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Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 George Harris is a civil rights crusader By Steve Sebelius You know what offends George Harris? (Oh, sorry: Harris is a Republican party operative who has an almost unbroken record of failures in Nevada politics.)
Anyway, you know what offends him? Racism, that's what!
Harris is quoted in John L. Smith's column in the Review-Journal today, objecting to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's alleged refusal [...]
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 That's odd By Steve Sebelius Yesterday, we brought you the nice farewell statement proffered by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid in the wake of the retirement of U.S. Sen. Trent Lott. It was full of praise, and Reid said Lott was a "true friend" the most "pleasant" of senators and was a "distinguished public servant."
So what gives with U.S. Sen. [...]
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Monday, November 26, 2007 They've got to be kidding … (but they're not!) By Steve Sebelius Gov. Jim Gibbons record of appointments is pretty dismal. He kicks the only McCarran International Airport rep off the state's Homeland Security commission, but appoints the lawyer for a bankrupt subprime lender to oversee mortgages in Nevada. We once joked that he'd probably put Dr. Jack Kevorkian on the state's Commission on Aging, but now [...]
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Monday, November 26, 2007 Quick Hits for Monday By Steve Sebelius We've scanned the paper so you don't have to, people, which is really a much more difficult task than you can possibly imagine. But we do it to come up with Quick Hits! Here we go!
Hey, Gov. Jim Gibbons. We found $105,000 that you can put toward cutting the state budget! It's squirreled away [...]
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Monday, November 26, 2007 People like Gibbons? No way By Steve Sebelius So apparently Gov. Jim Gibbons saw a recent uptick in the number of people who think he's doing a good job, i.e. the mentally retarded. According to a poll in the Reno Gazette-Journal reported by our friend and colleague, Anjeanette Damon, 40 percent of people approve of Gibbons' job performance.
That's right: 40 percent. If it [...]
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Friday, November 23, 2007 Post-Thanksgiving good, bad and ugly By Steve Sebelius If you're anything like us, you're still recovering from that holiday meal (nothing cures the turkey hangover like more turkey, people!). So we'll keep it semi-brief today:
The good: The Las Vegas City Council is taking a step in the right direction by giving council members raises. (They won't take effect until the next round [...]
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Give thanks, but remember the poor By Len Butcher Thanksgiving. That day for most Americans to eat as much as they can as early as possible so that they can have time to digest all that food and be ready for their 5 a.m. assault on any one of a hundred Super Sales the following morning.
I hope, however, that those same Americans will take [...]
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 A last resort? By Steve Sebelius We found this story from today's Las Vegas Sun very interesting, and not just because it reveals that MGM Mirage was the lone sticking point in discussing a potential increase in the gross gambling tax with the Nevada State Education Association. (When MGM Mirage Chairman Terry Lanni says he wants to discuss reforming the state's [...]
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 This just in: Bush lied, ex-flack charges By Steve Sebelius Not exactly breaking news, we know. But former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is charging in a new book that he was deliberately misled by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney when he was told that top White House officials knew nothing about the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
The [...]
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Tucker Carlson loves the whores By Steve Sebelius On TV, he plays a dorky, somewhat obnoxious, interruption-prone pundit possessed of a tremendous sense of righteousness. In real life, however, Tucker Carlson loves the whores.
Or at least that's the story that emerged from my colleague Anjeanette Damon's blog earlier today, when the eagle-eyed Reno reporter caught Carlson emerging from a limo with Northern [...]
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