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		<title>Out with the old, in with the new</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/11/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks a big change in the blog world, readers: We are closing down Various Things &#38; Stuff and starting up an all-new blog, called SlashPolitics.com.
Don&#8217;t fret: You&#8217;ll still get all the blogging you&#8217;ve come to expect from us at Various Things &#38; Stuff, although we will be losing the royal &#8220;we,&#8221; along with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Response&#8217; gets nod for Oscar vote</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/10/the-response-gets-nod-for-oscar-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Response, a short film about a panel of military judges weighing the guilt or innocence of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, has been selected as one of 10 short films to advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. We featured this riveting movie in CityLife back in October, shortly after it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas monorail: &#8216;A mess&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/10/las-vegas-monorail-a-mess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
	
	The Las Vegas monorail has consistently disappointed when it comes to meeting its revenue and ridership projections.
The Las Vegas monorail is &#8220;a mess&#8221; in terms of its flagging ability to repay its debts. It seems overly optimistic ridership and revenue projections are the culprit, but there&#8217;s a lot more detail in this story by Dan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP chief calls for Reid&#8217;s resignation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/10/gop-chief-calls-for-reids-resignation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele today called for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid to step over his references to then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama as &#8220;light-skinned&#8221; without a &#8220;Negro dialect.&#8221; The comments came on Fox News Sunday.
&#8220;I think he should,&#8221; said Steele. &#8220;There is a standard where Democrats think they can say these things and apologize when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practice how you play?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/09/practice-how-you-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to criticizing U.S. Sen. Harry Reid for what it called &#8220;racially insensitive&#8221; comments about President Barack Obama, the National Republican Senatorial Committee dug up Reid&#8217;s remarks from 2002, after former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was forced to step down, after it was revealed that Lott said the country would have avoided &#8220;all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad news for Harry</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/09/bad-news-for-harry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that when your enemies are gunning for you, don&#8217;t hand them a loaded gun. Yet that&#8217;s precisely what U.S. Sen. Harry Reid may have inadvertently done, if the revelation in a new book is accurate. According to a story posted on The Atlantic website, Reid had this to say about then-fellow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There IS SO an &#8216;I&#8217; in &#8216;team&#8217;!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/08/there-is-so-an-i-in-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers, your humble correspondent is heading back to broadcast television!
We&#8217;ve been hired to join the highly respected I-Team at KLAS Channel 8, to cover &#8212; what else?! &#8212; Nevada politics. We&#8217;ll be appearing on Channel 8&#8217;s 6 p.m. newscast twice each week to discuss political news, as well as covering Nevada&#8217;s sure-to-be-riveting 2010 elections in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reid says bye-bye to Dorgan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/05/reid-says-bye-bye-to-dorgan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those lucky few readers who follow us on Twitter learned earlier today that U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., has announced he&#8217;ll retire instead of seeking re-election in November, further imperiling U.S. Sen. Harry Reid&#8217;s slippery grasp on the 60-vote majority. But Reid was gracious in his response.
â€œByron Dorgan is a friend and has been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The thing about the F-word</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/05/the-thing-about-the-f-word/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/05/the-thing-about-the-f-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the thing about the F-word. When you use it, you have to think ahead. You have to be sure that it&#8217;s the thing to say, because once you deploy it, you&#8217;re committed. There&#8217;s no going back. If you later are forced to eat your words, the F-word goes down hardest of all.
For example, say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rory Reid: Reformer, maverick?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/04/rory-reid-reformer-maverick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toward the end of Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid&#8217;s news conference today &#8212; the one where he announced several government reforms &#8212; he allowed that the political fallout could cut either way. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s impossible to measure the political impact [of the reforms],&#8221; he said. &#8220;It might help me, it might hurt me.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reid &#8230; and the Kennedys?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/03/reid-and-the-kennedys/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/03/reid-and-the-kennedys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/?p=12348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid &#8212; son of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid &#8212; is running for governor got a little notice in The Hill today. It seems the Reids aren&#8217;t the only potential political dynasty in the making in 2010. Sons of Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s long weekend homework</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/01/new-years-long-weekend-homework/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2010/01/01/new-years-long-weekend-homework/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Las Vegas Sun&#8217;s J. Patrick Coolican has two stories in today&#8217;s newspaper that every Las Vegas resident &#8212; especially those in positions of power in government and business &#8212; ought to read. The first details how this city built on illusion and deception ended up deceiving itself into thinking the good times were going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well, that&#8217;s definitely been a year</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2009/12/31/well-thats-definitely-been-a-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Layoffs. Cutbacks. Bankruptcies. Bailouts (for some). Foreclosures. Never-ending wars. Dick Cheney, still popping off about how we should torture people. Health care, just barely. Jim Gibbons and John Ensign.
What a year, huh?
If you&#8217;re like us, you&#8217;re ready to see it off.
We&#8217;ll be signing off now until Monday, Jan. 4. Lots of new and interesting things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to raise the mining tax</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2009/12/31/how-to-raise-the-mining-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jim Gibbons wrote in a letter to state employees &#8212; and the Review-Journal dutifully reported today &#8212; that it would take two votes of the people to increase the state&#8217;s mining tax.
That&#8217;s not entirely accurate.
Yes, amending the state constitution &#8212; where a 5 percent net tax on mining profits is enshrined &#8212; would take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;d have guessed?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2009/12/30/whod-have-guessed/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2009/12/30/whod-have-guessed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sebelius</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Sandoval]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor Robert Olmer. He does his best to defend Gov. Jim Gibbons, and gets canned after a teeny little flub of calling first ladies &#8220;window dressing.&#8221; Turns out, Gibbons has a lot of respect for the ladies. Well, at least the first ladies. My colleague Anjeanette Damon (she&#8217;s the first lady of Nevada journalism!)Â  obtained [...]]]></description>
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