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The special session was unconstitutional
Just a thought, not that anyone would ever raise the issue in court. The specific section of the Constitution has been flouted before, but never more so than after midnight on Monday when legislative dithering, and nothing else, caused a special session. It was not an extraordinary event, by any definition.
"Fahrenkopf Lays Online Failure at Door of Reid and Kyl"
That startling headline, coming as the only head of the American Gaming Association leaves the industry's DC lobbying arm, ran in a subscription-only publication called Gambling Compliance. The piece, written by former Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Tony Batt, describes as "striking" Fahrenkopf's comments about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and ex-Sen. Jon Kyl.
Sandoval's office creates recording to gauge support for gun bill
UPDATE, 6 PM, WEDNESDAY: The governor's office reports more than 2,000 calls so far on the bill, with callers about 4-to-1 against. Here's what spokeswoman Mary-Sarah Kinner told me:
With casino/hotel contracts expired June 1, Culinary leaders mobilize members
Culinary union leaders Wednesday sent a missive to members about a Monday meeting with MGM Resorts on contracts that expired at the beginning of the month, detailing negotiating points and making a call to action. There's also an announcement of a June 14 rally on the Strip in the missive, which I have obtained: Committee members from Culinary 226 and Bartenders 165 met on Monday, June 3 with representatives from MGM Resorts for the third 2013 contract meeting. Our negotiating team proposed the following:
High court hears lawyer's smear job on journalist
There was an interesting debate before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday about the limits of the Nevada shield law. But while the justices probed the legal issues, the case before them still can be simply distilled: Should a lawyer be able to abuse the legal process by fabricating allegations about a journalist reporting on a client, with the intent not to seek justice but to harass and intimidate, thus chilling the coverage?
End of Days blog
BDR77_32-1248.pdf, LtGov.pdf, CSG Las Vegas.pdf, SB123_R2_9410_V1-MOCKUP.pdf, PUCN NVision Timeline.pdf, 
MEMO W AMEND TO AB 123.docx, MEMO ON SB123.docx, ARS NV poll.doc
Mayors Against Illegal Guns goes after Roberson
I have no doubt that part of the reason state Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson introduced a gun control bill (sans background checks) was to try to be able to blunt mail pieces next year that will be sent out against Republicans who opposed Democrat Justin Jones' bill. Well, 2014 came early as Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which is pushing the Jones bill and started an ad to push Gov. Brian Sandoval, has a full-blown field operation now in Roberson's district. And it inlcudes just the kind of mail piece, dropping this week and attached here, that the good senator feared.
Buffett/NV Energy deal cannot be affected by power company's major bill
The pending agreement between Warren Buffett and Nevada's power monoply specifically states that the passage or failure of SB 123, its controversial coal-and-regulation-disappearing bill, has no impact on the deal. That's according to an SEC document filed this week and posted here, which states in part (see ppg. 61-62) that a litany of occurrences cannot have an adverse effect on the deal, including:
Mayors Against Illegal Guns goes after Sandoval on guns
I doubt it will make much difference, beyond generating a lot of calls to Gov. Brian Sandoval's office, but here it is: