By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views

TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES

  • Top 10 Stimulus Projects to Remember (Senate Republican Communications Center) – Mapping rabbit feces, studying facebook and building Major League Baseball spring training facilities are all financed by the American taxpayer.
  • Chuck Kozak & the Mystery of the Missing Ballot Box (Chuck Muth) – Some people should just know when to keep their mouths shut.
  • Healthcare Reform Mistakes 102 (Mike Zahara) – From wherever you’re sitting, whatever your point of view is on the issue, the current bills in conference for a final healthcare ‘reform’ measure are a train wreck.
  • First Friday Brewhaha This Week: No Tricks, Just Treats! (Karri Bragg) – All the trick-or-treaters have gone. Sunday football is on. Your belly is either aching from too much spiked punch or too many handfuls from the kids’ candy bucket.

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MUTH’S TRUTHS

Did anyone see either member of the Reid Dynasty at the Nevada Day Parade on Saturday? Me, neither. I wonder where our NEVADA U.S. Senator was on NEVADA Day?

Oh, here he was, courtesy of The Hill:

“Washington’s political, media and defense elites mingled at the opening night of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire.’ . . . Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who was seated in the president’s box, mingled with other members of Washington’s power elite, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, The New York Times’ David Sanger and Maureen Dowd, Brookings’ Thomas Mann and the American Enterprise Institute’s Norm Ornstein.”

Yeah, that beats the heck out of spending NEVADA Day in NEVADA with NEVADANS.

OTHER NEWS

  • RJ: Man shot by police a former Libertarian candidate for Congress
  • Sun: At 145, the Silver State seems to be in even worse shape than last year
  • Frederick: Here’s a scary thought: What if Dina were governor?
  • Sun: A bad week for Lowden, but it’s still really early
  • Morrissey: Sue Lowden: Hot Air exclusive interview
  • Morrison: Political joking, some car bombings are easier to forget than others
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Filibuster, shmilibuster

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TUBE TIPS

Advocate and opponent of legalized prostitution go “Face to Face” with Jon Ralston tonight. The program airs on Las Vegas ONE on Cox Channel 19 at 5:30 pm, 6:30 pm and 8:00 pm.

Sam Shad’s guest on today’s Nevada Newsmakers program will be Gov. Jim Gibbons. The program airs on KRNV-TV Channel 4 at 12:30 pm in Reno and on Cox Cable Channel 123 at 4:30 pm and 11:35 pm in Las Vegas.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

  • “Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she’s prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that’s what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a “critical milestone,” may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.” – Wall Street Journal editorial, 11/2/09
  • “You will remember that Democrats (in, always hungry to spend more of someone else’s money, sought to raise taxes in the worst way, and the only obstacle between them and more misery for the people was Gov. Gibbons and his constitutionally empowered veto pen.” – Las Vegas Review-Journal editor Sherman Frederick
  • “Controller Kim Wallin has hired Mary Keating, who alleges she was forced from her job by the governor because he suspected her of leaking information about his text messages. Wallin has hired Keating as the stimulus reporting and accountability officer. This comes after all the friction between the two constitutional officers over who controls the stimulus money. And now Wallin hires the woman suing Gibbons? Only in Nevada.” – Jon Ralston, Flash, 11/2/09
  • “Sue Lowden is a front-runner, so is Danny Tarkanian. I think you put us up there in that conversation, along with (former Assemblywoman) Sharon Angle and (State Sen.) Mark Amodei. There’s a pathway for five candidates to win that race right now.” – Ryan Erwin, consultant to Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Chachas