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On a party-line vote, the Nevada Senate Tuesday passed legislation creating a presidential preference primary and moving the state’s primary date from June to the last Tuesday in February.SB421 was opposed by Democrat...

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson rejects charges that he went easy on a fellow Democrat who was indicted after Republican attorney general took up the case....

Meghan Anne Smith, a Democrat who was disqualified in her bid for the Nevada Assembly District 34 seat in 2014, was indicted on a perjury charge, prosecutors said Wednesday....

Former Assemblywoman Lucy Flores will run for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District, setting the stage for a Democratic primary that could split the Hispanic vote....

Can Republicans go left? Can Democrats go right to the hoop? Those are two questions to be answered when Nevada elected officials of both parties meet for the Biennial Donkey and Elephant Basketball Classic benefiting the Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion Programs of Seniors in Service.

The game pits elected Republican officeholders against their Democrat counterparts. Tip-off is Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Carson City High School, 1111 S. Saliman Road.

Sen. Harry Reid makes no bones about his backing of the Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto, daughter of his longtime friend, the late Democrat and County Commissioner Manny Cortez. If Masto had a fan club, Reid would be chairman....

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Thursday announced a new chief of staff as the Nevada Democrat seeks to complete his final term in Congress....

Democrat Hillary Clinton has slipped against leading 2016 Republican candidates in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, according to a poll released on Thursday that cited damage from the furor over the former secretary of state’s emails....

A Nevada Democrat is proposing legislation that would raise taxes on alcohol and tobacco to help fund substance abuse programs ......

Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Wednesday that he will do everything in his power to keep nuclear waste out of Yucca Mountain after Nevada Democrat Sen. Harry Reid retires in two years....

Potential GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he was pleased with the announcement from U.S. Sen. Harry Reid that the Nevada Democrat will not run for another term....

Nevada Senator Harry Reid announced today he will retire from the Senate and will not seek re-election in 2016. The five-term Democrat from Searchlight, Nev., had brushed off questions that he would be leaving the Senate but an exercise-related accident in January appears to have contributed to the decision.
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Nevada Democratic Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange was re-elected Saturday. She vowed to lead a drive to return U.S. Sen. Harry Reid to Washington, put another Democrat in the White House and regain control of the Nevada Legislature....

After losing his congressional seat in a Republican wave in November, Nevada Democrat Steven Horsford was considered a shoo-in to run for his old seat in 2016 — and win. That won’t be happening.
Horsford ......

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid thanked likely Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky for dispensing "expert advice" on Reid's injured right eye. "I really appreciate it very, very much," the Nevada Democrat said to Paul, a Republican senator and ......

As a New Jersey Democratic senator comes under fire in a corruption investigation, Republicans are taking aim at another Democrat: Sen. Harry Reid. The Senate minority leader has not ......

A growing controversy over Democrat Hillary Clinton’s use of personal email for work while she was secretary of state could drag on for months, threatening to cloud the expected launch of her 2016 presidential campaign....

After two months of wearing an eye patch over his right eye, an on-the-mend Sen. Harry Reid showed up to work today sporting a new look: sunglasses. “We’re working on my beauty here,” he said jokingly. Reid, the Nevada Democrat and ......

Nevada state Sen. Debbie Smith was scheduled to undergo a four- to five-hour surgery at a Texas hospital on Friday to remove a brain tumor and determine whether it's cancerous. The Sparks Democrat, 59, was diagnosed with a tumor last Thursday and is ......

The trouncing Democrats took in November’s elections has opened fissures between their liberal wing, represented by New York Senator Charles Schumer, and their progressive wing, led by President Barack Obama.

Standing uneasily with a foot in each camp is Hillary Clinton. The tiff concerns Obamacare, and 20 years ago, she authored its forerunner, Hillarycare. Having lost both houses of Congress, the party of government (and Hillary) in 2016 may also lose the Presidency if it lacks a compelling message.

The delightfully great and fresh gossip from a New York Fundraiser that Mitt Romney may yet try again to be our lected president delights every Democrat with their thinking cap on. Mr. Romney ran a weak kneed campaign a couple years ago-but at least he picked a better running mate than Senator McCain-(remember Sarah Palin-the glib attractive charmer who could not answer that very tough question: "what do you like to read?"

There really is nothing more to be said. The only argument a "Democrat" can offer in the name of "being open to new ideas" is either pure marxism or just the same plain old politics of personal destruction.

Here is an idea that that I am sure is "new" to guys like this:
The US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8.
Amendments 1-10.
The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers.

I can't help but agree with Peter Hennessey when he says he sees a "deep, irreconcilable mental and psychological divide between the two Parties (sic)." That is manifestly the case.

In 2010 I volunteered for Rory Reid's campaign and made the mistake of mentioning that I had been a registered Republican for 34 years. Predictably I was given a list of supposedly "persuadable" Republicans to canvas, which I dutifully did.

Rich Dunn's reply, with a title addressed personally to me, illustrates the deep, irreconcilable mental and psychological divide between the two Parties, and the pavlovian response so typical of Democrats -- attack the messenger, not the message. What makes it especially funny is that the best argument for the Democrats to vote for their candidate in AD40 was that he had been a good... Republican...? It's a free country and you can call yourself whatever you want, just as the people are free to see you for who you are.

And so the people have spoken yesterday.

Peter Hennessey seems to have trouble with the word Democratic. Sadly he's not alone in that. It's an affliction that's been going around on the extreme right since the days of Joseph McCarthy. Please note that I'm talking about the extreme right, not the Republican party of the past, which once had a perfectly sane and civic-minded mainstream. I was a registered Republican myself for 34 years, but never had any trouble understanding that Democrat is a noun and Democratic is an adjective. I only have a bachelor's degree, but have no trouble distinguishing between nouns and adjectives.

This is in reference to
1. http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/11/01/2014/amodei-and-minimum-wage
2. http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/10/28/2014/dave-cook-demonstrates-ex...
3. http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/10/25/2014/letter-one-year-obamacare...

These recent articles are a faithful representations of the Party Line. Of course that party line is dead wrong, but at least the writer does a good job presenting it.

Hi…I’m Dave Cook….
Candidate for Nevada Assembly, district 40 (Carson
City, and south Washoe County), democrat, age 64.

I am a fourth generation Nevadan. I have lived in Carson City for thirty-five years, where I raised my two daughters. Both are now college graduates.

I'm a retired emeritus awarded college professor of business and
economics from Western Nevada College, where I taught for almost
thirty years here in Carson City.

I graduated from UNLV with bachelor degrees in Accounting and Political Science, and an MBA in Business and Economics.

With Congress all tied up and failing to agree on almost anything, I wonder when we can expect Congress to reform our tax laws. Recently a tax writer (staff) for the U.S. Senate vowed to work on overhauling the federal tax code by August 2015.

It is long past time to reduce the corporation income tax rates. Senator Ron Wyden said rate reduction to 24 percent (from 35 percent) is possible by “eliminating loopholes.”

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This in reply to Mr. James O. Hartman’s letter to the editor in the May 21st issue of the RC. Mr. Hartman, I will address you in the first person in this reply. Facts are stubborn things.

Let me be clear that I draw a parallel to your reporting in the RC opinion page with what in the 30’s was called yellow journalism. Use of the journalism in the same sentence with your name does a disservice to journalists everywhere even those in the mainstream.

In your article:

Ron Knecht filed Thursday to run for Nevada State Controller as “one plain-speaking nerd” who will bring to the job new energy and wide experience in public service to voters and taxpayers.