Archive for June, 2007

Do Candidates Really Need a Theme Song?

June 26, 2007

Originally Published on NevadaNewsmakers.com, 6/26/2007 4:23:02 PM
Apparently they do, and it didn’t start with Bill Clinton, whom the Reasonable Reporter is just beginning to forgive for his appropriation of Fleetwood Mac in 1992. FDR’s theme song was “Happy Days Are Here Again,” according to one pop music expert.
 
Hillary Clinton occupied considerable news consciousness last week with [...]

Evolution Complete

June 18, 2007

Originally Published on NevadaNewsmakers.com, 6/18/2007 11:36:43 AM
Just a dozen or so years ago, before the field was invaded by millions of energetic marketing and political science grads with goatees and a demonstrated preference for unattractive eyewear, the internet was mysterious territory. Those who understood it were largely infantile and anti-social young men, most of whom [...]

Bond. Highway Bond.

June 6, 2007

Originally Published on NevadaNewsmakers.com, 6/11/2007 11:39:24 AM
Many are neither shaken nor stirred by discussions of public finance. The politically dramatic transportation hearings at the end of the 2007 legislative session, for instance, were actually two parts financial math and one part politics. We reported the politics, announced the large figures that sum up [...]

Utterly Transported

June 5, 2007

Originally Published on NevadaNewsmakers.com, Published: 6/5/2007 5:37:52 PM
Better than a movie. An incredibly long, three-part, guy movie with lots of fight scenes and hardly any female stars. The Senate hearing on the Big Transportation Bill was the best of the year in its genre, for conflict, cliff hangers, and a tight wrap-up that allows all the [...]