A raucous crowd of more than 600 teachers and parents blasted potential state budget cuts for K-12 education during a rally Saturday at Chaparral High School organized by the Clark County Education Association, the teachers’ union.
Nevada
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers start their second week of the 2009 session on Monday with a review of Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons’ plan to save money by abolishing the state’s Consumer Health Assistance Office.
CARSON CITY — The head of Nevada’s Republican Party says four new Democratic legislators are being targeted in a “guerrilla” effort to head off any higher taxes by chipping away at the Democrats’ veto-proof 28-14 majority in the Assembly.
CARSON CITY — Why do some Las Vegans drive 80 miles every week to a gas station in Dolan Springs, Ariz., or 40 miles to a convenience store on the California side of Primm?
CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, complained Friday that the “so-called sound stimulus package” being debated in the U.S. Senate will be of little help to Nevada because the state must spend hundreds of millions of dollars it doesn’t have in order to qualify for key federal education grants.
WASHINGTON — The Senate approved an amendment on Friday declaring that no money from the multibillion-dollar economic stimulus bill may be spent on recreation projects including museums, golf courses, aquariums or zoos.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Thursday that he still plans to seek an additional quarter-cent sales tax increase from the Legislature to hire more police officers this year.
CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio objected Thursday when legislators spoke of trying to find state funds to open the $47 million, still-unfinished Nevada State Museum at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve.
CARSON CITY — A legislative proposal enabling authorities to prosecute people who view child pornography prompted concerns Wednesday that it could be used against people who unintentionally go to an Internet porn page.
CARSON CITY — Democratic legislative leaders said Wednesday they must spend at least $500 million more on education than Gov. Jim Gibbons proposes in his budget before the state can qualify for federal economic stimulus grants.
CARSON CITY — Senate Taxation Committee Chairman Bob Coffin warned Tuesday that no business will be immune from tax increases if legislators decide the state needs additional revenue to cover essential program costs.
CARSON CITY — Nevadans are wasting no time in sending ideas to state lawmakers, who convened their 2009 session on Monday — and already have about 1,200 suggestions on taxing prostitution, creating a state lottery and other steps to help erase a revenue shortfall.
CARSON CITY — In the midst of the worst recession in generations, the 75th session of the Nevada Legislature opened Monday with Democratic leaders warning of spending cuts and promising to retain essential services.
CARSON CITY — Steven Horsford, the new Senate majority leader, begins the 75th session of the Legislature today already having rejected Gov. Jim Gibbons’ spending plan as not fitting his vision of Nevada as a great state that cares about its less fortunate.
Majority Leader Steven Horsford’s opening remarks