I'll be taking a couple days off in order to move, readers, so the blog will be silent until next week's oh-so-special session. I'd rather be turning phrases than lifting boxes, but it's got to be done. See you from Carson City next week!
Recent columns
Who would Jesus tax?
Add Jesus Christ to the list of President Barack Obama's economic advisers.
Paul sees opportunity even as government expands
It's an almost immutable law of nature that government tends toward expansion, not contraction, absent a seminal event such as a revolution.
Caucus looms, Nevada still Romney country
Do you know what Newt Gingrich was doing while Nevada was suffering through the foreclosure crisis? Cashing in, of course!
Ward 6 voters get the final say on Steve Ross today
How's this for a bizarre: The turnout for today's truncated Steve Ross recall election could exceed the ballot total of the 2009 vote that kept him on the Las Vegas City Council.
No Mack attack
Look out, old Macky's back!
Natural gas is great, but Nevadans need jobs
President Barack Obama got a fairly good reception Thursday when he showed up in Las Vegas to repeat some of the highlights of his State of the Union speech.
Wolfson is new D.A. -- with some dissent
Before the Clark County Commission voted to appoint Steve Wolfson as district attorney Tuesday, several angry constituents protested that the county was engaged in a "dog and pony show."
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It's a new year, a new decade, and now, a new political blog. Welcome to Slash Politics.I've been writing about Las Vegas and Nevada politics in one form or another since 1993, when I was hired at the Las Vegas Sun to cover the police beat. Since then, I've covered
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- Obama campaign manager Jim Messina out with e-mail justifying taking of super PAC dollars, asking for money. Fire with fire, I suppose.
- @jamespmanley Oh, God. Did he find a Bible verse at the prayer breakfast to support super PACs now, too? http://t.co/XMLWdiGz
- RT @RJVegasBeat: A little piece of #BurningMan coming to #vegas: http://t.co/vXkWiOoF // Great. Just what we need: Hippies!
- Obama joins ranks of people benefiting from the unlimited fundraising of super PACs. http://t.co/wRLsHhO5
- @MrsT106 on #8NewsNow: The caucus was not a joke. No, but Clark County ballot counting was! Bazinga!
- @HarryReid's Laughlin-Bullhead City bridge earmark part of WaPo investigative report on conflict pork. http://t.co/3Yfn4AXX
- Hey, peeps: If you missed me on KNPR's "State of Nevada" this morning talking about caucus chaos, you can hear it here: http://t.co/r2Wkp04B
- Caucus chaos! Is there a better way? I'll chat about the Long Count of Nevada's caucuses on #8NewsNow at 6.
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