CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said Monday that the governor should tell lawmakers he’ll take the same pay cut that state workers face.
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CARSON CITY — There is a chess game going on between the Legislature and Gov. Jim Gibbons.
CARSON CITY — Increases in sales, car registration and two other taxes will bring in about $709 million of the $780 million in tax increases that legislative leaders think they must pass before June 1 to limit state budget reductions to a reasonable level.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers open their next-to-last full week of the 2009 session on Monday with an outline of a nearly $800 million tax increase plan that they hope to finalize and send by the week’s end to the governor, who will veto it.
CARSON CITY — Despite concern it will fan feuds between neighbors, Assembly members voted 32-8 Saturday for a bill to limit how long one can chain a dog.
CARSON CITY — A plan to roll back a voter-approved ban on smoking in many public places, sought by Nevada bars, restaurants and casinos but opposed by public health advocates, died Friday without an Assembly committee vote needed to keep it alive.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly voted 34-5 Friday for a bill to let Washoe County commissioners enact a voter-approved motor fuel tax increase.
CARSON CITY — Same- and opposite-sex couples could secure domestic partnership contracts giving them the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexual married couples under a bill that received overwhelming support Friday in the Assembly.
CARSON CITY — Local government officials complained Friday about legislative “tax grab” plans that target them to help close a $1.1 billion gap in Nevada’s budget for the next two fiscal years.
The Nevada Freedom of Information Coalition announced Thursday that it is asking all members of the Legislature to sign a “transparency pledge” demonstrating their commitment to open government.
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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