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Emails reveal city officials discussing bending rules, even telling Reid's son to "bid high" for soccer tournament
Maybe the city of Las Vegas wasn’t trying to go out of its way to help Key Reid, simply because he’s the senator’s son.
Culinary gets the FOX treatment
Those videos from the anti-union group designed to embarrass the Culinary after picketers abused tourists in front of the Cosmopolitan, were the subject of a segment Thursday on Megyn Kelly's new FOX show. Kelly introduced the story about "some angry union members with an ugly message," which actually is not unfair. The rest was fairly predictable, with the story follwoed by set-up-to-bash-unions panel.
Pierce was one of a kind, not soon forgotten
Peggy Pierce always scared me a little bit. She was diminutive in stature. But she always seemed coiled, ready to unleash a verbal arrow at any sign of a lack of purity, any false equivalency that THEY might be right and she might be wrong.
Sandoval letter to delegation: Don't let the economy go down on me
On the same day he made those comments about the shutdown, Gov. Brian Sandoval penned a letter to all six members of the Nevada delegation, urging them to end the shutdown.
Sandoval seeks to play role of adult amid child's play in DC, sets off political sparring, speculation
Back in 2009, Brian Sandoval would have fit right in with the House Tea Party caucus.
Small college president announces she is stepping down immediately
Western Nevada College President Carol Lucey, who announced in July she would resign next year after another legislative gutting, today declared she was not waiting around for a successor and is leaving immediately.
AGA boss pushes the web frontier in place where Adelson wants Internet gaming banned
In what was billed as his first major speech as Frank Fahrenkopf's successor, American Gaming Association boss Geoff Freeman went to the place where Sheldon Adelson wants to build and touted what Sheldon Adelson wants banned: Web gaming. Freeman's speech was touted in an AGA release:
Poll: Two most popular things in Nevada are margin tax and Gov. Sunny
The margin tax is a huge favorite among voters, the ballot question to remove mining taxation from the Constitution is not far behind and Gov. Brian Sandoval is a juggernaut heading into re-election. Those are the findings of a poll conducted late last month, with a large sample, by a respected Democratic pollster for the Nevada State Education Association, which is pushing the new tax on business.
Year of the Woman for GOP? Two key state Senate candidates to surface today
State Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson has recruited female candidates in the two critical races next year that will determine if he can change his title. Both are expected to be unveiled today, sources said.