The pledge is sure taking a beating in Nevada this year.
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It may seem ironic, so deep into the information age, that a panel discussion about censorship would still be necessary. After all, the Internet has given us access to everything from the complete text of previously banned books to the gigantic document dumps of Wikileaks, a world of previously secret information available to anybody with a computer, smartphone or tablet.
Ah, presidential debates. Those special times when we learn there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, that Sen. Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy, that Ronald Reagan refused to take advantage of the youth and inexperience of Walter Mondale, and that George H.W. Bush was, well, kind of bored.
The first debate in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race is in the books, and it wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas. In fact, it wasn’t much of anything beyond a live-action political ad mercilessly drawn out over an hour.
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Democratic state Senate District 9 candidate Justin Jones, a lawyer, found himself in a quandary last year.
President Barack Obama is winning, going away! No, wait, he’s winning, but by a slimmer margin. No, hold on, he’s tied with Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Well, now Mitt Romney’s done it: He’s lost U.S. Sen. Dean Heller.
In 1987, when longtime Las Vegas Councilman Ron Lurie took over as mayor, he inherited a City Hall with scattered initiatives, where people were pulling in different directions and not always telling each other what they were doing.
In 2009, even before President Barack Obama took office, he met with leaders of the House and Senate to discuss a massive stimulus package to rescue the economy from a devastating recession. The package would include tax cuts, but also spending on infrastructure.
The fact that there’s tension between U.S. Sens. Harry Reid and Dean Heller on the issue of Internet gambling has been clear for some time. But it was brought into stark relief during a fundraiser Reid held in Las Vegas recently for former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, who’s looking to return to Washington.
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