When Nevada’s presidential electors would vote, I would always try to attend. It was such an antiquated remnant of the past. As often as not, I was the only one attending. In 1984, there was one television crew and me – no one else.
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As on most issues, President-elect Donald Trump has been all over the map on military issues throughout his campaign and post-campaign pronouncements.
In order to make America great again, we need to once again celebrate and champion success, rather than disparage, demean and ridicule it.
A challenge of the holidays is finding activities to entertain out-of-town visitors or easily-bored children. An easy answer might be a winter visit to one of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area’s multitude of trails.
In the 1950s when U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy and other legislators, including Nevada’s Pat McCarran, spread stories of communists in government, journalism was their unwitting ally.
The Department of Veterans Affairs clinic that recently opened here in Pahrump was a welcome addition to the town for veterans and their families who have been wounded or otherwise need medical care. I was at the ribbon cutting for the original clinic years ago, and that was greeted with open arms. But with the advent of the Middle East wars, it soon became overwhelmed with patients.
Each election I collect campaign materials from around Nevada and elsewhere. It helps to stay up on the techniques employed in them. I save television spots, leaflets, whatever. I send out requests to friends to save me their campaign mail pieces from the last couple of weeks of each campaign.
In the 1989 movie “Batman,” Jack Nicholson, playing the Joker, declared, “This town needs an enema!”
There’s no one “key” to why so many believe that journalists missed the rise and election of Donald Trump as president — and that’s a good thing to keep in mind for the future.