Former Nevada Republican chairwoman Sue Lowden today sent a letter to Nevada's two Catholic bishops urging them to oppose U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's health care bill because she believes it's not strong enough on the abortion issue.
Lowden, one of a dozen Republicans in next year's U.S. Senate primary, [...]
Former Reno City Councilman Jim Pilzner, a Republican, has launched a campaign for Assemblyman Ty Cobb's seat. Cobb is leaving the seat to run for state Senate.
Reno nurse Ellie Lopez Bowlan, a Republican, also is running in Assembly District 26.
Pilzner is a long-time Reno businessman who was [...]
Former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be stopping in Reno next month to sign copies of her new book "Going Rogue."
Palin will be at the Reno Costco on Harvard Way on Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. The book signing will be open to the first 1,000 [...]
Gov. Jim Gibbons' administration this week launched a redesigned Web site on the stimulus funding. The original Web site earned a poor rating from a national group urging transparency on how money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being spent.
The new site includes quite a bit of' [...]
Nearly 18 months after the Republican state convention was dramatically aborted after a contingent of Ron Paul supporters took control, a missing box of uncounted delegate ballots has been discovered and will be counted on Friday.
One might ask why this matters. Nevada ultimately sent a delegation to the [...]
Conservative activist and former U.S. Senate candidate Richard Ziser filed an initiative petition today that seeks to outlaw abortion in Nevada.
As first reported this afternoon by Jon Ralston, Ziser has organized a committee called Personhood Nevada to campaign for the petition, which would amend the Nevada Constitution to [...]
The fact that Vice President Joe Biden was in Reno today on an official visit to tout the stimulus didn't stop him from taking the opportunity to stump for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., as well.
Reid faces a difficult re-election bid next year with an extremely' [...]
After taking the summer off, Gov. Jim Gibbons' former chief of staff Josh Hicks has accepted a new position. He'll be opening a Reno office for the Colorado-based firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, which merged in 2007 with political powerhouse Frank Schreck's law firm.
Hicks resigned from Gibbons' office shortly' [...]
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian will be campaigning in Reno on Saturday with Chuck and Sally Health, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's parents.
They're planning to camp out at the UNR-UNLV tailgate party from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and then head to a 6 p.m. meet-and-greet' [...]
Republican political strategist Robert Uithoven resigned Friday from the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce's political action committee.
The chamber took some heat last election cycle when it appointed Uithoven, Gov. Jim Gibbons' former campaign manager and a conservative purist, to its PAC board. Critics contended the chamber, under new leadership, was taking' [...]
Two expected candidates have officially announced they will seek the Senate District 2 seat being vacated by Sen. Maurice Washington, R-Sparks, who can't run again because of term limits.
Assemblyman Don Gustavson, R-Sparks, sent a press release last week officially announcing his bid. Gustavson is a staunchly anti-tax five-term assemblyman.' [...]
A spokesman for Gov. Jim Gibbons said today the governor isn't a fan of the proposed dump for California garbage outside Winnemucca either, but advised U.S. Sen. Harry Reid to lobby his colleagues from the Golden State if he really wants to stop it.
"It's federally regulated, the movement of trash,"' [...]
In a roundtable discussion with about 20 health care professionals this afternoon, U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Reno, said health care reform cannot include a public option and said Democrats would have a "tough time" getting the bill passed if they resort to using the reconciliation option.
If Democrats rely [...]
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's comment during an interview Friday that U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy's death would help health care reform efforts has received some national attention. Politico picked up the comment, which was linked to on the Drudge Report, and it spread from there.
I've received a few' [...]
In a bit of an ironic twist, U.S. Rep. Dean Heller, R-Carson City, said today he believes the death of one of the nation's leading Democrats will lead to a shut out of Republican input in the health care bill.
Speaking to the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial board this afternoon, Heller [...]
During this afternoon's tele-town hall meeting on health care, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid was asked how the public option would be funded.
Reid said he anticipated the public option would cost the government very little because participants would pay the costs of the premiums.
"Anybody that fell into" [...]
Seems any Republican who wants to challenge U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has a poll showing they've got a strong advantage in a would-be race. Republican Danny Tarkanian is the latest to release results of his own internal polling.
The one-day tracking poll released by his campaign firm Chariot,' [...]
Chief Judge Roger Hunt has confirmed U.S. District Judge Brian Sandoval has resigned. His resignation becomes effective on Sept. 15.
Hunt said it wouldn't be appropriate for Sandoval to comment on the reasons for his departure or his future political aspirations until his resignation becomes effective. So don't expect [...]
U.S. District Judge Brian Sandoval is expected to resign his lifetime appointment to the federal bench today, sources say. Sandoval is widely expected to re-enter politics most likely announcing that he will run for governor next year.
Sandoval, a former attorney [...]
Former USA Today political correspondent Jill Lawrence, now a columnist for Politics Daily, published a rather robust interview with U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., from a 19-minute car ride in Las Vegas yesterday. (Hat tip to my pal JR for sending it out this morning.)
Reid again proved [...]
