Reduce the Debt or ELSE!
From CNN: Stocks on key Asian exchanges dropped modestly early Monday on what is likely to be an eventful day in world markets, following Standard and Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. In early Tokyo trading, the Nikkei index fell 124 points, or 1.3%. South Korea’s KOSPI index slipped 1.6%. In Australia, the All [...]
Nevada Race is a MESS!
What a ridiculous mess! Fifteen months before Election Day 2012, that pretty much sums up how voters in Nevada and nationwide say they feel about political leaders who always seem to be fighting about something. That’s what the polls show anyway. The approval rating for Congress: 14 percent, the lowest ever measured by a CNN [...]
Supreme Court Stays Strong
Nevada Supreme Court says state Republican and Democratic party leaders can choose their candidate to run for the state’s open U.S. House seat. In a decision issued late Tuesday, justices upheld a lower court ruling and sided with the state Republican Party over Democrats and Secretary of State Ross Miller, who said the Sept. 13 [...]
Kate Marshall Wants to Spend!
Kate Marshall the Nevada State Treasurer is going all out to slander her opponent Mark Amodei by calling him “reckless” among other things in her recent television interview. “The kind of irresponsible, reckless advertising that he is doing is playing chicken with this economy,” Marshall said of the “Red Scare” ad. “It is very, very [...]
Amodei Ad Showdown!
Less than a week ago Mark Amodei released an ad warning about the dangers of raising the national debt limit. The ad has created a national stir for a multitude of reasons. The ad has folks from California to New York more aware of the debt limit issue than ever. There have been many wild [...]
Democrats Pulling Away
Berkley (D) ……42% Heller (R) ……..37% Looks like Berkley is edging forward in recent polling. Now we have to keep Democratic Congresswoman Shelley Berkley hitting hard on the fact Republicans want to end Medicare and Medicaid , drastically reduce Food Stamps and bust all the unions. Nevada is a poor state and and people can’t [...]
Post Amodei Win Interview Videos
The power of instant digital media catches all three GOP options for the Nevada special election right after Amodei’s sweep. Three strong candidates, guess one is just stronger.
Amodei Sweeps GOP Nomination
Courtesy of The Daily Caller. The Republican Party of Nevada on Saturday picked Mark Amodei to be their nominee in the special election in Congressional District 2. In a vote by the Nevada GOP Central Committee, Amodei won on the first ballot with 221 votes. The other two candidates nominated by the Central Committee, Commander [...]
Weiner is DONE!
His mother was a public school teacher. His father was a “neighborhood lawyer” — which is what you call a small-town lawyer whose “town” happens to be Brooklyn, N.Y. He often said that his story was the story of middle-class New York, and he said it loudly and passionately, often in front of cameras. He [...]
Nevada News
- Nevada Jobless Rate Drops Below 12 Percent In April For First Time In Nearly Three YearsCARSON CITY – Nevada’s jobless rate dropped below 12 percent for the first time in nearly three years in April, a state agency reported today. The statewide seasonally adjusted rate fell three-tenths of a percentage point to 11.7 percent. It was the eight consecutive month of declines, and brings the state jobless rate down from a peak of 14 percent reached […]
- GOP Candidates For Senate 18 Face Off In Televised Debate Ahead Of June 12 PrimaryCARSON CITY – Two Republican members of the Assembly who both want to move into the Senate in District 18 faced off today in a televised debate that focused primarily on a controversial 2011 tax vote. Two-term lawmaker Richard McArthur and freshman Scott Hammond emphasized their divergent positions on the tax vote during the match-up on the Face To Face tele […]
The Nevada View (of sorts)
- Families for Healthy Communities Send Mom’s Day Message to Congressional Reps(Las Vegas, Nev.) – Mothers and their children made Mother’s Day about clean air and healthy communities May 12 by creating messages to go to Nevada’s federal congressional representatives. Moms worked with the Nevada Conservation League to create the event at the Roots Community Garden in Las Vegasin support of legislation to control dangerous chemicals [. […]
- Time to Hold Station Casinos AccountableWe live in a democracy with the rule of law. No one is above the law, right? Station Casinos has been found guilty of breaking federal law 88 times by two federal administrative law judges, which would make it the worst violator of labor law in Nevada gaming history. Who wants to do business with […]
- New Video on Colorado River Aimed at LatinosHispanic leaders in the Western United States have formed a group called Nuestro Rio which focuses on raising awareness in the Latino community about the health of the Colorado River. They have released a new Corrido video (shown below) that helps build the connection between the river and the cultural heritage of Latinos. http://corrido.nuestrorio.com The […]
US News Desk
- SpaceX to Try a Trip to International Space StationSuccessful mission to the space station would be a first for commercial spaceflight. […]
- Obama Needs Strong Commitments to Afghanistan For Success at NATO SummitGlobal powwows are often highly orchestrated, but there's a lot at stake for Obama at NATO summit. […]
- Home Prices Improve (Slightly) in Battleground StatesHome prices are still down, but improving in key states for pols this November. […]