Anjeanette Damon
Story Archive
- Governor, lawmakers to decide Medicaid expansion for low-income Nevadans
- Thursday, June 28, 2012
- The U.S. Supreme Court handed states at least one victory in its landmark ruling on the federal health care law: The ability to reject a significant expansion of Medicaid coverage to low income people. Now, the battle begins over whether Nevada should expand the program.
- Will Adelson's deep pockets influence the push to legalize online gaming?
- Thursday, June 28, 2012
- As lobbyists lay the groundwork for what might be a final end-of-the-year push for federal legislation legalizing online poker, perhaps the biggest wild card is a man who has vowed to spend as much as $100 million influencing this year’s election: casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.
- Stealthy team effort led to $89M in tax breaks, drew Apple to Reno-Sparks
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012
- For months, Apple executives have waged a stealth campaign in Northern Nevada to win an unprecedented package of tax incentives that will allow the company to escape almost entirely a state sales tax bill on $1 billion worth of servers for a data storage center near Reno.
- Line of Attack: Is it fair to label Obama 'out of touch' on jobs recovery?
- Monday, June 25, 2012
- The line of attack: President Barack Obama is so out of touch with Americans suffering in the economic recession that he thinks the “private sector is doing fine.” He said so.
- Caesars arena initiative suffers a setback in court
- Tuesday, June 19, 2012
- The Nevada Supreme Court dealt a setback today to Caesars Entertainment’s ballot initiative to create a special taxing district for its proposed sports arena on the Las Vegas Strip.
- Americans for Prosperity's political influence lacks strength in primary
- Sunday, June 17, 2012
- If the conservative nonprofit group Americans for Prosperity is poised to be a serious player in the turnout game for Republican candidates this November, it didn’t prove itself in the primary election last week.
- Report: Adelson to give pro-Romney super PAC $10 million
- Wednesday, June 13, 2012
- The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Adelson is prepared to write a $10 million check to Restore Our Future, the Super PAC supporting Romney’s presidential bid.
- The left's Harry Reid-defying move pays off with surprise primary win
- GOP establishment takes page from Democrats, backing primary candidates strategically
- Wednesday, June 13, 2012
- For once, it wasn’t the Republican base that roared loudest in Nevada. It was the left, and they scored a major victory in an attempt to “send a message” to Democrats in Carson City.
- Tarkanian edges out Cegavske in CD4 race
- Tuesday, June 12, 2012
- Danny Tarkanian nosed his way to victory in a crowded Republican primary, winning the chance to take on Democrat Steven Horsford in Nevada’s newest congressional district.
- Primary election turnout 'really slow' across the state
- Tuesday, June 12, 2012
- As expected voters are turning out at less than a dribble for today’s primary election, even in districts with high profile contests. As of 10:30, fewer than 10,000 voters had reached the polls in Clark County.
- Berkley, Heller release tax returns, offering window into their finances
- Tuesday, June 12, 2012
- As a politician, Shelley Berkley opposes cutting the capital gains tax rate. As a taxpayer, maybe she should vote for Dean Heller. In an unprecedented move, both candidates agreed to share three years of their personal income tax returns with the Las Vegas Sun.
- Democrats' rally lacking some of its usual pep
- Saturday, June 9, 2012
- Nevada Democrats rallied at their state convention Saturday, girding for what they believe will be a difficult fight for the White House and U.S. Senate.
- In supporting Mitt Romney, Gov. Sandoval may have to tweak message
- Sunday, June 3, 2012
- Gov. Brian Sandoval jumped into his new role this week as campaigner-in-chief for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
- Poll: Obama and Romney neck and neck in Nevada
- Thursday, May 31, 2012
- A new poll shows the Nevada electorate to be almost evenly divided between the two major candidates in both the presidential and U.S. Senate race.
- Danny Tarkanian plans to appeal $17 million judgment
- Though he admits he should have further scrutinized the deal, politician says he was 'bamboozled'
- Thursday, May 31, 2012
- In hindsight, Republican congressional candidate Danny Tarkanian should have “put a microscope” on a 2007 land deal that went bad and has now left him and his family on the hook for a $17 million judgment, his lawyer said Wednesday.
- At rally, Romney slams Obama's Las Vegas comments from 3 years ago
- Tuesday, May 29, 2012
- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stressed his focus on fueling job creation in a hastily planned 15-minute speech at a Las Vegas furniture warehouse Tuesday in the hours before he swept enough delegates to technically be named the party’s nominee.
- Oceguera walks a tightrope on issues in district split between GOP, Dems
- Sunday, May 27, 2012
- The castigation began before he even stepped out of the television studio. After bumbling through an interview on “Face to Face With Jon Ralston” this month, Democratic congressional hopeful John Oceguera, running in Nevada’s 3rd District, immediately began to take heat for his refusal to answer yes or no to some of the most basic questions.
- Romney slated to be in Vegas on Tuesday for Trump fundraiser
- Thursday, May 24, 2012
- The Donald isn’t ready to leave presidential politics behind just yet. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is slated to be in Las Vegas on Tuesday at a fundraiser hosted by Donald Trump at Trump Towers.
- Group skips over Washoe County in buying anti-Obama TV ads
- Wednesday, May 23, 2012
- Crossroads GPS, a conservative group co-founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, has launched an expensive ad campaign in Nevada, targeting President Barack Obama. But there’s a noticeable gap in the ad buy — Washoe County.
- GOP hopefuls in CD4 race clash in their first debate
- Monday, May 21, 2012
- The three leading Republicans vying for Nevada’s newest congressional district squared off in their first lively debate Monday, sparring mostly over just how much the federal government should involve itself in critical problems facing Nevadans.
- For GOP, disarray not the only issue
- Sunday, May 20, 2012
- To hear some Republicans tell it, the disarray of their state party apparatus isn’t much to worry about. After all, they’ve got the cavalry coming in the form of nearly unlimited spending from outside political nonprofit groups, which can blanket the airwaves with ads and even pinch hit in the all-important ground game.
- Annular eclipse will be viewable — and celebrated — in Reno
- Friday, May 18, 2012
- While Las Vegas may get a slight glimpse at a partial solar eclipse on Sunday, Reno will be front and center for what is expected to be a spectacular near-total eclipse of the sun.
- Heller reverses course on Republican budget, breaks with party to lodge 'protest vote'
- Wednesday, May 16, 2012
- In an election year move, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., broke with many in his party Wednesday, voting against a Republican budget proposal that would have dramatically reshaped Medicare and cut trillions from the federal budget.
- Recent rulings in teacher salary disputes put arbitration on Legislature's radar screen
- Sunday, May 13, 2012
- A budget is not just a plan to spend money, it’s a statement of priorities — a paper-and-ink manifesto of what an elected official or board believes is important.
- Does Ron Paul loyalists' revolution have any ammo?
- Wednesday, May 9, 2012
- Confused by this weekend’s Republican convention? No one blames you. Yes, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucuses in February, capturing 50 percent of the vote.
- Ron Paul supporters capture majority of Nevada's national delegates
- Delegates to national GOP convention must vote in first round according to caucus results but are free to vote for others if there is a second round
- Sunday, May 6, 2012
- Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul succeeded in capturing the majority of Nevada's national delegates early Sunday, overwhelming likely nominee Mitt Romney with an organized contingent who easily took control of the state convention.
- Ron Paul supporters: 'It's not over yet'
- Nevada Republican Convention stretches into Sunday morning, but passionate followers on both sides keep up the fight
- Saturday, May 5, 2012
- The divided Nevada Republican Convention descended into a sheer battle of wills late Saturday as those fighting to keep Ron Paul’s long-shot candidacy alive faced off against those intent on ensuring the apparent presidential nominee Mitt Romney wasn’t embarrassed by a lack of support.
- Republican delegation divided at state convention in Sparks
- Saturday, May 5, 2012
- A deeply divided contingent of more than 1,200 Republicans has gathered at a Sparks casino to elect delegates to the national convention in Tampa, Fla.
- The Nevada Republican convention: a train wreck waiting to happen?
- The state's leading Republican office holders plan to stay clear as supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul work to keep his candidacy alive
- Saturday, May 5, 2012
- The Nevada Republican convention that kicks into full swing today in Sparks is a key step for the Republican hoping to win the White House in November. It also has the potential to be a toxic display of the party’s divided factions and lack of organization.
- As he rises to the top, many wonder what kind of leader Michael Roberson will be
- Thursday, May 3, 2012
- Michael Roberson, the Henderson-based Republican state senator, is poised to do what no other Nevada lawmaker has done in recent memory: jump from freshman legislator to leader of his party in a single session. Some ascribe the brash conservative’s sudden ascent to the new political landscape wrought by the advent of term limits — a landscape ripe with opportunities for young and ambitious lawmakers.
- Once a taboo topic in state GOP, drug decriminalization has some talking
- Sunday, April 29, 2012
- Voters might be wondering if Republicans are smoking something these days after two ranking Republicans recently supported exploring whether marijuana and other drugs should be decriminalized, if not legalized.
- Political rivals agree: Cities shouldn’t be blacklisted from hosting federal conferences
- Wednesday, April 25, 2012
- Is it possible that two foes locked in what promises to be one of this year’s most bitter campaign battles agree on something?
- Democrats scoff at Heller's remarks about oil speculators
- Tuesday, April 24, 2012
- Nevada Democrats are labeling U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., a hypocrite for blaming oil speculators for fueling gas price spikes after he voted against Democratic-sponsored legislation to curb such speculation.
- Berkley-Adelson feud has potential to alter politics on a national level
- Tuesday, April 24, 2012
- In the years since he had employee Shelley Berkley escorted from the building after a high-profile falling out, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has spent a fair amount of his billions meddling in her political races.
- Mining, gaming tax initiatives might have some life left in them
- Sunday, April 22, 2012
- Miners and gamers across the state breathed a sigh of relief last week when Las Vegas businessman Monte Miller announced he was dropping initiative petitions to raise their taxes. But the mining industry might have reason to hold its collective breath a bit longer. Even though Miller has said he will abandon both petitions, the mining tax petition has already cleared a judge. That means any other mining foe — and mining has plenty of foes in the state, some of them well-funded — could potentially pick it up and run with it.
- Candidates' financials: What Nevada politicians are worth
- Wednesday, April 18, 2012
- Some of Nevada's congressional candidates have deep pockets, but others in the field appear to be suffering from some of the same economic hardship that has beset the rest of the state.
- Steven Horsford tries to convince mining that he's not their enemy
- Monday, April 9, 2012
- Steven Horsford quickly put the mining industry in his sights last legislative session. As a Democratic state senator from Las Vegas adamant about finding more money for education and realistic about the chances a tax increase would make it through the Legislature, the state’s prosperous mines provided a way to pay for it. So for four months, he worked to close tax loopholes exploited by the mining industry, argued for regulators to change the way they allow tax deductions for the industry, eliminated some deductions from state law and started the ball rolling on an initiative to eliminate the industry’s tax protections enshrined in the state constitution.
- Sen. Dean Heller says he's undecided on Ryan budget
- Tuesday, April 3, 2012
- After becoming the poster child Republican for a GOP budget that would shrink federal spending and dramatically reshape Medicare by voting for it twice, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller said Tuesday he doesn’t know whether he’ll support the latest version that passed the House last week.
- How a loss on health care might affect President Obama's reelection chances
- Sunday, April 1, 2012
- One of the problems for President Barack Obama’s re-election effort is his presidency has so far resulted in few accomplishments that really excite his base.
- NV Energy windmill program generates rebates, little electricity
- Friday, March 30, 2012
- A year ago, a Reno clean energy businessman warned the Public Utilities Commission that if it didn’t set a few standards for NV Energy’s wind rebate program, its customers could end up footing the bill for turbines that rarely produce electricity.
- Lawmakers fined for keeping campaign-fund expenditures secret
- Thursday, March 29, 2012
Seven Assembly Democrats who did not report all of their campaign expenses have been fined $150 for violating state campaign finance laws, Secretary of State Ross Miller said Wednesday.
- Sheldon Adelson on Rick Santorum: 'I don’t want him to run my country'
- Wednesday, March 28, 2012
- In some of his first public comments on the presidential race, Las Vegas Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson candidly described GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s dwindling chances for the nomination and said he doesn’t want Rick Santorum “running my country.”
- Harry Reid: Mitt Romney's position on health care 'absurd'
- Thursday, March 22, 2012
- On the even of the Affordable Care Act’s two-year anniversary, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., took Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to task for opposing the landmark health care law.
- Key races this fall could change political landscape at State Capitol
- Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- The field is finally set. After months of speculation, and perhaps some wishful thinking, the slate of legislative candidates is set.
- Study: Nevada 9th most corruptible state
- Monday, March 19, 2012
- Evil doers looking for public officials to corrupt should put Nevada on their list of hunting grounds.
- Can Gov. Sandoval take a punch? Some Democrats would like to find out
- Sunday, March 18, 2012
- As Nevada Republicans struggle to rebuild the party they’ve often looked to Gov. Brian Sandoval as their potential white knight, hoping his popularity could pull the state GOP out of its morass. But consider the possibility that Sandoval might be more valuable to Nevada Republicans if he left the state.
- Berkley calls on Heller to join her in banning outside attack ads
- Wednesday, March 14, 2012
- Seeking to both wrest control of her own campaign message and eliminate caustic attack ads backed by often anonymous third party groups, Rep. Shelley Berkley called on her GOP opponent Sen. Dean Heller to sign a pact banning outside spending on TV ads in the U.S. Senate race.
- Gov. Sandoval's shift on taxes signals GOP centrist-strategy to take state Senate
- Wednesday, March 14, 2012
- Gov. Brian Sandoval’s announcement Tuesday that he would propose another extension of temporary tax increases to fund education put him on a trajectory toward the political center.
- Gov. Sandoval supports extending 2009 tax hike to avoid budget cuts
- Tuesday, March 13, 2012
- Gov. Brian Sandoval said today he will propose continuing the 2009 tax increase to avoid further cutting education and other services when he builds his budget for the next biennium.
- Obama campaign hopes popular pieces of health care law will win Nevada votes
- Tuesday, March 13, 2012
- To Republicans, the federal health care law passed two years ago by Democratic majorities in Congress and signed by President Barack Obama is a favorite example of government overreach and excessive spending. Calls for its repeal have become easy applause lines in GOP stump speeches, and part of the party’s case to independent voters.