Up the Aisles
Beware of Pollsters Bearing Gifts
August 27th, 2012
According to the R-J report, based on a SurveyUSA telephone survey of 869 registered voters statewide, Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney, 47-45. That may be true: The national numbers are close and Nevada tends to mirror those. Read more »
Tarkanian Making it Easy for Horsford
August 16th, 2012
It doesn’t rank with Ferris Bueller’s day off, but Steven Horsford, the state senator running as the Democratic nominee in Congressional District 4, had an interesting week. Read more »
When Harry Met Fallacies
August 9th, 2012
Someday, the national media will understand Harry Reid. Come to think of it, all of us need to work on it. Read more »
Everything Old Is New Again
August 1st, 2012
Here’s the latest news: Nevada is a bellwether state. Want proof? Try watching television for half an hour without seeing Barack Obama or Mitt Romney approving this message. Read more »
Nevada Democrats are Doing it Wrong
July 26th, 2012
In a national report issued by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Kids Count, Nevada ranked 48th in the well-being of children. Read more »
Why Steve and Sheldon are Making a Mistake
July 20th, 2012
If you want to disprove the old adage that the worst publicity is no publicity, consider this headline from a left-leaning website: “Biggest Donor to Romney and GOP did Business With Chinese Mob.” Read more »
Vegas, Macau and the Albatross of Image
July 16th, 2012
In politics, it’s traditional, if not particularly attractive, for the media to make hay of anything connected with a candidate—birth certificates, pet ethics, wives’ hobbies. Read more »
Mining, Cheating and the Meaning of Government
July 12th, 2012
Nevada’s Department of Taxation has found that three big mining companies—Barrick, Eagle Picher and Ormat Nevada—underpaid their taxes by $8.7 million since 2008. Read more »
Heck's Health-Care Problems the Least of it
July 5th, 2012
Republican Rep. Joe Heck is in a tough re-election fight against departing Assembly Speaker John Oceguera. Heck has taken stands related to two recent Supreme Court decisions, but whether they help or hurt him is debatable, and may matter less than a totally different issue that has come up. Read more »
Obamacare, Money and the Future of Nevada
June 29th, 2012
Eight Supreme Court justices agreed that the Affordable Care Act has nothing to do with taxes, but Chief Justice John Roberts disagreed to tip the scales to 5-4 to uphold Obamacare, née Romneycare, over the frighteningly medieval dissent of four right-wingers. Now comes the question: What will the cost be for Nevada? Read more »
