Up the Aisles
¿Como se dice Berkley?
May 3rd, 2012
U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley’s “Latinos for Shelley” group made its debut as April ended, and a few things about this effort on behalf of her U.S. Senate campaign are worth noting. Read more »
McDonald: Democrats Are Lovin’ It
April 25th, 2012
No unkindness is meant in saying that Michael McDonald is a political vampire: Others have done everything but drive a stake through his heart, and still he survives. Read more »
Unintended Consequences and the GSA
April 18th, 2012
According to The Daily Caller, which actually reports some news despite being founded by a Republican propagandist and an aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney, some Las Vegas politicians are upset about the recent scandal involving the General Services Administration—not only the profligate spending, but also that House Republican committees are so interested in investigating it. Read more »
Mining for Money, Not Votes
April 11th, 2012
Steven Horsford has come a long way in a hurry. Elected to the state Senate in 2004, he became its Democratic leader before his first term ended. Instead of seeking a third—and, thanks to term limits, final—state Senate term, he’s running for the House. Read more »
While Las Vegas Slept
April 4th, 2012
Rural Nevadans appear to be concerned about something that doesn’t seem to concern all that many Las Vegans. The odd part is that the Las Vegans outnumber the rural Nevadans, and they have the same problem. Read more »
The Ethics Dance
March 28th, 2012
The late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is most remembered for the greatest sentence ever written in a Supreme Court opinion, in which he explained hardcore pornography: “I know it when I see it.” Read more »
Keeping Beers Hopping
March 22nd, 2012
The Las Vegas City Council Ward 2 race turned nasty. Ric Truesdell put out a flier about Bob Beers, the front-runner in the race. Beers sued him for libel and defamation. Beers went on to win. Read more »
New Digs for Empire Comedy Keep it Intimate
March 21st, 2012
When you walk into to the new Empire Comedy Club at Paris, you feel like it shouldn’t work as a space for stand-up. Read more »
Sandoval Sings the Blues and Reds
March 15th, 2012
The ancient curse/proverb says, “May you live in interesting times.” If you’re the governor of Nevada, the times always are interesting. Even more so lately for Brian Sandoval. Interestingly (unintended pun) enough, not all of it is his doing. Read more »
Nevada’s Amnesia
March 8th, 2012
In 1973, Russell Baker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, said, “What the country needs now at the end of the Vietnam War is not amnesty but amnesia.” He called that column, “The Great Forgetting.” Bill Raggio’s memorial service may have demonstrated Nevada’s version of it. Read more »
