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A few days after announcing 17 county chairs and a couple of weeks after a Carson City town hall, Jeb Bush returns to Nevada next Wednesday.
It's will be his third visit as a candidate since May. Bush clearly knows We Matter.
The details:
A noon rally at the Hyatt Place near the airport in Reno.
A 5:30 PM town hall at the Pearson Community Center in North Las Vegas.
An appaerance on "Ralston Live," too? A host can dream....
Conventional wisdom has it that the Democrats are favorites to recapture the Assembly, which they shockingly lost in 2014 after holding a 27-15 edge and hemorraghing 10 seats.
Beneficiaries of the red wave such as Shelly Shelton, John Moore and Victoria Seaman (fleeing to a state Senate race demise) will be erased, the CW goes. An additional two more seats in a Democratic year and control switches.
Done deal?
Not so fast, Assembly Majority Leader Paul Anderson is telling donors as he raises...
Paul Laxalt, the ex-senator and ex-governor, turns 93 today.
He has been ill for some time and is rarely seen anymore.
On this occasion, I post a gift I recently received from my friend, the great historian/journalist Bob Stoldal, a letter Laxalt wrote in 1991, reminiscing about how he had spent his second Senate term ("fascinating but terribly difficult period") torn between the White House, where his friend Ronald Reagan resided, and the Club of 100.
I met Laxalt in 1986, just as he was...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The first six months of the cycle’s voter registration in Nevada?
2. Contract with Nevada: Should it be taken seriously?
3. Vicki don’t lose your Assembly seat….
4. The choice of Irene B-A as caucus chair
5. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
Below you will find my first look at voter registration trends for the first quarter of the two-year cycle. Not much movement in the first six months (the slowest time), but a slight loss for the Democrats. I...
In 2004, after what was then the largest tax increase in Nevada history, some Mensa-like GOP strategists thought an anti-tax "Contract with Nevada" would help the Republicans take over the Assembly, then in Democratic control by 23-19.
It was a disaster.
Democrats picked up three seats despite the anti-tax contract, instead wiping out two of the strongest opponents of the increase, Ron Knecht and Don Gustavson. (Of course, both have been resurrected. Gustvason is now a state senator; Knecht is...
A small band of would-be tax erasers are poised to launch their effort next week, aided by a lawmaker and legislative lawyers who helped them draft the petition to overturn Gov. Brian Sandoval’s largest increase in history.
Assemblyman Jim Wheeler confirmed this week that Legislative Counsel Bureau lawyers helped him draft possible vehicles to repeal the $1.4 billion tax increase, a use of legislative resources that surely infuriated the governor and key lawyers who pushed for and voted for the...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. Is the wailing on the right about the tax increases and legislator recalls meaningless noise or dangerous harbinger?
2. Is Chancellor Dan Klaich in trouble?
3. Who do the Dems have in CD3?
4. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
I was surprised how many of my insiders think Klaich is really in trouble – or should be. Most scoff at the repeals/recalls, but some raised warning flags. And Henderson Councilman Sam Bateman seems to be next in line for...
After Assemblywoman Michele Fiore twice refused to allow state inspectors into her home health care business records, officials Friday delivered a letter to her outlining her history of noncompliance and putting her on notice that her license to operate could be revoked.
As I reported earlier this week, Fiore has taken $6 million in Medicaid payments during the last five years and is subject to unannounced inspections, which she has twice rebuffed this year. In the letter delivered today, a...
Being nosy, I wondered who were these dozens of people with Gov. Brian Sandoval on his two-weeks-plus trade mission to Ireland, England, Germany and Italy.
So I asked.
The list, according to the state, is below. Lots of economic development officials, UNLV President Len Jessup and other education officials, a Jewish Federation delegation and honorary consuls. Also along for the painful trip are water officials (Pat Mulroy and John Entsminger) and company executives from some of the governor's...
NV Energy will file with state regulators a week from Friday to show it plans to comply with new rooftop solar (so-called net metering) requirements renewable advocates agreed to in the Legislature but are now asserting are unfair.
In a filing with the Public Utilities Commission this week, which you can see below, the company rejected assertions made by The Alliance for Solar Choice that it had misled lawmakers during the session about when it would exceed a current cap. Next week's filing...