Must have been a slow news day.

Laura Myers has gone to a reliably GOP company to give Sharron Angle a very lengthy tome about "repealing" the estate tax. http://www.lvrj.com/news/angle-pledge-to-highlight-family-s-estate-tax-plight-98905789.html

Thanks Laura. Sharron must be beaming that ear-to-ear grin. Is she also paying you, or, like most of the high-end taxes, doesn't that trickle down?

So, the Senate finally gets through to passing unemployment benes after a GOP-led month stall and the RJ sees fit to not cover it with its own staff.

Funny how that works -- give it the top of the fold and two local reporters when you think the GOP might win a fight. Then when the Democrats (not to mention, 20,000 out-of-work Nevadas who may actually have time to read the paper) win the RJ runs the AP story.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/bill-clears-senate-hurdle-98905749.html

John L. Smith takes the firefighter's union bait today. http://www.lvrj.com/news/firefighters--ad-attacks-rory-reid-for-mothballing-rescue-unit-98905784.html

The firefighters have a $2,600 ad buy which is designed to get media attention and help them in negotiations with the county. Smith jumped right onto it, as did Jon Ralston, who had Ryan Beamen of the union on his show Tuesday.

The RJ finally corrected its stupid poll coverage errors from the weekend. Well, it corrected some of them.

"In Sunday's story regarding a recent poll question that asked Nevadans if they agreed with a recent Supreme Court decision that expands free speech rights to corporations and unions, the name of University of Nevada, Reno political science professor Eric Herzik was misspelled. Also, the decision effectively scuttled a previous ban on corporations advocating for or against a candidate in their independent advertising."

We complained about those errors Monday. Glad someone's reading us and not just them.

These errors, as you'll recall, were in a piece by Doug McMurdo.

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On Tuesday, the RJ was a  Lotsa-Correcta-Bear.

"In a Living story in Sunday's Las Vegas Review-Journal about local TV commercials that annoy R-J readers, the ads featuring the finger-pointing highway patrol officer do not belong to Ticket Busters, which is a division of the Richard Harris Law Firm. The commercials in question were produced by 702 TRAFFIC."

What a great topic for valuable Sunday Living space. We kid. Basically the RJ asks people what pisses them off and then doesn't correctly write who is responsible for pissing them off. Classic. This forgettable piece was by Corey Levitan.

The second of what were four official fuck-ups Sunday belongs to food critic Heidi Knapp Rinella, who might do better sticking to what the kids eat.

"In a story on childhood obesity Sunday, the name of registered dietitian Angelique Marquez was incorrect. And the Children's Heart Center Nevada is a private pediatric cardiology practice not affiliated with Sunrise Children's Hospital."

Finally, the RJ can't even print numbers correctly when they're e-mailed over on press releases -- no math involved. Clearly they aren't double-checking the right-wing candidates' math if they can't even type the numbers correctly.

This Heck error was from a Laura Myers story with the put-you-to-sleep passive headline: "Titus has Heck on her heels."