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WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week.
3. Thoughts on the Ruben Kihuen hiring by CSN? Where do you fall in the spectrum of "Leave the poor guy alone, it was a long time ago" to "How in the world could CSN do THIS with a guy who has not repented and has no productive relationships"?
4. This audit is really something: https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week.
3. Does the travel story that highlighted legislative (and AG) travel have any legs? Do people care? Could it affect races, careers?
4. What's your take on this story: https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/as-wife-discloses-abortion-story-nevada-gop-senate-hopeful-sam-brown-opposes-federal-ban
Moving? Cynical? No effect on...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week.
3. Lombardo's three-year plan: Good, bad and ugly? Substantive agenda or smart politics or both? Any other thoughts? Does it matter?
4. Thoughts on if RFK Jr. gets on the ballot here: Could he do well? Who would he siphon from?
Not very robust response as of midday Sunday from the insiders, but what I got was often excellent...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week.
3. Odds Jara actually is gone this time? How does this play out, and how much does CCEA influence what happens? Beyond another pelt for Vellardita, does this really change much at the district? Can you name any concrete things the school board could do to change the district's trajectory? How much of this is Jara's fault, and how...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week.
3. Is Nevada going to matter at all in the presidential nominating contests? Or do we have to wait for the inevitable Biden-Trump rematch in the general to matter?
4. Commissioners taking five-figure comps to F1 and claiming it was "educational" on their forms and in their explanations: Big deal? Little deal? Dumb? Ho-hum? Does...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week.
3. Anything jump out at you in the campaign reports? Anything that could matter?
4. Quick thoughts -- a few words on these things:
Robin Titus as Senate GOP leader
Three Supreme Court justices unopposed
Conine, Ford and Aguilar raise six figures: What are they telling donors it is for?
This tweet: https://x.com/tsegerblom/status/...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week.
3. Can the CCEA qualify the petition outlawing strikes? Would it pass? What kind of precedent does it set, what kind of impact on the state?
4. Carolyn Goodman's last State of the City reminds me that we are nearing the end of 25 years of that family as the titular heads of the city. What legacy do they leave behind after a...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week.
3. It's 2024: What's your outlook for this year? Will things get better or worse and why? General thoughts and specific reasons. Be as narrow or broad as you like.
4. Most likely/least likely to happen in 2024:
Jim Marchant becomes GOP nominee for Senate
Dems get supermajority in Carson
Nevada goes red in the presidential race
A...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
Last one of the year, folks, so it's awards/predictions time. Give out the ones below and add any awards/predictions you want to dole out:
Biggest political story in Nevada of 2023?
Most effective politician in Nevada in 2023?
Least effective politician in Nevada in 2023?
Rising star of 2023 in Nevada?
Most powerful person, public or private sector, in Nevada in 2023?
Thing that happened in 2023 that makes you most optimistic about the future...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week.
3. I suppose it was inevitable that a campus shooting finally made it here. Besides anger and sadness, what was your reaction? What stood out to you, if anything? Can anything stop something like this from happening on an open campus? You think there is anything the gov or lawmakers could/should do?
4. Ford's indictment of the...