Politics and Government
Never has a Nevada Legislature convened with as bizarre of a beginning as the one that opens here Monday. All eyes will be on embattled District 17 Assemblyman Steven Brooks, D-North Las Vegas, as he walks into the Assembly chambers. Some expect a meltdown.
When it comes to Nevada Legislature and new taxes, the Republicans have the power to stop all of them this session.
Assembly Majority Leader William Horne said Friday he expects a select committee that will consider if embattled Assemblyman Steven Brooks is fit to serve to do its work as quickly as possible.
The lawyer for embattled Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks says his client is out of the hospital.
The Nevada Supreme Court handed off to legislators a Nevada State Education Association business tax petition Thursday, in effect crying “Let the tax battle begin.”
Nevadans could soon see one of the biggest expansions of state government in modern history as Medicaid, a program that provides health care coverage to low-income residents, moves to cover more than 170,000 new enrollees by 2015.
Secretary of State Ross Miller said Tuesday the cost of his proposal to include photos of voters in election poll books used at polling places to prevent fraud is $787,200, far less than originally estimated.
Most state museums would be open at least one more day a week under Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed $6.55 billion proposed budget, Nevada legislators were told Tuesday.
The Assembly Democratic Caucus said Tuesday that it will be “business as usual” on the first day of the 2013 legislative session Monday, despite the controversy over the recent behavior of Democratic Assemblyman Steven Brooks.
After a legislative career that included a record eight terms as Assembly speaker, Joe Dini says he knows a sure-fire way for legislators to avoid partisanship in the session that begins Feb. 4 and leave Carson City in June not hating each other.
Nevada health authorities might get a new tool to deal with mentally ill people who appear to be a danger to themselves or others: a court order committing them to outpatient care and regular medication.
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 […]
Sen. Jacky Rosen reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would implement “no taxes on tips,” a major campaign promise of President-elect Donald Trump.
A $200 million public-private partnership to reduce homelessness in Southern Nevada will move forward, Gov. Joe Lombardo said in his State of the State speech.
The high-rise was approved on Wednesday by the Las Vegas City Council.
Gov. Joe Lombardo made sweeping policy proposals at his State of the State Address, including making teacher raises permanent and extending pay raises to charter school teachers.
