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Shortly before solar companies were poised to file signatures this week for a petition to undo a controversial regulatory decision, Gov. Brian Sandoval had a news release on his desk.
It announced an agreement between the solar companies and the state, one that would have allowed the rooftop customers to be grandfathered for 20 years at their current rates and in exchange the Bring Back Solar coalition would drop its initiative to undo a Public Utilities Commission decision to gradually...
This week:
1. Primary post-mortem
2. Breaking down the numbers in the race for the Legislature
3. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
Usually smart stuff from my insiders, including:
►This is interesting: Cortez Masto call for three debates was bush, and confusing. Why confusing? Her profile, Hispanic, woman, law enforcement is much better on paper than in person. The only reason to take this risk is, her campaign believes they will be financially overmatched by Heck. The risk is someone...
Sounding as if it is a fait accompli, Las Vegas Sands operative Andy Abboud said Thursday the public will kick in for half of a new stadium to host the Raiders, and the Legislature will have a special session in August to approve it.
"We think we will have a piece of legislation actually written next month, then we will then go into a special session of the Nevada Legislature the first week of August, and have this financing approved the first week of August," Abboud said on an Omaha, NE, radio...
UPDATED WITH KNECHT RESPONSE BELOW, 2:20 PM
If, as John Wooden once said, the true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching, Controller Ron Knecht revealed a lot in a recent response to a question from a constituent.
I have obtained the exchange, which reveals Knecht to be a pretentious, overbearing and arrogant boor, whose overreaction is simply appalling.
Leslie Gamble, who describes herself as a native Nevadan with two young children, asked the controller, who failed...
Since I am a fun guy to have at parties, when the Democrats held a "we are unfied" presser Wednesday, I decided to ask the federal candidates pounding Donald Trump about their own backing of a woman involved in an FBI probe.
This came after 20 minutes of a "news" conference bereft of any news. Democratic Chair Roberta Lange, Senate hopeful Catherine Cortez Masto, congressional contenders Jacky Rosen and Ruben Kihuen and legislative leaders Aaron Ford and Irene Bustamante-Adams hyped their...
One Nation, a Mitch McConnell-linked PAC, wasted no time after the primary trying to help Rep. Joe Heck win Harry Reid's Senate seat, laying down a $2.3 million buy.
The first ad, which you can see below, tries to tether Heck to popular Gov. Brian Sandoval, on veterans issues. The buy starts today and runs for a month in both urban markets.
One Nation showed last year it is poised to spend in Nevada.
And so it begins....
A sliver of the electorate will make decisions by the end of Tuesday that will shape the races for the fall.
Here's what to watch for as the returns come in, and check my Twitter feed (@ralstonreports) tonight for results:
1. Turnout will not be much more than 5 percent today and may be half that, if past is prologue (under 6 percent the last two cycles). Two-thirds of the votes likley have been cast before today. So in Clark County, where all but a couple of key races will take place, only a...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Primary predictions
2. Smartest/dumbest
As always, my insiders don’t let me down, providing pithy and insightful stuff. Near unanimity on Ruben Kihuen pulling it out but split on Tarkanian-Roberson. Most think Victoria Seaman will defeat Erv Nelson, but some went with Nelson. All think a few incumbents will lose, with P.K. O’Neill, Stephen Silberkraus and David Garnder named the most. (Some think Richard Carrillo is gone.) All say Marilyn Kirkpatrick...
The Las Vegas Sands, which wants lawmakers to convene a special session this summer to pave the way for Sheldon Adelson's stadium, contributed $211,500 to lawmakers and candidates in the two weeks leading up to Tuesday's primary.
The donations, made to candidates of both parties, are highly unusual in volume and breadth so late in an election. Lawmakers, either in a special or regular session next year, would almost surely have to pass a law enabling the stadium financing scheme to divert...
Day 14, Friday, June 10: Huge day on the final day, as usual: Nearly 10,000 folks voted in Clark County. Final number of 76,500 far above last cycle's 61,000. But even with mail, the total is 90,192. That's only 10 percent.
Partisan totals are higher:
Democrats: 45,868, or 11.8 percent
Republicans: 36,125, or 13.2 percent
Bottom line: The CD4 turnout still looks to be about 25,000 or so when all is said and done, unless Election Day turnout is unusually high. And don't forget a few hundred...