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The roll call vote on casinos and predatory gambling expansion

August 1, 2010 By AmberPaw 10 Comments

Remember, Atlantic City's casino culture is failed and it looks like the State of New Jersey may have to take them over Nevada has unemployment of 14% and a foreclosure rate 5 times higher than out state. Michigan let in one casino - now it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: addiction, atlantic-city, bankruptcy, casino, child-welfare, michigan, nevada, predatory-gambling, racino

Casinos are going BANKRUPT all across the USA!!!

April 15, 2009 By AmberPaw 5 Comments

More about good old Greektown Casino: it pulls in a million a day, and it is sinking like a derelict row boat. See:  http://www.freep.com/article/2... Casinos are not only no answer, but if there was a right time, it is past and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bankruptcy, casino, greed, greektown, kaching, nevada, trump-casino

Stopping Voter Suppression: The Press Gets It Right in Virginia

August 8, 2008 By project-vote Leave a Comment

What is striking about how the process of disenfranchisement and voter suppression works is how much it relies upon the media to repeat and amplify the breathless and hyperbolic accusations of so-called voter fraud against voter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: alabama, arizona, election-integrity, felon-voting-rights, media, missouri, nevada, new-mexico, project-vote, proof-of-citizenship, virginia, voter-fraud, voter-id, voter-registration-drives, voter-suppression, voting-rights, voting-rights-act

Anti-Equality States Jonesin’ for Marriage Tourism Cash

July 31, 2008 By Laurel 1 Comment

According to his U.S. Census data, there are about 6,300 gay couples in Nevada. Based on what's happened in Massachusetts since it legalized gay marriage, he estimated about half of those couples would get married here if they could. If … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: california, marriage, massachusetts, nevada, wedding-tourism

Michigan, Florida… now Nevada?

February 24, 2008 By Jasiu 12 Comments

Part one of Nevada's convoluted process of selecting its 25 delegates to the national convention had its problems, if you remember. Part two was even worse yesterday. An estimated 10,000 people showed up at Bally's Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008, caucus, clinton, nevada, obama

NV, SC Predictions

January 18, 2008 By matt-in-boston 4 Comments

Tomorrow is the Nevada caucus and South Carolina GOP primary. My predictions: NV: Hillary eeks out a victory over Obama, despite Barack's support from the influential Culinary workers union. Edwards finishes a respectable third. On the GOP … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: elections, hrc, mitten, nevada, omalley, south-carolina

How caucuses will work in Nevada (as far as anyone can tell)

January 9, 2008 By sabutai 2 Comments

A quick read of the Official Rules (source: PDF) tells us much information.  Differences with Iowa are underlined: As in Iowa, caucusgoers must be physically present at a given time and place, though in this case the caucuses are held … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008, caucuses, nevada

This Week With Barack Obama, December 16-22, 2007

December 24, 2007 By icebergslim 1 Comment

                                                     obama at storm lake, ia, december 17th Obama … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008-election, barack-obama, iowa, massachusetts, nevada, new-hampshire, primaries, south-carolina

This Week With Barack Obama, December 9-15, 2007

December 18, 2007 By icebergslim 1 Comment

                                    Obama embraces U.S. soldier Brian Jesness during a campaign rally stop in Mason City, Iowa Obama and Oprah's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008-election, barack-obama, iowa, massachusetts, nevada, new-hampshire, primaries, south-carolina

Primary and Caucus rearrangement – Yea!

July 22, 2006 By smart-mass 14 Comments

The fighting words from the NH crowd are simply short sighted. It's almost as if they are taking it personally. They shouldn't.After all, NH is mostly white and conservative (even the democrats) so why should they get first shot at picking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: caucus, first, iowa, nevada, new-hampshire, primary, south-carolina

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Look, people confused Charlie Baker "not being Donald Trump" with "trustworthy verging on infallible."

Well gosh that was never true, to say the least. #StockholmSyndrome

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Sydney Rachael Levin-Epstein@SYDNEYRACHAEL_

is #mapoli pronounced

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β€œUtter breakdown ... *it’s just not okay*” [emphasis original]

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Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

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In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
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What conditions accounts for this?

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