Politics and Government
Assemblyman Pat Hickey isn’t a true freshman taking a seat for the first time at the 2011 Legislature. But there is a world’s difference between the Assembly in which the Reno Republican served in 1997 and the one he will enter on Feb. 7.
CARSON CITY — Former U.S. Attorney Greg Brower, ex-state Treasurer Patty Cafferata and former state Tax Commission Chairwoman Barbara Smith Campbell head up the known list of candidates applying to replace Bill Raggio in the state Senate.
CARSON CITY — Eight years ago Ben Kieckhefer took a seat in the press gallery in the rear of the state Senate chambers as a reporter covering the Legislature for The Associated Press.
A bill in the works for the upcoming legislative session aims to thwart methamphetamine makers by making legal drugs with certain ingredients available by prescription only. The bill would require customers to have a prescription from a doctor to purchase cold medicines that contain ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine.
Elizabeth Halseth is among the most unlikely of Carson City newcomers. The newly elected senator for District 9 in Clark County has only lived in Nevada since 2006, doesn’t have deep political connections, didn’t study politics in college and wasn’t endorsed by either major newspaper in her Las Vegas-area district in the general election.
When Juan Bustamante told his young daughter, Irene, she had gifts that could help others, he was talking about her ability to pick grapes faster than other migrant workers.
CARSON CITY– Newly elected Assemblyman Pete Livermore, R-Carson City, can remember the names and addresses of businesses and people along the mail route he worked nearly 50 years ago.
CARSON CITY — Assemblywoman-elect Teresa Benitez-Thompson, D-Reno, doubts most people would realize she is a former Miss Nevada if they caught her shopping in her neighborhood.
Between them, Randolph Townsend and Terry Care have 40 years of experience as Nevada senators and are well-qualified to offer some practical advice for the newbies heading to the 2011 Legislature.
Nevadans will be hard pressed to find someone who has traveled a longer path to Carson City than Scott Hammond.
Cresent Hardy may be new to the state Legislature, but he’s no greenhorn. Hardy, newly elected to represent Assembly District 20 in Clark County, traces his family history in America all the way back to the 1600s when one Thomas Hardy arrived near what is now Essex, Mass.
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 […]
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.
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, publicly faced senators for the first time after weeks of questions from Democrats — and praise from Republicans — about his “unconventional” resume.
Las Vegas’ Planning Commission could vote on a set of items related to a new housing development proposed for the defunct Badlands golf course, according to the body’s meeting agenda.
There are more than 200 missing and more than 300 unidentified individuals in the state of Nevada, according to a news release from the Clark County coroner’s office.
