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Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Tuesday Quick Hits: Biden rocks! By Steve Sebelius Normally, readers, we don’t delve too deeply into political fundraising stories. For one, they’re pretty dry. For another, we know that likability is the No. 1 factor in determining who gets elected, not money. And for a third, we find that they are generally only interesting to political insiders, campaign operatives and elected officials, and [...]
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Monday, July 16, 2007 Even more Monday Quick Hits: Triumph of hope! By Steve Sebelius You know why we love the Sunday Review-Journal? (Of course for the celebrity trivia in Parade magazine, but besides that!) It’s for the inspirational stories, of course! And this Sunday was surely no exception.
The paper did a friendly profile of the Slankers, just two crazy kids, following their dreams (and an estimated $21,367 monthly [...]
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Monday, July 16, 2007 Monday Quick Hits: Beers scandal analysis! By Steve Sebelius Apparently, there’s a leaker among the lobbyists! And that leaker showed the Review-Journal’s Molly Ball an e-mail, sent by political consultant Robert Uithoven, that solicits hosts for a fundraiser this month for state Sen. Bob Beers. But get this: The e-mail was purportedly sent before the legal prohibition on post-legislature fundraising had expired!
Beers, for his [...]
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 This just in: Victory! By Steve Sebelius The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a bit more robust today, following U.S. District Court Judge James Mahan’s ruling for summary judgment on behalf of the plaintiffs in Coyote Publishing et. al. v. Heller.
For those who don’t know, this litigation — filed by Allen Lichtenstein, general counsel to the American Civil Liberties [...]
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Take a monorail ride into the future! By Steve Sebelius According to the Review-Journal’s Omar Sofradzija, who keeps track of these things, the Las Vegas Monorail is in financial dire straits. (Congratulations, by the way, to Sofradzija, who is leaving the R-J soon to become the editorial adviser for The State News at Michigan State University.)
It seems that poor income figures have caused Fitch [...]
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Quick Hits for Wednesday: Gibbons innocent? By Steve Sebelius Editor’s note: We were all set to blog on Tuesday, readers, when a technological glitch that we call "this shitty network our IT department installed" crapped out on us. As a result, we’ve had to go back and add to or expand our post, based on recent developments, to bring you the most up-to-date blogification [...]
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 Time to dump 2-party system By Len Butcher I was watching one of the cable news shows today and saw results of a poll asking people if they thought the campaigning and coverage of presidential candidates began too early, seeing as how the election is still almost a year and a half away. I was surprised to see that 80 percent of those [...]
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Monday, July 9, 2007 Monday afternoon Quick Hits: Um, what? By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff just love to read the news releases that issue forth from Gov. Jim Gibbons‘ office. You just never know when you’re going to go from the ridiculous (a midnight swearing in was necessary to head off terrorists!) to the sublime (first lady Dawn Gibbons will visit a drug treatment [...]
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Monday, July 9, 2007 Quick Hits: Marshall marshals the missing Krolicki cash! By Steve Sebelius Thank you, Kate Marshall! Nevada’s state treasurer has succeeded in recovering about $95,000 that the state was overbilled during the term of then-Treasurer (and now Lt. Gov.) Brian Krolicki. (The audit concerns Krolicki’s stewardship of the state’s College Savings Program, and it concluded he broke state laws regarding handling of money.)
Although a contract [...]
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Thursday, July 5, 2007 Post-Fourth Quick Hits: Prisons are expensive, R-J learns! By Steve Sebelius Nevada’s prisons are expensive, and are going to start eating up a big chunk of the state’s budget, even crowding out money for things like education, the Review-Journal has learned. That’s quite a revelation: Not that prisons are expensive and getting more so, but that a newspaper is following up on a story done by [...]
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