All attention is on Iowa and New Hampshire right now, so there has been a lull in presidential campaigning in Nevada. But Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced a new TV spot http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/93.aspx this morning, and when it airs on Monday, it will be the first Democratic campaign ad to mention a Nevada issue.
Sen. Barack Obama […]

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State budget cuts are coming to previously exempted departments, including K-12 and corrections, Gov. Jim Gibbons is announcing today. In exchange, other departments that had braced for 8 percent budget cuts will now “only” be shaved 4.5 percent. (See Gibbons’ budget proposal.)
There were problems with cutting budgets by 8 percent, Gibbons discovered — especially for […]

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Sen. Hillary Clinton’s first TV commercials for Nevada will start running Tuesday. They’re called “New Beginning ” and can be viewed here.
The 60-second spot shows Clinton in a broad brush stroke, with the former first lady talking about “new beginnings” needed in health care, education and foreign policy. Most of it is Clinton giving speeches.
Sen. […]

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The embattled Joe Enge resigned this morning as deputy director of the state Office of Energy, after a flurry of criticisms that he was not qualified for the job.
“My understanding is that it was his decision,” said Mellisa Subbotin, press secretary for Gov. Jim Gibbons. The governor did not seek Enge’s resignation, she added.
News that […]

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The new second-in-command of state’s energy office admits he has no experience in energy policy.
Joe Enge, a Carson City School board trustee and conservative writer on education issues, was hired Nov. 12 to be the department’s deputy director.
Enge is a former high school history teacher and was an analyst and researcher on education issues for […]

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The apocalypse is not as nigh as it seems, if media interest in the sensational as opposed to the politically profound is any indication.
At a downtown courthouse, O.J. Simpson was bound over for trial on kidnapping and other charges in connection with his efforts to reclaim memorabalia. At UNLV, Democratic presidential candidates debated.
Which attracted […]

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No more lighting rounds. No more asking for a show of hands.
Thursday’s first hour of debate among the Democratic presidential candidates will be broken into eight-minute chunks on specific questions. (For more about the second hour’s format, which will feature questions from Nevadans in the audience, see my story in today’s Sun.)
Moderator Wolf Blitzer […]

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The producer of Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate, CNN’s D.C. Bureau Chief David Brohmer, says he hopes to strip (sorry) Las Vegas cliches from the debate, even if they’re being liberally used in promoting the event.
But Brohmer also offered a bold prediction: Some candidate will try to work Las Vegas cliche into the debate.
“They’re all getting […]

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