Steve Miller, over at AmeicaMafia.com, has an interesting article about the governor's attempt--or lack thereof--to crack down on that beloved Vegas tradition, the "doorman scam." The "doorman scam" is the practice at local casinos wherein doormen give special favors to taxi drivers who grease their palms when customers request transport to ...

Barbara Vucanovich says she won't support any of her fellow Republicans mounting a primary challenge against Governor Jim Gibbons.

A great deal is said about the low rankings Nevada's K-12 education receives from national groups.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a statement declared the drop in statewide unemployment from 13.3 percent to 13 percent a "positive development and further evidence that Nevada is starting down the economic road to recovery." Rep.

Nevada's unemployment rate declined in October for the first time in four years, but economists Friday cautioned that while the figures are encouraging, they're more a reflection of a shrinking job market than job creation.

Conan Pope had two allies when he went before the state Pardons Board on Wednesday.

First they stick us with the only fellow truly worthy of the title "Republican governor," and then they run away after learning what that really means.

He can. Really, he can. Or so a Sandoval for Governor fundraising invite would have you believe.

As expected, the new week brings a smattering of polling data , as people start finally boxing up all of their 2009 Election decorations and moving onward to the next trip to the ballot box.

We've just added new charts for the 2010 races for senate and governor in Nevada, as well as our usual favorable and approval ratings charts.

Jeff Evans walked into the Department of Motor Vehicles office today carrying the faded papers in which the Army notified his mother that his father had been killed in an airplane crash in Vietnam in 1970.

Your recent guest columnist, Jim Clark, vice chairman of the Washoe County Republican Party, is certainly entitled to his bias for Republicans, but plotting Brian Sandoval as "on the right track" is a stretch - unless of course he means the same old track Gov.

So, is Gov. Jim Gibbons toast? In a general election held today ... yeah. But in the Republican primary next June? Not so fast.

A Yerington teenager was among 31 Nevada residents who participated in a special citizenship ceremony last Friday with Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons.

Cathleen Allison/Nevada Appeal Tom Jacobs, public information officer for the Department of Motor Vehicles, shows a sample of the Gold Star plates that will become available Monday for families of servicemen killed in the line of the duty.

By now, the instant post-mortems on Election 2009 results will have been written, either overstating or understating their significance for Campaign 2010.

So was Harry Reida s car rigged with a bomb during his days as a Nevada gaming commissioner? Read the police reports and decide for yourself.

What if Dina were governor? SHERMAN FREDERICK MORE COLUMNS The widow of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, sits with Sen.

More than 5,600 jobs have been created or saved in Nevada through President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus plan, according to information released today by the federal government.

Metro Police determined in JulyA 1981 that Harry Reid was the victim of an attempted homicide after bomb squad investigators found a wire that ran from the distributor of his Oldsmobile station wagon to its fuel tank.