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Good morning, everyone. Happy sesquicentennial Nevada Day! It’s also Halloween. Will it be a trick or a treat for the Democrats on this last day of early voting? Did I really just write that?
You know one question that has been bouncing around in my head all week, one that won’t leave me alone, one that just nags, nags, nags at me: Why in the world did I ever start that tradition of predicting election outcomes the Sunday before the election? If I’m not careful, this year my lifetime...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: R&R's Pete Ernaut.
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 5
DAYS UNTIL HARRY REID'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGINS: 6
Good morning, everyone. Bob Stoldal fired me once. As usual, he was right: I was terrible. But in the serpentine paths of both of our careers, we would be joined again many years later at a fledgling cable station called Las Vegas ONE, where he would shepherd “Face to Face” and then later, at the Jim Rogers empire, “...
Good morning, everyone. If you talk to a Democrat who knows anything about anything these days, he or she wants to talk about 2016 (“We’ll fix everything then”), not 2014. Might be able to reverse legislative losses and CD4 if it's gone, but not constitutional offices, which will be at midterm in '16. To quote a well-known Democrat about 2014, “The war is lost.” It’s just about how many casualties there will be, and who can be saved at this point. Will we be saying "Madame Chairwoman" to...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Uber wars.
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 7
DAYS UNTIL HARRY REID'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGINS: 8
Good morning, everyone. Yesterday was a disaster for the Democrats across the board on the eve of Bill Clinton’s visit designed to reanimate a corpse. Some details below, but the Republicans won by their largest margin yet in Clark County, extended their leads in those three key state Senate races and are now essentially tied in the...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 8
DAYS UNTIL HARRY REID'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGINS: 9
Good morning, everyone. I write this from my parents’ place in Palo Alto, where I am visiting for less than 24 hours so I could attend the World Series last night with the family. It was a great experience, made greater by being with my father, who had last seen a series game 58 years ago! It was a nice respite from the rush to Election Day,...
Good morning, everyone. My 15 minutes of “Alpha House” fame begin today, dear Flashees. The Amazon Prime show, which is about the lives of four U.S. senators, asked me to play myself in a few scenes, which are now available as Season Two has posted.
”Ralston Reports” is in three episodes, and I am in two (right at the beginning of Episode 10, if you want some flavor). I don’t think there is an Emmy in my future, but I don’t think I embarrassed myself. Going to NYC for two days of shooting was...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Nastiest judicial race of year: William Horne vs. Carolyn Ellsworth.
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 12
DAYS UNTIL HARRY REID'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGINS: 13
Good morning, everyone. This NYT story that posted late Wednesday is something else, with Mayor Carolyn Goodman telling the paper of record that the “only reason” she ran after her husband served was to bring pro sports here. Wow.
The other interesting piece that posted late Wednesday was...
Good morning, everyone. Happy anniversary to---me! Thirty years ago today, I started as a night police reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, planning to be in this godforsaken, soulless wasteland for two years on my career arc that would lead me back East to the holy grail of The New York Times. But opportunity kept knocking, I stayed and I have never had a regret about it.
I wrote about my stay here last year at this time. And today that godforsaken, soulless wasteland has become the home...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Controller Kim Wallin.
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 14
DAYS UNTIL HARRY REID'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGINS: 15
Good morning, everyone. That was quite the debate last night at Congregation Ner Tamid between Erin Bilbray and Rep. Joe Heck, and Laura Myers captured it well. Bilbray kept repeating various mantras about Heck, who kept his cool, even though I thought he might lose it once or twice. We have them Friday on “Ralston Reports.”
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Good morning, everyone. I saw “Kill the Messenger” last night and highly recommend it, especially if you are in journalism or interested in journalism or lament the state of journalism. No matter what the facts are – and some remain murky – what happened to him is a sad, depressing story, with a former UNR journalism dean, Jerry Ceppos, at the center of it. (Trivia: I once applied for a job at the Mercury News and got rejected by Ceppos.) Jeremy Renner is superb as is a cast with many high-...