Ralston is the founder and CEO of The Nevada Independent. He has been covering politics in Nevada for more than 30 years. His blog, Ralston Reports, launched in 2012 and now lives on The Nevada Independent website. Ralston wrote for the Las Vegas Review-Journal for 15 years, the last seven as a freelance columnist. In 1999, Greenspun Media Group purchased his political newsletter, The Ralston Report, and hired him as a columnist for the Las Vegas Sun, where he worked until September 2012.