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TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Latinos and women key to the election?
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 659
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 87
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 259
Good morning, everyone. I wondered last night on “Ralston Reports” if my biennial hope for the best in Carson City might actually be rewarded (begone ye cynics!) because even Michael Roberson, the incoming upper house...
If you missed it, the Las Vegas Review-Journal today gave yours truly many column inches in its "Nevadan At Work" feature.
It's a testament to the reporter, Jennifer Robison, who did a straight-up piece, and the editor (Mike Hengel) and publisher (Bob Brown) for green-lighting it. (A far cry from the drefocked duo who used to run the place, one of whom actually took to the "comments" section.)
It is time to drop the quote marks around the "newspaper" now?
Far be it from lil ole me to disagree with Nate Silver, the polling guru who has gained even more celebrity this cycle because he correctly foretold President Obama's victory.
But Silver, in his latest post criticizes how internal numbers can often mislead the media -- and the candidate. Although that is true -- and certainly was in Mitt Romney's case, as Silver points out -- the real story here is one that is general to the media -- reporters should know which pollsters to trust -- and...
Welcome to this holiday season edition of The Weekly Report. There will be one more before the new year, two weekends from now.
Today I feature my choices for the Top 10 Political Stories of 2012. Enjoy.
THE TOP 10 POLITICAL STORIES OF 2012
It’s always 10, the top 10, the 10 most, the 10 biggest.
When it comes to end-of-the-year lists – and that time has come – it’s often hard to find just 10, much less put them in the right order. But that is what I have done below (OK, I cheated with some...
I delivered this rant on "Ralston Reports" on Friday -- the video is elsewhere on the site, a couple of minutes into the program:
April Mastroluca’s resignation from the Assembly reinforces what I have long thought about our Carson City Gang of 63:
It’s time to end the citizen Legislature in Nevada. And it’s time to end the biennial Legislature in Nevada.
If my sources are right, Mastroluca is leaving because she couldn’t afford to feed her family by sojourning in Carson City four months every...
First it was Gov. Brian Sandoval moving to the middle on immigration issues.
And now, just a few moments ago, the Senate Republicans, apparently kicking off their 2014 effort to retake the upper house (OK, I'm cynical), issued this release:
The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, with the support of Governor Brian Sandoval, announced this week that its policy would be to honor the employment authorization card granted to successful applicants under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (...
April Mastroluca, a Democratic assemblywoman poised to play a key role in the 2013 Legislature, will send a letter to Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday announcing her resignation.
The stunning move comes after the potential Ways and Means chairwoman decided, she says, that she could no longer serve because of what she described as family issues. She declined to elaborate, but she sounded shaken during a phone conversation.
I had been told by a couple of good sources that her employer, the national...
I understand that Hispanic advocates are ecstatic about the record turnout in Nevada this cycle, as much as 19 percent of the vote, according to exit polls.
Indeed, the Latino landslide for President Obama helped him easily win Nevada again. Exit polls showed Obama won Hispanics by 50 points or more, contributing to his more than 6 percentage point win here.
But America's Voice, a leading national group advocating for immigration reform went a bit too far in its post-election hype about Nevada...