Politics and Government
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.
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 […]
This marks Harris’ eighth visit to the Silver State this year. She last visited in August, just a couple of weeks since launching her presidential bid.
An audit discovered the owners of the locals casinos overpaid gaming taxes for years.
Gov. Joe Lombardo sent a letter requesting a legislative commission expand an audit of the CCSD to include an investigation into its potential budget shortfalls.
The Nevada Supreme Court has ordered the dismissal of a sex abuse indictment against Nathan Chasing Horse, while leaving open the possibility of charges being refiled.