AltWeeklies Wire
Asbestos Afirenew
The big fight on Capitol Hill last week wasn't the war, Iran's nukes or cartoons -- it was asbestos ligitation.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
02-16-2006 |
Politics
Mining the Scandalnew
Nevada’s Harry Reid thinks the GOP scandal is a rich lode for Democrats -- if it is a GOP scandal.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
01-19-2006 |
Politics
Homeland Security Welfare Stories Pile Upnew
Money to protect the homeland is being allocated not on the basis of need but of congressional pull.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
10-07-2005 |
Politics
Tags: Congress, Nevada, Senate, Calif., al-Qaeda, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, gold rush camp in the Sierra foothills, Nevada City, Nevada Sens. Harry Reid and John Ensign, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California amendment
Harry Reid Under Pressurenew
Nevada's senior senator is on the hot spot as a result of George W. Bush's latest Supreme Court pick.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
10-07-2005 |
Politics
Kids Must Learn the Constitution, Dammitnew
Schools around the nation spent an extra day teaching the U.S. Constitution because Congress threatened their funding if they didn’t.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
09-30-2005 |
Politics
Karl Rove: The Early Yearsnew
The Bush aide’'s Nevada years are already starting to develop their own mythology.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
07-26-2005 |
Politics
Bush Administration Revokes Torture Policy Authored by Nevadannew
The Bush administration revoked its permissive torture policy just days before attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales faced Senate questioning about his espousal of the policy, which was written by Nevada lawyer Jay Bybee.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
01-17-2005 |
Politics
Nevada's Harry Reid Took the Long Way to the Topnew
The political highway is littered with the bodies of those who took the new Democratic floor leader of the U.S. Senate too lightly.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
12-08-2004 |
Politics
Packing Money From Nevada to South Dakotanew
The defeat of U.S. Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota has opened the way for Nevada’s Sen. Harry Reid to become the new Democratic floor leader.
Daschle’s defeat was assisted by Reid’s Republican pal John Ensign, whose Battle Born Fund PAC gave $10,000 to Daschle's opponent.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
11-12-2004 |
Politics
