Items by Steve Sebelius

• Krolicki says his name cleared

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  Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki issued a statement via his political consultants today, following the dismissal without prejudice of felony charges against him. The text: “I am pleased with the court’s decision to dismiss the charges made against me and that my family and I can begin the process of putting this [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• That’s our Harry

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  U.S. Sen. Harry Reid doesn’t get a lot of credit for his personality, mostly because he’s usually as dry as the Searchlight desert in which he grew up without hot water. But that image belies the fact that he can really rip one off from time to time. And today [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Escape of the weasel?

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  Number of comments: 3
  Why is this man smiling? Because felony charges against him were dismissed today! A District Court judge today dismissed the felony charges against Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, known affectionately to us as “The Weasel.” It wasn’t immediately clear why Judge Valerie Adair dismissed the charges against Krolicki and his former chief [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:05am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Ensign hates lawyers

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  John Ensign — who, it must be noted, is still a United States senator — saw yet another of his bad ideas go down to defeat on Sunday. The latest Ensign scheme would have limited plaintiff’s attorney’s fees in medical malpractice cases to one-third of the first $150,000 and one-fourth [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:37am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Harrah’s skates: big surprise

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  Number of comments: 1
  You remember Harrah’s Entertainment, right? That’s the company that secretly and illegally remodeled some of its hotels, without bothering with building permits or inspections. Thanks to a tip from a pissed-off (and fired) whistleblower, the Review-Journal conducted an investigation in 2007 and discovered that the lives and safety of guests [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:06pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Heller on health care, war, Ensign and torture

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  Number of comments: 1
  U.S. Rep. Dean Heller said two ideas he’s proposed for the health-care bill were rejected, including one that was opposed by his fellow Republicans. In a wide-ranging interview with bloggers and radio talkers Friday, sponsored by the Nevada News Bureau and held in the offices of Republican consultant Sig Rogich, Heller [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 3:27pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Program note

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  The perfect vacation Readers, we’ll be on “staycation” this week, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll be idle. As always, you can follow us on Twitter, for breaking news, random thoughts and the like. We’ll be back with all-new blogs on Monday, unless there’s something we just can’t keep to ourselves [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:31am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Ensign says words on radio show

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  U.S. Sen. John Ensign went on the Alan Stock show on KXNT-AM 840 this morning, agreeing to talk about his personal issues for a few minutes before spewing right-wing talking points for most of the rest of the hour. While Ensign addressed his affair in now-familiar terms (”a huge mistake” and [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:30am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

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  Mmmmmmm, turkey! To all our readers from us at Various Things & Stuff: Happy Thanksgiving! Normally it goes without saying, but today seems like a good day to say it: We’re thankful for our readers! [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:42pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Oh, no, he didn’t!

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  Number of comments: 5
  If somebody were to have asked us to make a list of the members of Nevada’s state Senate who we thought would park illegally in a handicapped space, we’d have ranked Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford pretty close to the bottom. He’s a bright, intelligent guy who’s been an advocate [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:56pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Ensign cried like a little boy

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  Never has U.S. Sen. John Ensign cheered for The Tonight Show and Late Night with David Letterman more than on Monday, when ABC’s competing Nightline aired its interview with Ensign’s former best friend and top aide, Doug Hampton. Most of the details in the interview were not new — Ensign had [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:12am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• We’re scared, but excited!

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  One of the revelations to be aired on ABC’s Nightline this evening is exactly how Doug Hampton discovered U.S. Sen. John Ensign was having an affair with Hampton’s wife, Cindy. It was around Christmas 2007, and Hampton found this text message from Ensign on his wife’s phone. “How wonderful it is. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:25pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Are you f-ing kidding?

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  Number of comments: 2
  We didn’t have time to attend the anti-Harry Reid news conference call held this morning by former Gov. Bob List, not that his excellency or his peeps were good enough to let us know when it was being held. But if the report in the Las Vegas Sun is any [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:49pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• TV time

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  Number of comments: 1
  Eliza Dushku: Once again a victim of shortsighted, tasteless network executives. Well, those bastards have done it again: Fox has canceled Eliza Dushku’s cult favorite Dollhouse. Sure, they say they’ll air the remaining episodes that have already been ordered, but after that, the show goes away. Why, Fox? Why? We feel [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:14am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Monday night … Ensign?!

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  These lovely ladies will have some viewing competiton on Monday -- Doug Hampton's star turn on Nightline! That’s right, readers, our long wait is over! On Monday (that’s Nov. 23), ABC’s Nightline will air its interview with Doug Hampton, the husband of the woman with whom U.S. Sen. John Ensign had [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:18pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Oh, that’s going to be awkward

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  Number of comments: 2
  Apparently, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin mentioned no one from the ranks of Nevada conservatives in her new book, Going Rogue. That is going to make for a very awkward time during the Costco book signing slated for next month in Reno. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:57pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Where’s the cops when you need them?

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  There are plenty of outrages, petty and great, in Las Vegas on any given day. But this one makes our blood boil. As reported today by Review-Journal Editor Tom Mitchell and by the AP’s hard-working Ken Ritter, bailiffs in Family Court improperly and illegally detained a group of journalists inside a [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:27pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• SenEnsign: vulgar, offensive, deceptive

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  Senator Vulgar, Offensive and Deceptive, aka John Ensign Yes, “vulgar,” “offensive” and “deceptive” are certainly adjectives that could be applied to U.S. Sen. John Ensign. He did, after all, sleep with his best friend’s wife when both were working for Ensign in campaign and official capacities, respectively. And then he got his [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:54pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Pro-lifers against personhood amendment? What?

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  Number of comments: 3
  Everybody knows that the so-called personhood amendment proposed for the Nevada Constitution is aimed at outlawing abortion in all its forms once and for all. According to organizers — and drawing on language found in the famous 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade — if a fetus [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:56am EST
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• Set your TiVo: More Ensign programs coming

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  Number of comments: 2
  These days, Ensign really doesn't want to meet the press... Let’s just say we’re glad we’re getting our brand-new HD television set up this weekend, because next week promises to be a big one in political media. Politico reports today that ABC’s Nightline will finally air its interview next week with' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:10pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Classy and constitutional don’t always mesh

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  Number of comments: 1
  We were going to leave the whole “strippermobile” thing alone, because, let’s be honest, why be cliche? After all, we edit a newspaper partially supported by sex ads in the back, so we’re really not ones to talk. But then we read the comments of one Marla Letizia in the Las [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• BREAKING: Mendy Elliott quits state job

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  Mendy Elliott, the governor’s former deputy chief of staff who was exiled to the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation after a staff shake up this summer, has announced her resignation from the job, sources confirm. Stacey Woodbury, the governor’s current deputy chief of staff, said this in response to an [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:58pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• If only McCain had listened to Lowden!

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  Could these women have helped John McCain win Nevada? John McCain’s embarrassing 12-point loss to Barack Obama (by a margin of 120,909 votes) in 2008 may have been avoided, had the Arizona senator only listened to then-Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden. She wanted to make McCain seem more interesting [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:17am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Thanking the vets

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  Amen. Years ago, upon reaching the age of 18, we went down to U.S. post office on Atlanta Avenue in Huntington Beach, Calif., and registered with the Selective Service System. It was a small thing at the time, and we didn’t think much about the fact that, in the event of [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Not to say we told you so, but…

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  We totally did tell you so, back in December, when we wondered aloud if former KVBC Channel 3 weatherman John Fredericks was totally insane. Before that, even. Like, way before that. Well, we were right, according to the KLAS Channel 8 I-Team. [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:22am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• BREAKING: Sun managing editor quitting

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  This just in: Las Vegas Sun Managing Editor Mike Kelley has announced his resignation retirement today. Kelley oversaw the paper’s switch from an independently published afternoon daily to an eight-to-10-page section inserted inside the daily Review-Journal, a transformation that relieved the Sun of having to cover daily happenings in Las [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:11pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Reid: The most interesting race in the world

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  Number of comments: 3
  This is NOT a picture of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid Nobody would ever confuse our own U.S. Sen. Harry Reid with the most interesting man in the world. For one, Reid never drinks beer, and the most interesting man in the world occasionally sips Dos Equis. But Politico says today that Reid’s [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• There’s a new ombudswoman in town!

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  Number of comments: 3
  Let the cyber media criticism begin Progressive activist, former reporter and columnist Erin Neff today dropped a 15-megaton nuclear bomb on her former employer, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, in the form of a new website aimed at media criticism of Nevada’s largest daily. Although the Las Vegas Journal Review site crashed [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:25pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Opting in to democracy

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  Is vox populi always vox Dei? U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian is going to start circulating an initiative that would allow Nevada voters to decide whether to opt-out of the public option in the health-care bill that’s slowly forming on Capitol Hill. It hasn’t been entirely clear how the opt-out [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:10am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• When people aid in their own deception

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  Number of comments: 1
  The scientific method: It's a handy guide to how we're supposed to figure things out. You may sometimes wonder why people believe things that aren’t true. You know, things such as the Earth is but 10,000 years old. Or that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Or that the health-care' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:58pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Governor: California’s trash could be Nevada’s treasure

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  Number of comments: 7
  At least one constituency supports Gov. Jim Gibbons's call for more recycling at landfills: Seagulls! Gov. Jim Gibbons today called for Nevada to become a national leader in recycling materials sent to landfills. His comments come after a controversy erupted over a huge landfill project near Winnemucca that will host thousands [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:34am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Med Board chief makes case for dissolving medical board

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  The Nevada state medical board should go, it's chief says (unwittingly) in a new rant Dr. Charles Held, chairman of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners, today made a compelling case for disbanding the board due to impotence, incompetence and inability to, well, do things. In a two-page rant, apparently occasioned [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:12pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Recovering drug addict yells at president

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  Some people say Fox News is biased in favor of conservatives, but Sunday’s edition showed the network is anything but. Host Chris Wallace traveled to sunny Florida to interview a conservative former drug addict about President Barack Obama, and proceeded to let the poor man make a complete fool of himself. [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• The Hill: Liberals love Reid

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  The Washington, D.C., newspaper The Hill says today that U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has been shoring up his liberal base with a series of actions that culminated last week in his pledge to include a public option in the health-care bill. Certainly Reid did garner some accolades from us at [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• WTF is this?

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  Number of comments: 3
  Can anybody tell us what in the hell this is all about? You know, we can’t help thinking that KTNV Channel 13 might need some help. And we know just the guy: Nina Radetich’s boyfriend Jack Finn. Dealing with media is, like, his favorite thing to do. Seriously, he’d do it [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:18am EST
  by Steve Sebelius

• Set your TiVo!

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  We'd let Dexter's sister Deb arrest us! We know how it goes people. You’re all set to watch the third season of Dexter, and it’s just getting to the good part, when the Netflix DVD craps out because the last person who rented it used it as a Frisbee/coaster/screwdriver, and' [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• POLITICO: Ensign shunned by ex-staffers

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  Number of comments: 11
  Very few people still like U.S. Sen. John Ensign U.S. Sen. John Ensign has been shunned by former staffers, including a top campaign aide who’s been with him for a long time, according to a story posted today on Politico. The story, by writers John Bresnahan and Manu Raju, quotes former [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:45am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Bombing on Reid

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  Warning! Heidi Harris is NOT an investigative reporter, so she may say things that are demonstrably untrue at any moment. So apparently there’s a controversy brewing over whether somebody tried to kill U.S. Sen. Harry Reid with a car bomb, back in the days when Reid was chairman of the state [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 1:54pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Oh, we like this one

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  Number of comments: 4
  A few months ago, the inestimable U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared on the equally inestimable Rachel Maddow Show, fronting a very simple premise: Conservative or moderate Democrats who didn’t believe in a public option in the health-care debate should still vote for cloture, so as to allow the measure to [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 2:40pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• In praise of Harry Reid

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  Number of comments: 3
  U.S. Sen. Harry Reid took a big risk on health care, and should get credit for it. We’ve been tough on U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on this blog, mostly because we assume that when one is the leader of the Democrats, and when the American people overwhelmingly put the Democrats in [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 1:54pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Make that ALMOST every chance

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  We were all excited recently when we saw casino mogul Steve Wynn tell the Review-Journal that he wasn’t going to stop speaking out against the Barack Obama administration and its handling of the economy, the recession and various stimulus plans. After he showed up on Fox News Channel and in [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:53am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• What a dick

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  Number of comments: 8
  Back when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid allowed Democratic traitor Joe Lieberman to not only remain in the Democratic caucus, but to keep the chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee, we told some of our associates that Reid would regret not taking the slippery bastard out. Sure enough, that day has [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:34am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Hold the vote!

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  Number of comments: 4
  The day progressives have feared since the health-care debate began is here: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is saying there are no enough votes in the House to support a true public option in the health-care bill, according to a story in Politico. The story adds that President Barack Obama urged Democrats [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:24am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Reid isn’t weak; that’s the point!

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  This is Ironman, who is not Harry Reid. A slim majority of voters say Reid, unlike Ironman, is weak. A new poll (reported on Politico) suggests that just more than half of Nevada residents think U.S. Sen. Harry Reid is a weak leader. And that gives progressives pause, since they are [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:57am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Are a-hole drivers killing cops?

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  Number of comments: 10
  When you see something that looks like this, slow down and pull over In light of Sheriff Doug Gillespie’s comments Tuesday regarding the need for Metro Police officers to buckle up and obey the speed laws, we feel compelled to mention one small detail that’s been neglected in the coverage [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:34am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Sandoval appeals to God for campaign

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  Number of comments: 7
  God, another reason to believe again Former federal judge Brian Sandoval today unveiled his campaign slogan on his website, an overt appeal to the Almighty. The slogan, “A Reason to Believe Again,” is clearly aimed at getting wayward Nevadans to return to a belief in God, which they’ve clearly lost due [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 5:19pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Harry Reid campaign confirms it has phaser technology

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  Number of comments: 3
  The U.S.S. Harry M. Reid begins a debate with rival Sue Lowden The campaign of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has developed advanced phaser technology, and has confirmed a willingness to use it, according to a story today in Politico. To wit: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is prepared to run a sharply [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:46am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Bybee dodges complaint

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  Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jay Bybee has dodged a misconduct complaint based on those torture memos he wrote while working as a lawyer for the Justice Department under former President George W. Bush. The dismissal never got to the heart of the complaint, since the conduct in [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:03pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Gov. Schneider thanks a Las Vegas original

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  Number of comments: 2
  For a few days, this man was your governor That’s right, people, we said Governor Michael Schneider. For a few days recently, Schneider — the president pro tempore of the Nevada state Senate, stepped in to serve as acting governor since both Gov. Jim Gibbons and Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki were [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 3:11pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• TV time once again

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  Number of comments: 2
  Yes, he's on TV tonight, too. No, he won't be on Nevada Week in Review. It’s Friday, people, and that can mean only one thing, TV wise. No, we don’t mean Law & Order, the super-cool crime drama now in it’s 2,311th season. (Fun fact: Series star Sam Waterston, who plays' [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 2:49pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Reid = Biden? Well, OK then!

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  Number of comments: 2
  The Republican National Committee this week tried to claim Jackie Robinson as “a great Republican” when, in fact, he was anything but. Nice try, Republicans. (Hey, what party did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., belong to, we wonder?) But the GOP didn’t stop there. In fact, the party is trying to [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:54am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Reid announces for governor

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  Number of comments: 5
  Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid announced his candidacy for governor Wednesday Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid already made one campaign promise before even announcing his candidacy for governor: Once he officially declared, he said, he’d come with more specific policy ideas than his main Republican opponent, Brian Sandoval. That was a [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 8:39am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Yeah, here’s the thing, see…

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  Number of comments: 6
  A really busy intersection So one of the top authorities in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is saying that persecution of Mormons in the wake of their support of California’s anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment is akin to intimidation of blacks in the South during the civil rights era. And [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 9:56am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Reid has lots of money

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  Number of comments: 1
  U.S. Sen. Harry Reid raised $1.9 million in contributions in the last three months, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission. All told, he’s taken in more than $12 million since the race began, nearly halfway to his goal of raising $25 million for his re-election bid. After [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:35pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Reid right, wrong on gay marrage question

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  Number of comments: 1
  St. Harry of Washington? U.S. Sen. Harry Reid made news today when he criticized his church — the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — for its heavy financial involvement in California’s 2008 anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment, Question 8. In a meeting with activists who came to Washington, D.C. to [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Fire up the TiVo!

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  Number of comments: 1
  Fire up the TiVo, people, because Friday night is the best night of television yet. No, we’re not talking about the second season of Dollhouse, the mega-awesome show starring and produced by Eliza Dushku, although that is definitely worth your time. Instead, we’re referring to Nevada Week in Review, with [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Wee bit o’ justice

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  Louis Ling, the executive director of the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners, has quit. Ling recently threw the Nevada medical community into chaos when he “discovered” a 30-year-old law that appeared to outlaw the practice of allowing medical assistants to administer injections to patients, apparently a common practice across medical fields. [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 4:47pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• POLITICO: Reid endangered

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  Our very own U.S. Sen. Harry Reid — rumors of whose death have been greatly exaggerated in the past — makes Politico’s Senate watch list today. Here’s what the editors had to say about Reid’s future: The only thing stopping Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from being rated as the most [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 8:10am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Ensign still has supporters?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 3
  It may be hard to believe, but U.S. Sen. John Ensign still does have supporters in Nevada. At least one says Ensign does a good job representing Nevada in the Senate. In this week’s CityLife column, we explain why that’s wrong. [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 12:17pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Another Ensign fan

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  U.S. Sen. John Ensign is “an arrogant … scumbag”? A “slime ball” who should resign? Don’t look at us — we didn’t say it! Those are the words of CNN’s Jack Cafferty, one of the myriad people who’ve looked at the details of the Ensign scandal and came away disgusted. [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 3:49pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Berkley joins Spirits Society (we wish we were her!)

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  Nevada’s very own U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley will be inducted into the George Washington Spirits Society at the first president’s former home in Mount Vernon this month. Berkley, who we hear can pour a mean Guinness, is being inducted because of “…her strong support of the hospitality industry in Nevada [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Coburn ‘a valuable witness’ against Ensign

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  Number of comments: 2
  Remember not so long ago, after U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn had blabbed a little about his friend and roommate U.S. Sen. John Ensign’s smarmy affair and it’s aftermath? He said then he wouldn’t talk about it anymore, invoking his dual roles as a physician (he’s an OB/GYN) and a deacon [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 10:21am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Shocking CNN video proof of evolution!

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 2
  Sorry, creationists, but the news network CNN has captured irrefutable proof of the truth of the theory of evolution. In video posted to the Internet today, the news network captured footage of a rare, little-known precursor to modern humans, the Silver-Haired North American Douchebag. Long thought to be extinct, the [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 1:36pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Heck for Congress!

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 8
  Dr. Joe Heck has decided to run for Congress instead of governor Dr. Joe Heck, a former Nevada state senator, is now running for Congress. He used to be running for governor. We told you so. Heck, who specializes in emergency medicine, wasted no time criticizing the incumbent, U.S. Rep. Dina Titus. Well, [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Congressional update with Dina Titus

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 1
  U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, a big supporter of the public option U.S. Rep. Dina Titus says an $8,000 tax credit for first time homebuyers will likely be extended, but with some key differences, if proposals currently in several House bills become law. And a health-care plan with a public option will [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 4:59pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Lowden’s support for Ensign doesn’t wane

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Democrats today are criticizing newly minted U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden because of her support for embattled U.S. Sen. John Ensign. Recall Lowden tried to organize a letter of support for Ensign after the senator confessed to an affair with a campaign aide who was also the wife of a [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 12:37pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Brower lands a job

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Nevada U.S. attorney Greg Brower, headed for a job in the private sector Greg Brower, the soon-to-be-former U.S. attorney who resigned the post to make room for his predecessor, unfairly fired by the George W. Bush administration, has landed a job in the private sector. Brower will shortly join the Snell [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 12:05pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Heck for Congress

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 6
  Dr. Joe Heck is telling people he’s definitely running for Congress, not for governor as he’d originally planned, according to a source who tipped us off today. We’ve e-mailed Heck to confirm his plans. Heck, a former Republican state senator just barely unseated in 2006 announced early that he’d be challenging Gov. [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 6:10pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• NYT Ensign fallout: Investigations?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 2
  U.S. Sen. John Ensign may be investigated after a New York Times story detailed possible violations of government ethics laws. Washington tongues are wagging after that lengthy New York Times story on the fallout from John Ensign’s affair with campaign aide Cindy Hampton. (The piece is on the front page, above [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 2:30pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Ensign, Hampton may have broken law in wake of affair, NYT report says

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 1
  John Ensign allegedly knew former aide Doug Hampton's lobbying violated federal law, but helped him do it anyway The New York Times today has a devastating piece on U.S. Sen. John Ensign’s affair with a campaign aide who is the wife of an ex-staffer. Among the key points: Doug Hampton, the husband [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 3:49pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• What is it with these people?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 1
  Money -- for business, not people We all know the economy is bad. As a result, some businesses have chosen to lay off employees as a way to cut costs. As a result of that, the demand for state unemployment checks has gone up. And as a result of that, the [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 2:07pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• October non-surprise: Sue Lowden is running for Senate!

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 7
  Businesswoman and former state Sen. Sue Lowden will take on incumbent Harry Reid next year (Editor’s note: This post has been altered from its original version to correct errors.) Sue Lowden, the former journalist, state senator and Nevada businesswoman who just stepped down from running the Nevada Republican Party, announced today she’s [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 7:54am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Reid: Re-elect me please

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 3
  U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, seen here making no apologies U.S. Sen. Harry Reid took to the Senate floor today to ask Nevadans to vote for him again come 2010., inasmuch as he’s getting some money for our beleaguered state. Reid referenced a deal he made with fellow U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:08am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Finn out at NV Energy

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 5
  Somebody is out of a job in the Nina Radetich scandal, but it’s not the KTNV Channel 13 anchorwoman, who continues to broadcast daily. Intstead, Radetich’s boyfriend, Jack Finn, has left his position with NV Energy. Finn confirmed today that he left the company, but would say only that “I [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Maybe it isn’t going away?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 2
  KTNV Channel 13 anchorwoman Nina Radetich may still be on the air, despite committing a gross ethical violation. KNTV Vice President and General Manager Jim Prather may be standing behind Radetich 100 percent. Media criticism of Radetich (on blogs, in print and in the pages of CityLife) may be falling [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 11:39am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• That was fast

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 3
  Dr. Joe Heck may challenge Dina Titus for Congress instead of Jim Gibbons et. al. for governor On Saturday, after word broke that banker John Guedry had dropped out of the race for Congress against Dina Titus, questions were raised about whether former state Sen. Joe Heck would drop his bid [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 5:34pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Supreme Court smokes ban

  —Various Things & Stuff

  So the Nevada Supreme Court has upheld the 2006 Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act, the voted-approved initiative that banned smoking almost everywhere except for tobacco retail stores, casino floors and the backyard patio at our house. Owners of bars that serve food — where smoking is banned — had sued, [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:41pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Rove: Wish I’d lied even more

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 1
  Ah, regret. Like a black jaguar stalking us through the jungle of life, it’s always there, always waiting, always ready to pounce. Former White House political adviser (and covert-CIA name leaker) Karl Rove this weekend showed up at a dinner thrown by the Nevada Policy Research Institute. You remember NPRI, right? [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:29pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Johnny Casino says, ‘Stay healthy, kids!’

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 1
  A very healthy looking U.S. Sen. John Ensign We noticed this weekend that America’s most athletic senator — our very own John Ensign — wants to amend the health-care bill to allow employers to give healthy employees a hefty discount on their insurance plans. That means people such as Ensign, who [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:11pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Bybee, others indicted! Finally!

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 1
  Sam Waterston for attorney general! Jay Bybee, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge who wrote memos essentially legalizing torture while working for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush administration’s Department of Justice, has finally been indicted for conspiracy to torture and murder. Unfortunately, the indictment came on [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 1:06pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Guedry out of Titus race

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 3
  Former banker John Guedry abruptly left the Congressional District 3 race today, saying “recent events have compelled me as a father and husband to end my campaign.” The news is good for U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, the incumbent in the district with 39,200 more Democrats than Republicans. Here’s Guedry’s statement: “I entered this [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 4:45pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Commissioner Cornwall?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Gov. Jim Gibbons intends to appoint his former chief operating officer, Dianne Cornwall, to the Nevada Gaming Commission when a seat becomes vacant in April, sources confirm. Cornwall, who is now the director of the state’s Department of Business and Industry, dismissed the reports when we asked her about them today. [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 3:04pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• An open letter to answer an open letter

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 5
  KTNV Channel 13 anchorwoman Nina Radetich Dude, save your breath. The Review-Journal’s media columnist — Steve Bornfeld –  writes an open letter  today in which he calls on KTNV Channel 13 anchorwoman Nina Radetich to apologize for pimping her boyfriend’s PR skills to a news source under investigation by her station. (Bornfeld [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Credit for being clever

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 2
  So, remember recently when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid — er, make that, the Nevada State Democratic Party, yeah, that’s it — filed that Federal Election Commission complaint against the “Dump Reid PAC,” citing a federal law that says you can’t use a candidate’s name in a PAC title without authorization? [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 3:16pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• CityLife = Winalicious!

  —CityBlog

  Las Vegas CityLife became the most award-winning weekly newspaper in Nevada on Sept. 19, as the Nevada Press Association announced the results of its annual Better Newspapers Contest. The paper took home 34 total awards, including 16 first-place wins, more than any other weekly newspaper in its class. First place wins [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Could somebody put this on the bulletin board?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 2
  After a heart wrenching story about the evils of taxes imposed by the 2009 Legislature on poor, beleaguered small business, we knew it was but a matter of time before the Review-Journal would start publishing contrary information. And we didn’t have to wait long. Here’s a timeline: Sept. 6: R-J business [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 12:12pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Ensign won’t be a hypocrite, will he?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 2
  U.S. Sen. John Ensign sometimes says he doesn’t want to be a hypocrite, so we’ve got a little challenge for the man better known as Johnny Casino. It seems he’s introducing plenty of amendments to health care reform, including one that would replace every instance of the word “fee” in [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 11:09am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Gibbons signs emergency order on medical assistants

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Gov. Jim Gibbons today signed off on an emergency order issued by the state Board of Medical Examiners to allow medical assistants to administer certain injections. The order comes after a story broke on Face to Face with Jon Ralston that revealed medical assistants were administering cosmetic Botox injections in [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 3:52pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Oh, now that’s awkward

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 3
  Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Joe Heck will sign the Americans for Tax Reform’s anti-tax pledge, which ups the ante in the GOP contest that’s just getting off the ground. Word broke via the Nevada News Bureau moments ago. Here’s the story: Heck to Sign Tax Pledge (Las Vegas, NV) – Republican gubernatorial [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 6:41pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Fastest train the world! Right here in Nevada!

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 8
  A maglev train, similar to this one in Shanghai, China, could be built in Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons has some good news, Nevada: We’re going to get a super-fast train, the fastest one in the world, and it’s going to be built right here in Nevada! That’s right, using a mysterious [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 6:30pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Confusion in academia

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 5
  Here’s University of Nevada Reno political science professor Eric Herzik, quoted in the Review-Journal Sept. 10 discussing the potential U.S. Senate candidacy of state Sen. Mark Amodei: University of Nevada, Reno political science professor Eric Herzik said the result of the Republican primary will provide insight to the future viability of [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 10:54am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• So, Ensign was lying then?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Former federal judge Brian Sandoval, now a candidate for Nevada governor Former federal judge Brian Sandoval, announcing his run for governor of Nevada just an hour after his resignation officially took effect, said that he alone made the decision to get into the race. And in so doing, he called U.S. [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 10:39am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• 1/10,000th of the evil of Bush years undone

  —Various Things & Stuff

  The U.S. Senate today again confirmed Daniel Bogden as U.S. attorney for Nevada, a job he held until a spate of politically motivated firings in 2006. Current U.S. attorney Greg Brower has submitted his resignation, paving the way for Bogden to take over his old job. U.S. Sen. Harry Reid praised [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 2:14pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• It’s just so sad

  —Various Things & Stuff

  We wonder — as the Las Vegas Gleaner often does — about why Democrats are so eager and willing to capitulate to Republicans, even when they control both houses of Congress and the White House. Click on the link for a good Glean, and while you’re doing it, ponder this: [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 10:28am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Whew, that’s a relief

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 1
  Mike Slanker, former consultant to John Ensign, has a new client If you’re like us, you’ve been wondering if poor Mike Slanker would ever find work again. It’s tough to come back from the bad publicity he’s had to endure lately. First, the guy gets hired (back in 2007) by his longtime [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 10:18am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Where have all the conservatives gone?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 5
  The most conservative lawmaker in Nevada? It's Assemblyman Ed Goedhart! In Nevada, “Republican” most certainly doesn’t equal “conservative,” or so a conservative group says, after carefully studying votes cast during the 2009 Legislature and ranking 63 lawmakers based on their fealty to conservative principles. Check it: Of four Republican leaders in the [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 9:52am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Buckley out of governor’s race

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 6
  Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley said today she won't be running for governor. Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley said today she was bowing out of the 2010 governor’s race, leaving the field exclusively to Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid. Buckley said she chose not to run in order to spend time with her' [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 10:59am EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Brutal

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 5
  Assemblyman Mark Manendo, disfavored by nearly three-quarters of the Assembly Democratic caucus for advancement to the state Senate. So, what does it say about the esteem of your co-workers, when 71.4 percent of them would rather see somebody else get a promotion over you? Ask Assemblyman Mark Manendo, who wants to run [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 5:38pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• Reid has the race sewn up! Wait, no, he doesn’t!

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 2
  U.S. Sen. Harry Reid U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s election prospects got some national press today, and as usual, it’s a mixed bag for the state’s senior senator. On the one hand, a national publication says he still doesn’t have a top-name opponent, but on the other, a top political observer said [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 5:05pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius

• You are so, um, busted, I guess?

  —Various Things & Stuff

  Number of comments: 3
  New this fall: Petty Crimes, a drama about election violations that are illegal, but not necessarily serious The Nevada Democratic Party today filed a complaint against Republican activist Chuck Muth and his “Dump Reid Political Action Committee,” and it’s quite the exercise in misdemeanor citizen arresty-type stuff. If convicted, Muth could [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 3:56pm EDT
  by Steve Sebelius