Whoa, Nevada Legislature! Slow your roll! It seems that a coalition is building to switch from Nevada’s chaotic-but-traditional caucus system for picking delegates to the national conventions to a primary election system instead.
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A Tweet regarding an amendment brought by U.S. Sen. Dean Heller brought a heap of criticism from all quarters today. Here’s the story, in fuller context.
The spring meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition — sometimes called the “Sheldon Adelson Primary,” because it’s held at his hotel on the Strip and features Republican candidates addressing his No. 1 issue, Israel — was packed this weekend.
In December, President Barack Obama said that he wished to see Iran ultimately become a “very successful regional power.”
“Sit your ass down!” — Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas
If 2016 is going to be the year of the Latino, then the Democratic primary in Congressional District 4 just became ground zero.
Attorney General Adam Laxalt is pursuing perjury charges against a Democratic candidate whom a judge ruled didn’t actually live in the district she wanted to represent in the Assembly.
The Nevada state Senate, on what Majority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Henderson, called “an historic day,” passed Gov. Brian Sandoval’s business license fee plan to better fund education in the Silver State.
Panelists at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books take on the wealth gap, and argue for a government response that will help us all.
A Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief invokes hisses (yes, old-school hisses) after he embraces one of the worst decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court ever, Bush v. Gore.
As speculation runs rampant, we settle the issue once and for all!
Ah, spring, when a young lawmaker’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of throttling members of the other party who won’t let him hold votes or bring amendments to bills on the Senate floor.
See Hillary ride in a van! Watch her meet everyday Americans! Witness her ordering a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Which she did wearing shades, as did her chief aide Huma Abedin, yielding security camera pictures that made them look (to borrow from Karl Rove) like fugitives on the lam, wanted in seven states for a failed foreign policy.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid calls the field of Republican presidential candidates “losers,” but it’s not the first time he’s used that word.
Back in the heady days of the mid- to late-1990s, Nevada’s voters were in a particularly anti-democratic mood.
