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Term Limits News Article Drenched With Irony

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Here’s the article, published on page 5B of Sunday’s Review Journal.
It describes a shadowy effort underway to erase Nevada’s term limits, amended into the state Constitution by two successive (and overwhelming) votes by citizens back in the 1990s.
The article says no politician will talk about the effort, fearing voters would not react well to seeing […]

The Danger Of Typecasting

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

When you categorize large groups of people into simple groups, misunderstandings often result.
Lining up folks by party affiliation is no different.
So when the Review Journal quoted me as saying “Democrats tend to run a little bit more on emotion than on intellect” at yesterday’s Clark County Republican Convention, I wondered what I would find in […]

Remarkable Nevada photos

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

UNR J-grad Ryan Jerz has his own blog, but what I found most intriguing were his photographs of Nevada.
Here are his favorites, posted on Flickr.

What Would Kurt Think?

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

The Las Vegas Review Journal has Geoff Shumacher write a once-a-week column in order to reassure the world that Erin Neff is a centrist. In his column today, he picks on three Republicans, suggesting the recently deceased novelist Kurt Vonnegut would likely have thought all three nuts, or at least wrong.
As Shumacher’s Republican number two, […]

Please Don’t Tell Our Families

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Congressman Jon Porter’s Aunt Charlotte, I think, is still one of my Sun City constituents. And my parents still live in Sun City. So, please, don’t tell anyone Jon and I made music in a Carson City nightclub. Jon’s family thinks he’s a Congressman, and mine think I am a state Senator.
Here’s the very high […]

Porter Supporters Reunion Tour ‘07

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Late today, I got a call from Congressman Jon Porter’s LV Office chief, former Metro Lt. Stan Olsen, with word that Cong. Porter will be giving a speech to the Legislature the first week of April. And he wants to put together a Porter Supporter reunion for after his speech.
Jon Porter was a rocker in […]


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