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Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28, 2007 Ensign mystery deepens … or not By Steve Sebelius Well, it's now official, people. U.S. Sen. John Ensign was not the senator who put an anonymous hold on a bill that would require immediate, electronic disclosure of campaign finances. Or at least that's what Ensign now says.
After Ensign tried to introduce a totally unrelated amendment — forcing outside groups that file ethics complaints [...]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Wonders never cease! By Steve Sebelius We've been fairly harsh in our criticism of U.S. Sen. John Ensign, and we don't apologize for it. Ensign's actions with respect to, well, most everything, make us question his fitness for office almost daily. But not everything our junior senator does is bad.
For example, we've praised Ensign in the past for a bill [...]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 SCHIPing in By Steve Sebelius So the House of Representatives approved the State Children's Health Insurance Program 265 to 159 last night, with the help of our very own U.S. Reps. Shelley Berkley and Jon Porter. (We keep seeing references to somebody named Dean Heller in our congressional delegation — does anybody out there know anything about that? Anyway, whoever [...]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 John Ensign is (still) full of shit By Steve Sebelius Did U.S. Sen. John Ensign place a secret hold on a bill that would require senators to file their campaign finance reports electronically?
It's not entirely clear. But what is clear is that Ensign is most definitely full of shit.
First, some background: S. 223 is the bill in question, heavily backed by a group [...]
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Monday, September 24, 2007 Yes, but… By Steve Sebelius This story, published Saturday by the Review-Journal, contains the following line: "The Review-Journal reported Friday morning that the foundation's executive director, John Jasonek, got $129,000 for 12 hours of work per week between Sept. 1, 2004 and Aug. 31, 2005. He received another $134,000 in the 2004 tax year as head of the teachers association." [...]
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Monday, September 24, 2007 Time to use that shepherd's crook! By Steve Sebelius So a Roman Catholic priest admits that he struck a woman over the head with a bottle of wine, causing severe bodily harm. He admits it. No "innocent until proven guilty" canards here. He did it, and of that, there is no question.
The Rev. George Chaanine could face up to 15 years in prison [...]
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Monday, September 24, 2007 Quick Hits: Quotable Quotes from recent days By Steve Sebelius Regular readers know that we like to make fun of stupid things people say and do in our own words. But sometimes, mockery requires a quote. So how about a collection of recent doozies, with some of our own flavor tossed in? (We culled these quotes from the pages of the Review-Journal and Sun.) Here [...]
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Monday, September 24, 2007 R-J finally reveals truth By Steve Sebelius For the first and last time ever, Review-Journal Road Warrior Omar Sofradzija's Sunday column carried a dateline: East Lansing, Mich. It was Sofradzija's swan song, now that he's left to take a job as editorial adviser to The State News.
It was also the first indication to R-J readers that the guy who's been answering [...]
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Friday, September 21, 2007 Corey Levitan has been wronged! By Steve Sebelius As you readers know, we've got mixed feelings about the Review-Journal's Corey Levitan, author of the weekly "Fear and Loafing" column in which he — over and over and over again — writes the same story about doing various jobs, usually badly. (He's even got a website dedicated to it.)
On the one hand, we've [...]
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 There's just so much to do! By Steve Sebelius Say what you will about our fair city, there's never a shortage of things to do. For example, the Culinary Union Local 226 is going to hold a celebration at 6 p.m. Friday at the Culinary Training Academy (710 W. Lake Mead Blvd., in North Las Vegas) commemorating the successful six-year strike against the Frontier [...]
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