The real question about former Clark County Commissioner Chip Maxfield’s recently ended job at the defunct Clean Water Coalition is not why he was paid a salary or consulting fees for years after the agency lost its reason to exist.
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STEVE SEBELIUS
It was clear earlier this year that something was up when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid again nominated District Judge Elissa Cadish for the federal bench.
Back in the days when I was a police reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, I once drove down to the records division of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to request a criminal history report.
In the closing days of the oh-so-close 2010 U.S. Senate race between Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley and then-appointed Republican incumbent Dean Heller, the Heller campaign hit on a winning issue.
CARSON CITY
If you think the oddest thing that happened during the first week of the Legislature involved Assemblyman Steven Brooks, you missed the real drama.
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CARSON CITY
According to Assemblyman Steven Brooks, I am “the only man with integrity around here.”
At the tail end of the 2011 Legislature, the state seemed headed for a standoff over Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget. Then the Nevada Supreme Court stepped in.
President Barack Obama got cheers in Las Vegas on Tuesday when he announced the purpose of his quick visit: “I’m here today because the time has come for common-sense, comprehensive immigration reform.”
In early January 2012, I objected to President Obama’s use of his recess appointment powers to fill government jobs that were being intentionally left vacant by a filibustering Senate minority.
As reporters chased a mute, hooded, cane-wielding Assemblyman Steven Brooks from the Legislative Building in Carson City Wednesday – and then resumed the hunt as he got off a plane here in Las Vegas – it became instantly clear that this eventually must end.
The truest thing said thus far about the increasingly bizarre saga of Assemblyman Steven Brooks, D-North Las Vegas, comes from former state archivist Guy Rocha, a man who has seen almost everything.
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