Arnold M. Knightly, The Editor's Desk

In last week’s column I discussed how current Republican Congressman Joe Heck avoided a rematch with Dina Titus, the former representative for Nevada’s District 3 who narrowly lost to Heck in 2010. Titus and many other Democrats have decided to jump into Congressional races in more left-leaning districts instead of taking the incumbent Heck head-on.

That is, Democrats other than state Assembly Speaker John Oceguera. Although his campaign office told me last week he was going to run in the 3rd District, which includes Boulder City, he didn’t officially make a lot of noise about it until Tuesday when he issued a press release.

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By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review

Defeated U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle may want to look into buying a house in Boulder City where she would, apparently, be among friends.

Angle and many Republicans did at least 10 percentage points better in Boulder City during the Nov. 2 election than in the rest of Clark County and the state, complete election results released last week show.

Boulder City residents cast their ballots on Nov. 2 at the city's recreation center. Nearly 75.6 percent of the city's 9,559 registered voters participated in the midterm elections. City residents heavily backed Republican candidates including defeated U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle, who received 55.8 percent of the local vote. Photo by Steve Andrascik

Angle captured 55.8 percent of the vote in Boulder City, 14.5 points better than she did in Clark County and 11.2 points higher than the statewide total.

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By Dennis Myers, Commentary

On Oct. 17 an outfit called Americans United for Change and a Nevada political consulting corporation called Organized Karma put out a news release “demanding” that KLAS, KVVU, KTNV, and KSNV take some political television commercials off the air.

One of the headlines, there were three, on the release read, “Outraged Nevadans Demanding End to Lies Perpetuated by KLAS, KVVU, KTNV, and KSNV.”

This line was about as intellectually honest as the ad the two groups were trying to get off the air.

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By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will dedicate the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge on Thursday, Oct. 14 at 10 a.m., the U.S. Department of Transportation announced this morning.

Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer are scheduled to attend, as well as Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Dina Titus.

Family members of the O’Callaghan and Tillman family will also attend the event.

Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki will attend on behalf of Gov. Jim Gibbons, who was injured last month in a horse-riding accident.

The $250 million bypass bridge could open as soon as the week of Oct. 18, according to Boulder City officials.