This much can be said right now about the early 2008 primary and caucus schedule for Senator Hillary Clinton: It looks, as Damon Runyon might have put it, more harrowing than somewhat.
When the Democratic National Committee met in Chicago over the weekend, they approved a calendar that figures to empower four states—voting over a Read More
One small detail on Carl Andrews’ fundraising: among his donors is Winston & Strawn PAC, the fundraising arm of a lobbying firm that earned millions from the Bush Administration Department of Energy pushing for a nuclear waste repository in Nevada.
This is not to say that Andrews has done anything wrong. Winston & Strawn Read More
In other news ….
If hard times and trying circumstances reveal character, then there is much to recommend Mayor Bloomberg in these days of fiscal peril. Faced with budget deficits and fiscal projections that have inspired memories of the city’s brush with bankruptcy in the 1970′s, the Mayor is resisting an easy, politically painless Read More
Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men , by Andrew Hacker. Scribner, 199 pages, $25.
Into a culture jammed with strenuously creative strategies for marrying off its unwed citizens-from Married By America to the Defense of Marriage Act-comes the political scientist Andrew Hacker to shut down the party with Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Read More
On a recent Sunday afternoon, a 35-year-old university professor in New York closed the door of his office and sat down to talk about how he’d discovered he could have multiple orgasms, or at least something that sure felt like them. Tall with straight dirty-blond hair and blue eyes, he was wearing Gap jeans and Read More
In the final days before Election Day 2000, Dick Cheney flew into Nevada to assure worried citizens that, contrary to Democratic campaign propaganda, he and his running mate George W. Bush would take no precipitous action on locating a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain.
“Let them know it’s not true,” said Mr. Cheney after Read More
Las Vegas is not a town I ever expected would become famous for its restaurants. Last time I was there, years ago, I went into a drugstore to buy some postcards to send home. They included pictures of mushroom clouds with a greeting underneath that read: “Welcome to Nevada, the Atomic State!” I haven’t been Read More
24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas , by Andrés Martinez. Villard Books, 352 pages, $25.
The Real Las Vegas: Life Beyond the Strip , edited by David Littlejohn. Oxford University Press, 306 pages, $30.
In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance , by David Thomson. Alfred Read More
Calling himself the single highest payer of art sales taxes in Nevada, casino magnate Steve Wynn explained how easy it was to negotiate Nevada’s sales tax on art lower than other place in the country. A change that, so far, has been applicable exclusively to Mr. Wynn.
“All I did was suggest to the Nevada Read More
Calling himself the single highest payer of art sales taxes in Nevada, casino magnate Steve Wynn explained how easy it was to negotiate Nevada’s sales tax on art lower than other place in the country. A change that, so far, has been applicable exclusively to Mr. Wynn.
“All I did was suggest to the Nevada Read More
