CARSON CITY — Three-quarters of the way through the 2009 Nevada Legislature, lobbyists have spent $124,858 on food and drinks at dinners, receptions and other events held to promote their clients’ interests.
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CARSON CITY — After months of discussion of everything but, the Legislature finally started talking taxes Thursday.
The higher education system’s Board of Regents could have raised tuition Thursday, but it did not.
CARSON CITY — A decision on whether to set up procedures for authorizing toll roads in Nevada won’t come until just before a deadline today when the bill must pass, or it automatically dies for the remainder of the 2009 Legislature.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance a stripped-down version of a bill that would have allowed authorities to conduct secret searches on electronic communications and seize funds on prepaid debit cards without a warrant.
CARSON CITY — A construction defect bill sought by Nevada’s powerful but struggling construction industry and a measure to loosen caps on medical malpractice awards have died in key legislative committees.
CARSON CITY — The Public Employees Retirement System bases its investment decisions on securing the best financial return for its members and cannot stop investing in companies doing business with Iranian oil firms, legislators were told Thursday.
CARSON CITY — Despite what you may be hearing from Nevada legislators, raising taxes isn’t the solution to the state’s budget woes, according to a radio ad a conservative group is set to begin airing statewide today.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel voted unanimously Wednesday for an Assembly-approved proposal allowing civil lawsuits when victims of childhood sex crimes learn there’s pornography depicting the crimes against them.
CARSON CITY — Legislative leaders working on a plan for more than $1 billion in new revenue from various sources were criticized Wednesday by Gov. Jim Gibbons for making “covert deals” behind closed doors to raise taxes.
CARSON CITY — Having approved the major pieces of a $6.8 billion spending plan, lawmakers Wednesday turned their attention to how to pay for it, a negotiation that is expected to be as delicate as it is rushed.
CARSON CITY — A Senate-passed bill to allow patrons to smoke in bars that serve food could die because there is not enough time to consider amendments, a chairman said Wednesday.
It could have been worse, so there is relief among many in the state’s higher education community. There will not be massive layoffs. Important programs probably won’t be lost in their entirety. Students will not be forking over twice as much to go to school next year, as some feared they would.
CARSON CITY — An Assembly-approved bill to let some patients seek unlimited damages in medical malpractice lawsuits was being held up in the Senate in apparent retaliation for an Assembly committee chairman’s decision to sit on two Senate-passed construction defect bills.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Senate has passed an Assembly-approved bill that would tighten state laws to ensure that people convicted of drunken driving in urban areas attend meetings with victims or family or close friends of DUI victims.
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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