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Good morning, everyone. Sorry this is late, dear Flashees. (I’m excising a couple of regular features to get this to you before I alight in The Great White North.) I began the morning at a place that is going to become all-too familiar during the next 120 days (plus special session (s)) – McCarran International Airport. It’s early AM as I rush to get this done for you, dear Flashees, as today is the first day of the rest of our legislative lives. If only it were the 777th session and not the...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: School choice debate.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 741
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 3
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 174
Good morning, everyone. ICYMI, last night I broke the news on “Ralston Reports” of plans for a select committee in Carson City to investigate Steven Brooks. It will have broad powers and the ability to appoint a special counsel...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Clark GOP Chairwoman Cindy Lake, others on gun control.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 740
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 4
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 175
Good morning, everyone. Please indulge me (again, still) as my friends at the “newspaper” in a mendacious editorial this morningcalled for Steven Brooks to resign. I don’t argue with that,...
Good morning, everyone. I’m not sure how many of you heard Florida Sen. Marco Rubio wonder why President Obama went to Las Vegas to make his immigration announcement. “The Last Word’s” Lawrence O’Donnell picked up on it, too, and asked me about it last night. Rubio’s ring-kissing and attempt to genuflect to conservatives while being part of the solution is an act of political gymnastics that could twist him into quite the painful pose.
Not much new on the Steven Brooks front, except for the...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We will have reaction to the president's speech from national, local leaders.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 738
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 6
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 177
Good morning, everyone. Las Vegas, once thought of as that most aberrant of cities, is the center of the political universe (again) today, an exemplar of the country’s changing...
Good morning, everyone. As I have said, the Steven Brooks tale has degenerated from scary spectacle to sad story. But the inexorable politics also dictate that Brooks has a decision to make as he undergoes treatment at Seven Hills: Will he agree to resign or at least not show up in Carson City a week from today? If he gets out of the treatment facility and tries to participate, you can be sure lawmakers will act not to seat him. That is a given, and the GOP will join (see Minority Leader Pat...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Rep. Joe Heck.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 734
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 10
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 181
Good morning, everyone. I told you Thursday that something unpredictable would happen in the Steven Brooks story later that day, and it did: A stunning interview with Brooks by Ben Spillman, who covered the Legislature in 2011 and now...
Good morning, everyone. Assemblyman Steven Brooks made a bizarre odyssey Wednesday to Carson City and back – almost as quickly as those of us (ok, me) made the North-South trek for his non-press conference Tuesday. The whole hoodie/cane/wheelchair/iPad covering face (why WAS he trying to hide his face?) just adds to the bizarre nature of this story, which even has longtime Nevadans who have seen it all realizing they have not seen it all. You can see video of Brooks’ arrival back home here (...
Good morning, everyone. I have returned from The Great White North after flying there for Assemblyman Steven Brooks’ news conference that did not occur. The faces on my colleagues in the Fourth Estate (there were about a dozen of us waiting) were priceless, although none of them had to drive back to Reno to fly home. Five hours in Northern Nevada, feeling so unfulfilled and-----cold. Will Brooks have his news conference today? Would anything in this story surprise at this point? (More below...
Good morning, everyone. Just where I wanted to be at 5 AM – McCarran. Yes, as I write this, I am at the airport (and soon will be pecking away on the plane and annoying everyone with my loud typing) to fly to The Great White North for the can’t-miss Steven Brooks presser this morning – and he has agreed (keep your fingers crossed) to be on the program tonight with his attorney, Mitchell Posin. Just when you think you have seen it all in the world of Nevada politics, this happens. (So just a...