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March 28, 2024

Ralston Reports

  • Jon Ralston moderates during a debate among the Republican  U.S. Senate candidates on "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" at the KVBC studios in Las Vegas Tuesday, May 18, 2010.
    Political columnist Jon Ralston leaves Sun after 12 years
    Columnist Jon Ralston, Nevada's leading political commentator, is leaving the Las Vegas Sun after 12 years to create his own Internet-based commentary platform, Ralston and Sun Publisher Brian Greenspun announced today.
  • A study in contrasts: Obama and Romney at VFW
    You had to be there.
  • When politicians and partisans exploit
    In stark contrast (I hope) to the thumbsucking and fulminating about the horrific events in Aurora, Colo., I prefer to spend today on a much less tragic incident last week, but one that has sparked similarly offensive and embarrassing behavior from politicians and partisans.
  • Dean Heller’s dissociative disorder
    There are plenty of good campaign books out there, but this year’s Senate race in Nevada may provide a new one: “How to take a silver bullet and shoot yourself in the foot with it.”
  • Asian-American vote cannot be ignored
    The last time The Forgotten Minority made any difference in Nevada politics was when the marvelous Sharron Angle told a group of Hispanic students, “Some of you look a little more Asian to me.”
  • When Reidisms are no longer funny
    On Thursday, Harry Reid was mad (or so it seemed). And when Reid gets mad, Reidisms follow.
  • Intensity already at high level in Senate race
    Nary a moment’s letup in the Nevada Senate race this week since the Monday mid-afternoon disclosure that the House Ethics Committee had formed a special panel to look into allegations against Rep. Shelley Berkley.
  • Berkley’s not quite dead yet
    Shelley Berkley is dead, one in an occasional series:
  • In wake of ruling, politicians display The Pivot Reflex
    As unpredictable as many observers found the Supreme Court’s health care reform decision, the reaction from the political class was depressingly predictable.
  • Validating voters plague the system
    I’d like to nip this in the bud.
  • Sandoval meets with Romney to talk about his role
    So Gov. Brian Sandoval has finally agreed to be an enthusiastic, no-hold-barred supporter of Mitt Romney, and the two had a meeting last week in Carson City to discuss his role.
  • Nevada GOP: The ugly, the bad and the good
    Taking the pulse – yes, there is one — of the state’s Republican Party efforts in your Friday Flash.
  • Lawmakers are transparent in their opposition to transparency
    It’s been a month since I suggested it might be a good idea to get state lawmakers on the record supporting Assemblyman Pat Hickey’s long-overdue transparency reforms.
  • Time for the high court to end character assassination
    It sickens me that I am still writing about this.
  • The primary winners and losers
    Emptying the reporter’s notebook (and my mind) at week’s end, here are some primary winners and losers in your Friday Flash.
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