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Welcome to this holiday season edition of The Weekly Report. There will be one more before the new year, two weekends from now.
Today I feature my choices for the Top 10 Political Stories of 2012. Enjoy.
THE TOP 10 POLITICAL STORIES OF 2012
It’s always 10, the top 10, the 10 most, the 10 biggest.
When it comes to end-of-the-year lists – and that time has come – it’s often hard to find just 10, much less put them in the right order. But that is what I have done below (OK, I cheated with some...
I delivered this rant on "Ralston Reports" on Friday -- the video is elsewhere on the site, a couple of minutes into the program:
April Mastroluca’s resignation from the Assembly reinforces what I have long thought about our Carson City Gang of 63:
It’s time to end the citizen Legislature in Nevada. And it’s time to end the biennial Legislature in Nevada.
If my sources are right, Mastroluca is leaving because she couldn’t afford to feed her family by sojourning in Carson City four months every...
First it was Gov. Brian Sandoval moving to the middle on immigration issues.
And now, just a few moments ago, the Senate Republicans, apparently kicking off their 2014 effort to retake the upper house (OK, I'm cynical), issued this release:
The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, with the support of Governor Brian Sandoval, announced this week that its policy would be to honor the employment authorization card granted to successful applicants under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (...
April Mastroluca, a Democratic assemblywoman poised to play a key role in the 2013 Legislature, will send a letter to Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday announcing her resignation.
The stunning move comes after the potential Ways and Means chairwoman decided, she says, that she could no longer serve because of what she described as family issues. She declined to elaborate, but she sounded shaken during a phone conversation.
I had been told by a couple of good sources that her employer, the national...
I understand that Hispanic advocates are ecstatic about the record turnout in Nevada this cycle, as much as 19 percent of the vote, according to exit polls.
Indeed, the Latino landslide for President Obama helped him easily win Nevada again. Exit polls showed Obama won Hispanics by 50 points or more, contributing to his more than 6 percentage point win here.
But America's Voice, a leading national group advocating for immigration reform went a bit too far in its post-election hype about Nevada...
In an email sent to employees today, one day after KSNV and the Review-Journal reported on a management shakeup, Paul Hamilton, overseeing the Greenspun family finances and now in firm control of the Las Vegas Sun, sent this to the newspaper's employees:
Last night, a story was circulated regarding changes in the management of the Greenspun companies. I would like to set the record straight on a couple of points.
First, the board’s recent actions regarding management of the Greenspun Media...
In what has become a familiar pattern, a court has swatted away failed congressional hopeful Danny Tarkanian's attempts to avoid paying any money toward a $17 million judgment against him and his family.
Tarkanian staved off filing bankruptcy during his campaign in what was seen as an obvious move to preserve his electoral viability. But that may no longer be an option after a couple of court decisions this week -- the documents are attached here.
The first was the federal court in California's...