The R-C Morning Report

The Morning Report would like to congratulate the winners of Tuesday's primary election race, the 10,370 voters of Douglas County who turned out to vote.

Oh, yeah, and those folks who took their elections, too, James Settelmeyer, Nancy McDermid and Lynn EnEarl, all of whom won handily and go on to face opponents in the General Election.

Nearly 48 percent of Douglas County's Republicans turned out to vote. About 38 percent of Democrats, who had fewer races on the ballot, turned out. Non-partisan voters were also non-participating voters with a turnout of 13.27 percent. They'll show up for the general election, though, maybe.

The big story this morning is the slim margin Secretary of State Dean Heller holds over Sharron Angle in the primary to see who goes up against Carson Valley resident Jill Derby for representative in U.S. Congress.

Anyone reading recordcourier.com on election night learned Heller had the narrowest of margins with a 366-vote lead while other Web sites were calling him out of the race. With all precincts reporting, Heller widened that gap to 428 votes or just over half a percentage point. It would not shock us to learn a recount is in the works.

Speaking of Jill Derby, it looks like Carson City's Ron Knecht and Yerington's David Fulstone II will face off to take over Derby's chair on the University Board of Regents.

We really must remember to ask those gentlemen about their support of the Nevada Open Meeting Law.

There's a fire warning in effect today from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., thanks to 18-mph winds that will allegedly gust to up to 36 mph. It's been dry, too, with chance of vegetation igniting running near 90 percent. The good news, no lightning in the forecast and the temperatures will be in the high 80s. The bad news, there are a lot of people out there interacting with the vegetation with things that can cause fires.