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Reid plans rally to pressure House on immigration reform
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will hold an immigration reform rally at Culinary union headquarters on Monday, a few days after the U.S. Senate is expected to have passed a bipartisan measure. The event -- flyer attached below -- will feature perhaps the House's most prominent Latino leader, Illinois' Luis Gutierrez, who has been to Nevada before and is sure to remind the crowd about the state's burgeoning Latino population and how it played and will play a pivotal role in elections. The Culinary's membership is half Hispanic.
Sacramento Bee exposes more cases of patient dumping, accuses feds and state of whitewash
The Sacramento Bee isn't done yet embarrassing Nevada's mental health system. After weeks of stories that highlighted unattended patients being bused from Rawson-Neal in Las Vegas to other cities, the California capital newspaper showed Sunday that James Flavy Brown was hardly an abberation.
SOS Miller sends a 3,000-page love letter to GOP group
You may recall that Secretary of State Ross Miller has been taking guff from a GOP-aligned group that clearly wants to stop him -- or at least wound him -- before he becomes attorney general.
How Dean Heller learned to love immigration reform
Sen. Dean Heller was adamant about the DREAM Act.
Adelson: Web poker is a "cancer waiting to happen," poker is not a game of skill and his rivals support it because they need the money
One day after he penned a scathing op-ed in Forbes about online gaming, Gondolier Numero Uno Sheldon Adelson called web poker a "cancer" and derided itd description as a game of skill in an interview with Bloomberg News.
When you regulate the Strip, gaming hosts fundraisers for you
Clark County Commissioner Mary Beth Scow is getting started early for her re-election, with a fundraiser next week hosted by the Nevada Resort Association, the lobbying arm of the industry the incumbent oversees. This is known as the "I'm trying to scare people away" event -- the invite and large host committee are attached here. Subtle, it ain't. But subtlety has little place in getting anointed. I'm looking for someone on that list who will not need something from Scow in the coming months -- years, if she is re-elected. Looking. Still looking.....
How Yucca Mountain can still spark partisan firefights and rhetorical nonsense
Full disclosure: I hate Yucca Mountain. Not the place; the political issue. Ever since the 1987 Screw Nevada Bill, singling out Nevada as the site for nuclear waste disposal, the public (well, mostly the media) has endured local pols posturing and visiting electeds pandering. It is endless and mindless.
Culinary tries to deprive Station Casinos of "Best Companies to Work For" honor
In case you think the Culinary is too focused on those contract negotiations to continue its campaign to organize Station Casinos, a new letter designed to hurt the company's chances of getting a prestigious imprimatur indicates the effort continues unabated.
Lowden confirms interest in running for lieutenant governor; crowded field looms
It's only June of the off year, but already the political skies are teeming with trial balloons for the most exciting race of 2014 in Nevada: lieutenant governor. Yes, lieutenant governor.
Labor turns up heat in immigration
As part of a national campaign to pressure undecided senators, including Dean Heller, the AFL-CIO has started an ad campaign in English and Spanish. The labor folks also have a series of "webisodes" featuring different stories. Will this have much effect on someone such as Heller? Not sure he cares much what labor thinks. But I suppose every little bit could help. Here are the TV spots: