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Politics and Government
CARSON CITY — Sen. Mark Amodei complained Monday that a proposed constitutional amendment would take the power to seat judges away from the people and give it to political “insiders.”
CARSON CITY — A conservative watchdog organization contended Monday that Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley’s bill to reduce foreclosures will lead to lenders charging higher interest rates, pricing more people out of homes.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers will start their fourth week of the 2009 session on Monday with a review of a plan to create a forced savings account to ensure more stability in the state budget, now being hammered by a global economic downturn.
Gwendolyn Martin has hepatitis C.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons backed off Friday from his plan to require casinos to pay gaming taxes more quickly on “markers,” or credit extended to players.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers were asked Friday to support a bill stepping up record-keeping to help prevent the mentally ill from obtaining guns, but they were warned by a critic of the plan that it’s a “stacked deck” targeting constitutional rights.
CARSON CITY — Nevada legislators who want to repeal tax exemptions and use the money to balance the state budget might find that difficult because legislative fiscal analysts said Thursday they could not compute how much the many tax breaks yield.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel voted Thursday for a bill that allows police to stop any driver they think isn’t wearing a seat belt.
CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio on Thursday criticized Clark County government officials for offering cost-of-living raises to its employees when state government might be forced to cut salaries by 6 percent.
CARSON CITY — Told that the state’s prison population is lower than expected, members of a Senate-Assembly budget panel said Thursday that they would like a delay in new prison construction and an end to plans to shut down an old prison and an inmate camp.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons got his wish Thursday when state senators unanimously upheld his veto of a bill passed in 2007 that would have allowed rural counties to raise property taxes to construct juvenile detention facilities.
CARSON CITY — Southern Nevadans can testify about their experiences with the hepatitis C outbreak during a special legislative meeting at 8 a.m. Saturday in room 4401 of the Sawyer Building in Las Vegas.
A joint resolution proposed by state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford and Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick seeks to ban experimental aircraft flights out of North Las Vegas Airport.
CARSON CITY — Assembly Republican leaders said Wednesday that Sen. Harry Reid should have secured more funds for Nevada in the $787 billion economic stimulus package signed into law Tuesday by President Barack Obama.
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 […]
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.
Carrie Underwood opened Resorts World Theatre in November 2021. Next week she’s starring at Trump’s inaugural event.
