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Ah, yes, the only readable bit of the Sunday Review Journal--the Reporter's Notebook--had this quote from the ex-mayor of Nor'Town and Gubewannabe Mike Montandon: "Whenever I go to Republican events, people walk up to me and say, 'If you can keep your pants on ...' They want to support somebody that they feel is not going to let them down." ...

But unlike governor of South Carolina, Gibbons and his weaker record, stranger conduct has not received calls for resignation Sun, Jul 5, 2009 As I watch the tragicomic Mark Sanford soon-to-be-a-Lifetime-movie story unfold in South Carolina, complete with brave and opportunistic calls for the governor to resign, I cannot help but think of the ...

Fri, Jul 3, 2009 Under the federal stimulus package signed into law this year, ita s estimated that $1.45 billion will be spent in Nevada.

After 75 regular legislative sessions, the record for governors' vetoes and legislative veto overrides set in Nevada's first legislature was not only broken, it was smashed.

It has been disappointing to listen to the response of some Republicans to the scandals that have enfolded Nevada Sen.

A week after the Nevada Legislature went home last month, Gov. Jim Gibbons held a news conference to predict that he would have to call the lawmakers back into special session before the next regular session in 2011.

A federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit by a former cocktail waitress who accuses Nevada Gov.

The Nevada higher education system has done little if anything to develop additional sources of revenue.

Last Sunday was a very good day for Nevada Democrats. First came the headlines in the Reno Gazette Journal, "GOP is broken; who will fix it?" followed by the storyline about Gov.

Nevada's Americorps program, which produces thousands of hours of volunteer service throughout the state, is threatened because Gov.

One sign Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid is in it to win it: He's had a campaign manager on the payroll since early May, which is pretty early for a gubernatorial election in November 2010.

NATIONAL: The Plusses, and Perils, of Facebook Rachel Kapochunas over at CQ has an interesting piece that will likely impact some campaigns in 2010, and many more in future cycles.

Montandon plans jog on June 30 to campaign headquarters By MOLLY BALL and ALAN CHOATE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Mike Montandon is running for office -- literally.

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons wants a federal judge to shield his phone records from a former cocktail waitress who accuses him of accosting her outside a Las Vegas restaurant in 2006.

The state that pioneered the quickie divorce is witnessing a potentially ugly breakup that has the governor of Nevada fighting to get back into his own mansion.

Authorities in Nevada planned to freeze and seize property and assets of people convicted of trafficking in child prostitutes under a new law that a sponsor called one of the strictest in the nation.

As she eyes a potential run for governor, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, may have to spend some time mitigating the disappointment among some of her liberal constituencies about the outcome of this year's legislative session.

Reno Mayor Bob Cashell says he hasn't yet decided whether he will pursue a bid for the governor's office in the 2010 election.

For the first time in nearly two decades, Democrats controlled both houses of the Legislature and had a powerful supermajority in the Assembly this year.

Archive of Sun politics stories You know you're at a low point when the only person willing to stand beside you in your time of marital and political strife is Jim Gibbons, the beleaguered Nevada governor who was once accused of assaulting a cocktail waitress, is in the middle of an ugly divorce and has approval ratings below the freezing ...