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Good morning, everyone. Unlike many people of my generation, I have no memory of where I was 50 years ago today when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I have tried to remember, but---nothing. Not even a vague recollection of shock or sadness from my parents. I was a young child, but somehow I feel like I should remember, should be more connected to that day. Beyond the reality and the mythology, though, is a shared sense of loss of something – if not innocence, which I think is too cliché and...
Good morning, everyone. Thanks to Sheldon Adelson, web gaming exploded into the national news starting Wednesday, with an absolute evisceration in USA Today followed by new AGA chief Geoff Freeman’s contrary view. Don’t underestimate Adelson’s commitment on this issue: Two of his top operatives, Andy Abboud and Robert Uithoven, are in Arizona at the Republican Governor’s Association, handing out anti-web gaming propaganda. I hear they are getting a good reception.
The great Chuck Todd focused...
I kept saying I never had any doubts how the case would turn out.
But I doubted. And I was afraid.
I knew that what John Bailey, the lawyer for ex-Gov. Kenny Guinn’s son, was trying to do was outrageous and unethical and wouldn’t be sanctioned in any other profession: Lying in court documents about a journalist’s integrity to smear her and chill her reporting. And I firmly believed that the state Supreme Court had opted to consider Bailey’s petition for extraordinary relief mostly to squash...
Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who last week talked about picketers being shot and how she would “hire thugs” if she were running the Cosmopolitan, said last month she carries weapons in gun-free zones, sneered at the governor for making the wrong GOP chairman choice and made an anatomically impossible reference to the chancellor, among other off-color and bizarre remarks.
Fiore, pictured at right with her close friend and Assembly hopeful Victoria Seaman, whom she touted in her speech to the...
Remember this case?
Despite an attempt by Jeff Guinn and his lawyers to tarnish journalist Dana Gentry's reputation with a "when did you stop beating your wife?" type of inquiry, the state Supreme Court has quashed the attempt and in so doing likely strengthened Nevada's shield law.
The decision is attached.
So what will high-profile Nevadans be giving thanks for on Thursday? I happen to know:
►Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: For John Boehner’s Tea Party anarchists. For Sharron Angle (never stop thanking God for her). For being able to interview political editor candidates at the Las Vegas Sun.
►Sen. Dean Heller: For re-election being five years away. For No Labels, so no real permanent positions. For his ultra-professional staff.
►Rep. Steven Horsford: For modern medicine. For North Las Vegas’...