
Jon Ralston
Founder and Editor at The Nevada Independent
CEO/Editor, The Nevada Independent. Your State. Your News. Your Voice. [email protected] #WeMatter
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2 weeks ago |
thenevadaindependent.com | Jon Ralston
I was chatting via text with a friend Thursday in the wake of the news that Trump loyalist Michele Fiore had been pardoned after being convicted in federal court of pocketing money she had claimed was for a police memorial. I told him that I was not surprised, to which he replied: “But I think when we stop being shocked, it just moves the goalposts a little bit further.”My riposte: “When we stop expressing outrage is the point.
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1 month ago |
thenevadaindependent.com | Jon Ralston
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. —Thomas Paine, Dec. 23, 1776Covering politics for so long, I have learned, not without stumbling a time or two, to keep perspective.
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2 months ago |
linkedin.com | Jon Ralston
Jon Ralston CEO, The Nevada Independent 53m Report this post Big scoop via Tabitha Mueller: Warner Bros. and Sony, which were competing for the rights to form Hollywood East in Vegas, are now teaming up and will lobby lawmakers and the gov for a big film tax credit bill: https://lnkd.in/gj2FcTaA 1 Like Comment
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Jan 17, 2025 |
thenevadaindependent.com | Jon Ralston
Eight years ago today, a small band of journalists gathered around a kitchen table in Carson City and produced the first edition of The Nevada Independent. We had no idea how it would be received as we hit “publish,”but I can still recall the excitement and exhilaration as we saw our work appreciated. We were a small but mighty group of a half-dozen employees, and never did I think we would triple in size and become Nevada’s only statewide news organization. Your State. Your News. Your Voice.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
thenevadaindependent.com | Jon Ralston
I was wrong. I thought that the Democratic performance, validated with four consecutive presidential cycle victories, would be robust enough to overcome a strong Republican push to bank early votes. So I predicted Vice President Kamala Harris would win a squeaker here and that Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) would survive.
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“The Fiore pardon is very unusual in the totality of the way clemency has been used in American history, because it’s for such an overtly political figure and because of the lack of remorse and because it’s done before sentencing,” he said. Yes, she checks all those boxes.

President Donald Trump’s full and unconditional pardon of Nevada politician Michele Fiore on April 23 broke with multiple traditions, according to experts. https://t.co/skiXRkMb7n

Republicans have high hopes again of flipping Nevada's three House seats held by Democrats. But they are high if they think retreads are the answer to their prayers. All three seats still lean solidly Dem. The early landscape, via @birenbomb.

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RT @eric_neugeboren: Michele Fiore is awaiting a decision from the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline about whether she will be suspe…