly Report. This weeks's headlines:
Sheldon Adelson thinks the 2016 Republican National Convention is coming to Vegas, Beers may alight on Neptune and Lowden mixes her rurals. Also: Smartest/dumbest moves of the week and The Weekly Insiders on the LG's race, Beers for Senate, web gaming blowup and the GOP pre-primary endorsements.
Image of the week:
At the Humbault County Lincoln Day Luncheon in Battle Mountain w County Chair Alicia Price and Daxon Bakker pic.twitter.com/...
Rarely will voters be confronted with a more abysmal choice in November and on the most important contest on the ballot.
When it comes to the margin tax, Nevadans will have to choose between relying on a school-funding measure that was poorly constructed and could have deleterious effects on the economy and leaving the task in the hands of a dithering, invertebrate Gang of 64, a k a the governor and the Legislature.
This is not a lesser of two evils or pick your poison choice; this is asking...
The Guinn Center for Policy Priorities, whose goal is to be a moderate voice of analysis amid the usual political hysteria, has published its inaugural effort on the most incendiary political topic of the moment: The margin tax.
The center, named for the late governor who was known for trying to be a voice of reason on many issues, has prepared a detailed and generally dispassionate document explaining what the tax is and what it isn't. It is attached here.
But one conclusion -- that revenue...