CARSON CITY — Assemblyman Harvey Munford found some surprising opposition Wednesday to his bill to penalize students who cheat: the Clark County School District, the Nevada Association of School Superintendents and the Nevada System of Higher Education.
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The day after some of their Senate colleagues called for a mining tax increase to compete with a teacher-backed margins tax on the 2014 ballot, Assembly Republicans Wednesday said the focus this session instead should be on reforms that will save taxpayer dollars.
Nevada would more quickly report mentally ill patients to a federal registry to ban people committed to institutions from buying firearms under a bill that also would require background checks for all gun purchases.
The state Senate unanimously passed and sent to the governor Tuesday a bill that would change the formula on how the state distributes taxes to local governments.
In a dramatic reversal of their no-new-taxes position, Senate Republican leaders said Tuesday that state government must spend more money on education and announced they support increasing mining taxes to accomplish that goal, although not until 2015.
CARSON CITY — To keep Nevada “First in the West,” Sen. James Settelmeyer introduced a bill Monday to require presidential primaries to be conducted in the third week in January.
CARSON CITY — Sen. Pat Spearman, a North Las Vegas pastor and openly gay member of the Legislature, asked her colleagues on the Judiciary Committee on Monday to expand the state’s hate crime law to include victims of gender identity or expression.
CARSON CITY — Legislators and parole officers questioned Monday why Gov. Brian Sandoval wants to move part of the Division of Parole and Probation into the Department of Corrections when the agency is working fine.
CARSON CITY — The attorney for embattled Assemblyman Steven Brooks on Monday filed a writ with the Nevada Supreme Court asking that the troubled lawmaker be allowed to serve in the Legislature.
Former Rep. Shelley Berkley said she is weighing two job opportunities but might not decide for a few more months what path to follow after a 14-year career in Congress.
Nevada doesn’t have statewide gun registration requirements, but people in Clark County are subject to registration rules.
CARSON CITY — Assemblyman Steven Brooks might soon suffer the ultimate political loss if he is found unfit for office by his peers, but he isn’t the only victim of his own recent erratic behavior.
CARSON CITY — An initiative to tax businesses grossing more than $1 million a year gets its first hearing before state lawmakers and will headline the discussion as the Nevada Legislature enters its fifth week.
CARSON CITY — In the so-called War on Drugs, authorities go after the users as well as the suppliers. Cut the demand enough, and the war is won.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of leading economists put the probability of the United States going into recession over the next 12 months at 63 percent. Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Reserve Bank will continue raising interest rates to combat stubborn high inflation, thereby slowing the economy and causing gross domestic product to […]
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