CARSON CITY — More emotional testimony was given Friday on a plan that would give domestic partners, gay or straight, rights and benefits that Nevada offers to married couples.
Politics and Government
By BRENDAN RILEY
CARSON CITY — A state-funded program under which 32 investigators check out allegations of child abuse in Clark County will continue operating despite the withdrawal of state funds.
CARSON CITY — No vote was taken Thursday following a 20-minute hearing on a bill to get around the Electoral College and guarantee the candidate with the most popular votes nationally becomes president.
CARSON CITY — Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley said Thursday that Gov. Jim Gibbons’ amended plan to balance the state budget is illegal because he wants to use federal stimulus funds to cover costs of current full-day kindergarten.
CARSON CITY — A key legislative budget panel voted Wednesday on final details of a $515.1 million, two-year spending plan for Nevada’s prison system that’s about $30 million higher than Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposal.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons released a budget plan Wednesday to cover a new $900 million revenue shortfall without raising taxes.
CARSON CITY — Rather than cut teacher salaries, the state’s largest school districts will make cuts elsewhere, possibly resulting in larger classes and elimination of school programs.
CARSON CITY — Despite a commitment from legislators to reduce proposed pay cuts, leaders of the state and Clark County teachers unions said Tuesday that they still might file a lawsuit against the state or school districts on the grounds that public education has not been adequately funded.
CARSON CITY — Her bill wouldn’t help every person behind on home mortgage payments, but Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley said Tuesday that analyses show it could keep 17,700 Nevada families from losing homes to foreclosure.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons made a lot of fourth-graders happy Monday when he signed into law a bill making the vivid dancer damselfly Nevada’s official state insect.
CARSON CITY — An Assembly panel was urged Monday to pass a Senate-approved plan to ensure that open meeting laws are followed by government agencies when they revise their regulations.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers approved the equivalent of a 4 percent cut in teacher salaries and a mandatory furlough of one day per month for other state employees Monday as they struggled to formulate a state budget amid historic revenue shortfalls.
CARSON CITY — In a state where people value small government and little intervention in their private lives, the Nevada Legislature is considering several bills that would increase the power of authorities to collect and store sensitive information on the people they seek to protect.
CARSON CITY — With a vital revenue report in hand, Nevada legislators start the 14th week of the 2009 session on Monday with a joint meeting of Senate and Assembly budget panels trying to resolve their differences in proposed spending for the next two fiscal years.
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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