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Reversing a 1994 position, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in a speech tinged with anger and passion, announced Wednesday he would vote for an assault weapons ban.
UPDATED: Video embedded here, remarks below:
Here are his remarks:
Today the United States Senate will honor the memory of 20 first graders and six of their teachers who were killed last year in Newtown, Connecticut – as well as tens of thousands of others who are killed by guns each year – by voting on a number of measures...
Before Tuesday’s meeting began, Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak sat down with his colleague Tom Collins.
Collins has been antagonistic toward Sisolak for months, excoriating him for taking on unions and sneering that Gov. Brian Sandoval is “more of a Democrat” than the chairman. I get the sense that Sisolak considers Collins a buffoonish but less-than-prickly thorn whose behavior has grown increasingly erratic.
To say there is no love lost would be an understatement; there...
Here are the first-quarter totals for Nevada's four congressional reps:
Joe Heck
Raised: $169,000
Spent: $108,000
COH: $293,000
Mark Amodei
Raised: $25,000
Spent: $43,000
COH: $170,000
Dina Titus
Raised: $88,000
Spent: $62,000
COH: $80,000
Steven Horsford
Raised: $173,000
Spent: $153,000
COH: $31,622
The sun never sets in Carson City, and yet there is so little illumination.
Nearly 13 months to the day that Gov. Brian Sandoval signaled he wanted to spend more than the state’s economic forecasters believed would be available – i.e. making sure so-called tax sunsets would not occur -- his administration presented the actual legislation to lawmakers on Monday.
Call it a tax increase or call it a tax extension – Sandoval has been on both sides of that argument. But during a brief Senate Finance...
After meeting with candidates to replace Steven Brooks, expelled by the Assembly, Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick has written to Clark County commissioners to recommend two of them as possibilites: Tyrone Thompson and Meli Pulido.
Thompson, who works for the county, and Pulido, who used to work for the city of Las Vegas, were among nine candidates who were seeking the appointment, which the commission is scheduled to make Tuesday.
Kirkpatrick wrote (letter attached here) there were "only two...
Welcome to The Weekly Report.
This week:
1. NV Energy’s gambit
2. Construction defects chances, bills to watch
3. Some federal campaign disclosure nuggets
As usual, my insiders have insight you can’t find anywhere else about what’s really going on in Carson City. The questions I asked this week were:
1. What prominent, controversial bills that stayed alive as of the Friday deadline will pass both houses? Which ones will die? Reasons?
2. Will the NV Energy bill pass and be signed by the governor...