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No tax study for Nevada

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

A controversial study on taxes will not be completed, because the top-tier research company hired to complete it "dropped the ball," state Sen. Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said today. Moody's Analytics missed deadlines in June and July to have two parts of a study on Nevada's quality of life and tax

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AG beats CityLife in court! Darn her legal dark magic!

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today denied a request for an en banc hearing concerning a lawsuit over a law that bans brothel advertising in Nevada counties where prostitution is against the law. Las Vegas CityLife -- which formerly accepted such advertising -- is among the appellants, who

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Local woman makes it big

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Elizabeth Crum, editor of the Nevada News Bureau and a conservative blogger, has been tapped by National Review Online as part of the magazine's coverage of the 2010 elections. Crum will be NRO's Nevada correspondent, providing updates on the nation's most-watched contest, pitting U.S. Sen. Harry Reid against former Assemblywoman

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Kenny Guinn: A true Republican, but a statesman as well

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Editor's note: This column appears in this week's Las Vegas CityLife. "I don't wear an R on my hat for Republican, and I don't wear a D for Democrat. I wear a P, for people." -- Former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn Since his tragic and untimely death July

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Fingers pointing in Race to the Top fiasco

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

This time, it was Harry Reid who started it. After it was announced that Nevada would not receive any Race to the Top education grant funds, Reid quickly placed the blame at the feet of Gov. Jim Gibbons. Here's what he said in a statement:

I join Nevada’s students

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‘Nevada has lost a great man’

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Former Gov. Kenny Guinn was eulogized today with high praise from a former aide, a former colleague and a friend as a man of integrity, hard work and dedication to his adopted home state of

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Gov. Kenny Guinn, RIP

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Funeral services for former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Joseph Husband of Mary Catholic Church, 7260 W. Sahara Ave. They are open to the public. Guinn died on Thursday at

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Rory Reid slams Sandoval on education

Monday, July 26th, 2010

While Brian Sandoval, Jim Gibbons and Mike Montandon were fighting out the GOP primary, Rory Reid was quietly and efficiently raising money. And now we see to what use it will be put: Reid has a new ad that slams Sandoval on the subject of education, which Reid clearly thinks

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Are they spoiled or aren’t they?

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Sharron Angle is very sorry for calling the unemployed "spoiled" by virtue of the fact they receive unemployment insurance compensation checks. So says the Review-Journal today, after Angle actually showed up for an editorial board meeting at the newspaper. The relevant line:

As for Angle calling the unemployed

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Coburn spokes has bad memory or is lying

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Editor's note: This post has been edited from its original version to correct an error. By now, you've heard that U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, one of our own John Ensign's former roommates at the churchy C Street house in Washington, D.C., has turned over a number of e-mails to Justice Department

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