By Eric Neugeboren The Nevada Independent Nevada’s two largest counties plan to use improved technology in this year’s elections that officials say will help process mail votes faster. In a meeting last week of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections, county and state elections officials provided lawmakers with how their 2024 … [Read more...]
Voters to decide city council seats, mayoral race next week in Sparks
Early voting for the 2022 midterms is underway, and in the next two weeks people will have the opportunity to cast their ballots up until General Election Day on November 8. Quite a few federal and statewide offices are up for renewal, such as choosing a representative for the U.S. Senate and Congress representative for District 2 along with who will be our next Governor, … [Read more...]
Nothing New in Politics
With the acrimonious outbursts by both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump this week, it seems the general election will be a long and ferocious contest between the two. Since both contestants have chosen to go “negative”, it reminds me of the old precept in handling political campaigns that stated, “Negative ads are good – because they work.” Proving that there is nothing new in … [Read more...]
You can fool some of the people some of the time — and that may be enough
I have a sincere and earnest question for a large plurality of Nevada Republicans who say they will participate in the state’s among-the-first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses in February: What the hell are you thinking? According to the most recent CNN/ORC poll, Donald Trump is the presidential choice of 38 percent of those aforementioned Republicans. Trump is not … [Read more...]
Capitalism takes a hit as Democrats debate
Watching last week’s so-called debate among the five Democratic candidates for their party’s presidential nod, the first thing that struck me was the tenor of the questions put forward by the moderator. Since it was on CNN, it was no surprise that most of the interrogation was about social issues. Free college education, stricter gun control laws and further redistribution of … [Read more...]