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Reid on Clinton: 'She's the best'

DENVER – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Searchlight) has asked U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) to deliver the Democrats’ weekly radio address and she has accepted, Reid told a meeting of the Nevada delegation this morning. (PolitickerNV.com, Alex Isenstadt)

Link:  http://www.politickernv.com/alexisenstadt/2348/reid-clinton-shes-best

Dayton Dems unite for Obama party

The next few days will likely prove if Sen. Barack Obama has united the entire Democratic Party, but he certainly brought unity to Democrats in Dayton with his acceptance speech on Thursday night. (Nevada Appeal, Karen Woodmansee)

Link: http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080829/NEWS/808299997/-1/rss05

Nevadan still sees upside 

DENVER -- Xiomara Rodriguez, the Nevada woman whose scheduled address to the Democratic convention got bumped from the schedule Wednesday night, wasn't too upset about it on Thursday.

Rodriguez figured she was in good company. Also dropped as the program ran long (former President Clinton's speech went 10 minutes over) was New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. (Review Journal, Molly Ball)

Link: http://www.lvrj.com/news/27651104.html

Nevada panel sees merit in workers' conflict claims 

The head of a federal panel on worker health has dismissed a conflict-of-interest complaint against the leader of a Nevada Test Site advisory group, but the Nevada Center for Public Ethics believes there is some merit to the complaint. (Review Journal, Keith Rogers)

Link: http://www.lvrj.com/news/27651064.html

Republican group 'deeply troubled' by Nevada GOP 

A key Republican committee says it is troubled by the "ineptness" of the Nevada GOP and called the state party's attempt to elect delegates to next week's national convention "flawed, inadequate and unacceptable." (Review Journal, AP)

Link: http://www.lvrj.com/news/27651029.html

Nevada delegates say Obama can win

DENVER — On the final night of a convention that opened with a question of whether the party could heal the wounds of a marathon primary, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama won over skeptical Democrats, proved he wouldn’t run from divisive issues and stood up to his Republican critics, Nevada delegation said tonight. (Gazette Journal, Anjeanette Damon)

Link:  http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/NEWS18/80828064

DNC notebook: Nevada delegate to be on ‘The Daily Show’

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid was in the limelight Wednesday. The next morning, the stories in Nevada newspapers focused on his relentless effort to paint U.S. Sen. John McCain as a man who lacks the temperament to be president. Reid was labeled the attack dog.

At the Nevada delegation’s final breakfast Thursday morning, he said he’d be handing off that role.  (Gazette Journal, Anjeanette Damon)

Link:  http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/NEWS19/80828059

Fact or myth: Printing ballots in Spanish costs taxpayers millions of dollars?

Last night, we had a meeting with the public on immigration. One woman said she wished more immigrants would learn English (note: there is an English proficiency requirement on the citizenship test) and one problem she had with this was that, she said, it costs millions of dollars a year to print ballots in Spanish. Another person at the meeting pulled me aside to say he thought Spanish ballots are printed using private dollars, not public, costing taxpayers nothing. So which is it? (Gazette Journal, Mark Robison)

Link: http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/misc?url=/misc/blogs/immigration.pbs&pl...

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