Nevada
CARSON CITY — State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford and Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick were voted the best legislators of the 2011 legislative session in a Review-Journal poll of lawmakers, reporters and lobbyists.
On the morning of May 26, Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Douglas sent his staff on a critical errand. They were to hand-deliver copies of a 32-page court decision to lawmakers who had just 12 days left to approve a state budget.
CARSON CITY — After four months of lobbying, hearings, amendments, wrangling, horse trading and fiery floor debates, the biggest homeowners association bill of the Nevada legislative session got “postponed to a later agenda” with minutes left before the final gavel fell.
An airtight, soundproof glass wall wraps around the bar at the Four Kegs sports bar in Las Vegas, separating smoking drinkers from dining patrons.
The Impact Nevada TV program for this weekend examines some of the final votes in the 2011 Legislature session, which ended Tuesday. (9:30 p.m., Ch. 10).
Cooney’s bill became Cooney’s Law on Friday when Gov. Brian Sandoval signed into law legislation that makes it a felony to unjustifiably mutilate, torture, maim or kill animals.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Thursday he will not call the Legislature back into a special session to deal with the thorny and unresolved issue of redistricting.