Nevada

A few months after Dean Heller thumped Jill Derby the first time to become Nevada’s representative for the 2nd congressional district, the liberals, the Democrats and their “amen” corner in certain parts of the mainstream media were giggling like little schoolgirls over this quote about the conservative freshman from Carson City…

“In 2007, Congress.org rated Dean [...]

For the most part, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto does a good job.

She’s secured a grand jury indictment against Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki for allegedly misappropriating funds during his stint as state treasurer, she’s filed at least 229 objections to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump and she recently helped secure Nevada’s [...]

The mob museum just can’t seem to get any love in this town. Republican Sen. John Ensign on Wednesday became the latest Nevada lawmaker to say there’s no way Las Vegas’ proposed Mob Museum is going to get a dime from the federal economic stimulus package.

After a fitful start, the new Congress began to move forward Wednesday as Democrats unveiled priority legislation, including bills important to Nevada, and Republicans promised to pursue aggressively their role as the “loyal opposition.”

Last month during the Special Session, the Nevada state Assembly voted on who would serve as Speaker during the upcoming legislative session which begins on February 2nd.
Seven Republicans voted against Democrat Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley by abstaining from the vote. And you’d have thought someone had kicked a puppy. The seven Republicans [...]

The untold story of the firing of Nevada’s former U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden may yet be unraveled.

Dina Titus begins a new political era today, for herself and Nevada, when she stands on the floor of the House of Representatives and is sworn in as a member of the 111th Congress.

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Apparently the New York Observer owned site has ceased creating original content and instead has become an aggregator of local Nevada political blogs.  In fact, our post on Southwest's Vegas airfares was PolitickerNV's most read last week.  The problem?  It was our entire post, not just a sentence or two like most aggregators.  (Warning! For reasons explained below, PolitickerNV readers may need to click "read more" now!) And it's not the only one of ours that has been scraped.

Two weeks ago I contributed a column to the Las Vegas Sun regarding the relative size of Nevada’s state government. Former state Sen. Bob Beers responded in a column that was published last Sunday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. I want to thank Mr. Beers for his response, even if he mistakenly thinks I was wrong or reporting selectively.

Some good stuff over at I am Indisposed and MrJerz.org regarding what is "new media" and, more specifically, a recently-formed Reno organization touting Nevada new media.  Like all good debates, the comments are equally lively. 

If there is a lesson to be learned, it's if you want to create an organization representing "Nevada new media" perhaps you should have those who actually do it be a part of the process.