A quick roundup of some politically noteworthy things that happened while I was enjoying at little R&R.
Opinion Columns
As predictable as the Earth’s revolution around the sun is the reaction of Las Vegas to the prick of an outsider’s pen.
Republican attorney Becky Harris is challenging fellow lawyer and state Senate District 9 incumbent Justin Jones, D-Las Vegas, in a race that could determine which party controls the state Senate.
Nevada’s congressional delegation was divided late last month when the House voted 225-201 to sue President Barack Obama for allegedly violating his constitutional duties by delaying a key provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Nobody should blame Tesla Motors for seeking big bucks from the state of Nevada in exchange for building its $5 billion “gigafactory” in an industrial park not far from Reno.
In late May 2013, news spread like wildfire through the Legislative Building that one-time power broker Harvey Whittemore had been convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The inevitable question one takes away from a conversation with congressional candidate and Nevada Assemblyman Cresent Hardy is this: How was this guy ever the liberal in the Republican primary?
Congressmen Joe Heck and Mark Amodei are among the 11 Republicans who stood against their party’s majority last week in voting to continue action which lets otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants whose parents brought them to America avoid deportation.
Nevada, like many places in America, badly needs a strong, vibrant, high-profile chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Instead of voting to authorize a legally questionable, highly dubious lawsuit against President Barack Obama, they could have stood up, said enough is enough, and voted no.
Never let it be said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — and his top staffers — ignore my blog, SlashPolitics.
The last time we checked in with the anti-Education Initiative crowd, they were touting studies that predicted Las Vegas would look pretty much as it did in Resident Evil: Apocalypse if voters OK’d the measure.
The good news is, an elected official in Southern Nevada finally found the courage to call for a tax increase to pay for a public need.
So, you think you know the crazy world of Nevada politics and business? You think you can separate reality from the bizarre conspiracy theories that multiply like quagga mussels? Put your knowledge to the test with this quiz:
