Up the Aisles
What the Numbers in Nevada’s House Race Don’t Prove
September 16th, 2011
Kate Marshall lost to Mark Amodei by 20 percentage points in the race in Congressional District 2. What does it mean? Read more »
LA Comedy Club full circle at Cabo Wabo
September 14th, 2011
When we last talked to folks at the L.A. Comedy Club, they had ended a two-year stint at the Four Queens and eyed a move back to the Strip. Read more »
Testing the Test Site
September 13th, 2011
Got an opinion on what the federal government should do with the Nevada National Security Site, the chunk of land northwest of Las Vegas formerly known as the Nevada Test Site? Read more »
Happy Talk on the Education Front
September 7th, 2011
This just in: Higher education in Nevada is a sinking ship. It’s not really breaking news for those of us who live here that the economy has not been kind to UNLV, UNR, the College of Southern Nevada et. al. Read more »
The Democratic-Republicans
September 2nd, 2011
The many names for the first political party created by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison included Republicans (not the same as the modern ones), Jeffersonians, Democrats and some combination thereof, including Democratic-Republicans. Unfortunately for Kate Marshall, it isn’t 1798, and being a Democratic-Republican doesn’t necessarily work. Read more »
Traditional politics, untraditional race
August 26th, 2011
Most Southern Nevadans probably are paying little attention to the race in the 2nd Congressional District. That’s understandable—only part of the county is in that district—but it’s still too bad. A few developments provide interesting lessons and parallels: Read more »
Byron Georgiou and the powers that be
August 18th, 2011
Byron Georgiou, who started his career in elective office by running for the U.S. Senate, was about to disappear politically without even leaving a laundry mark. Instead, he bailed out of a losing battle with Rep. Shelley Berkley and the Democratic Party hierarchy. A thought or two on what it means or meant. Read more »
The China syndrome
August 2nd, 2011
Macau long since surpassed Las Vegas as the world’s biggest gambling center as measured by total revenue. But Macau and the rest of China hold important meaning for Nevada in other ways. Read more »
The Northern Seat or the Rural Seat?
July 22nd, 2011
If you live in Clark County, you may have the tendency not to pay much attention to the race in Congressional District 2. It actually includes parts of Clark County, but not much of the urban area. And it’s well worth your while. Read more »
One Vegas on the rebound, one moribund
July 14th, 2011
Charles Dickens never visited Southern Nevada (that he died in 1870, when Las Vegas consisted of a couple of ranches, may explain that), but when he wrote A Tale of Two Cities, he could have had Las Vegas and North Las Vegas in mind. Read more »
