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Why would anyone in Nevada care about a hearing Tuesday before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade? Because the subject matter is "The State of Online Gaming." An internal House Energy panel memo says this will come up:  Is Federal legislation necessary to address the developing patchwork of State regulations?     How effective is enforcement of remote gaming in jurisdictions that have legalized it?  How are States preparing to deal with the issue?   Majority...
Welcome to the Weekly Report. This week: 1.  How many businesses will TEI effect? I have an exclusive chart for you that shows almost 90 percent of the state’ businesses would be unaffected. 2   Can Flores win the LG’s race? Yes, but what do the insiders think? 3.  Smartest/dumbest moves of the week 4.  Sizing up the sheriff’s race with two Metro insiders and one outsider. 5. Should we take Sandoval 2016 seriously – he was mentioned by right (Karl Rove) and left (Anamarie Cox) last week? 6....
In case anyone hasn't received the message yet -- and I have no idea who you are -- state Sen. Mark Hutchison is The Chosen One for lieutenant governor. In his latest fundraiser, a Dec. 18 event hyped today via email by his campaign, Hutchison has the three top Republicans, gaming types and the widow of a man who was very close to Hutchison's opponent, Sue Lowden. Yes, Dale Raggio, whose husband, Bill, once was on the board of Lowden's casino company and mentored her as a state senator, is on...
Assemblywoman Lucy Flores is hardly known by Nevada voters but has a compelling life story and “would have a good chance of winning an election against (state Sen.) Mark Hutchison,” according to a national pollster who surveyed the lieutenant governor’s race for her. Geoff Garin tested positives and negatives for Flores and Hutchison, who still has a primary with Sue Lowden to overcome, and found that she would lose, 41-35, in an initial heat but would nip Hutchison, 46-43, after voters were...
I am trying to help the Republicans land the 2016 national convention in Vegas, but they are so….helpless. As I have previously declared, I want my city to get the convention because it would finally get rid of all the Rodney Dangerfield references, because it would force everyone to pronounce the state’s name correctly and, well, because it would be good for a Nevada journalist with a television program. Not necessarily in that order. But why, oh why are these people trying to sabotage my...
Good morning, everyone. Really, is this what it has come to, where Twitter gets excited (hyperbole alert) by a picture of Sue Lowden with Brian Sandoval? I know it’s the slow season, dear Flashees, but is this grammatically and politically incorrect photo of the governor with the foe of his anointed choice for lieutenant governor really indicative of anything? Do people expect Sandoval to just ignore Lowden? Do you people KNOW Gov. Sunny? On the other hand, kudos to Lowden for finding a...

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