Topic: Las Vegas

There was this moment during the first forum of the 2010 U.S. Senate race Thursday that encapsulates the Republican Partys problem and could undermine its unprecedented opportunity to excise the Senate majority leader from the D.C. landscape: At a time when the ...
By now, the instant post-mortems on Election 2009 results will have been written, either overstating (most likely) or understating their significance for Campaign 2010.Such is the standard day-after fare. What does all of this mean, if anything, for Nevada, where the states ...

Nothing funny about it

Republican laughter about Reids bomb scare shows despicable lack of judgment Metro Police determined in July1981 that Harry Reid was the victim of an attempted homicide after bomb squad investigators found a wire that ran from the distributor of his Oldsmobile station ...
Just because you announce your candidacy for a serious office doesnt mean you should be taken seriously.But if you are part of a serious (we hope) television program, how do you separate the serious from the unserious?Thats the conundrum confronting the Face ...
Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky senator, could take it no more.Even though the senator embroiled in the scandal was of McConnells own party, his conduct toward a female staffer and his subsequent behavior had become offensive and degrading, and potentially illegal. These jobs ...
After being fired in what was widely regarded as a political move, Daniel Bogden will soon return to Las Vegas as U.S. attorney RenoSoon after the presidential election in November, Daniel Bogden was attending a settlement conference at the U.S. courthouse here ...
US attorney ousted with 8 others in 2006 says he's glad to return to Nevada jobDaniel Bogden never really got a good answer why President George W. Bush fired him from his post as U.S. attorney for Nevada in 2006. President Obama ...

Early endorsement draws grumbles

Senate Democratic Caucus takes a money-saving step to avoid primary spending CARSON CITY In early August, with Election Day still 15 months away, the Nevada Senate Democratic Caucus announced it will back Tammy Peterson in the race for the state Senate seat ...
I had to check my calendar Thursday to make sure I wasnt James Darren in 1966, spinning my way into The Time Tunnel.It certainly felt like it already was October2010 with all the events surrounding the Harry Reid Death Watch occurring within ...

A do-over for Ensign, tourism bill

Nevadan shares in passage of bill that would boost promotion of travel to U.S. WASHINGTON Crisis managers have said the best way Republican Sen. John Ensign could rehabilitate his image after disclosing his affair with a former staff member would be to ...