Gwendolyn Martin has hepatitis C.
Politics and Government
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.
Parents of more than two-dozen children who depend on the state to fulfill their medical needs showed up at the Sawyer Building on Wednesday to explain how proposed Medicaid cuts would impact their lives. They didn’t get the chance. The 45 minutes allocated for public comment evaporated before Sara King, the mother of a child with cerebral palsy, and others made it to the microphone.
CARSON CITY — Children’s advocates contested the assertion of a child welfare official who told legislators Monday that homelessness has not increased since the recession began.
CARSON CITY — State officials warned Monday that proposed staffing cuts for the Nevada Equal Rights Commission will increase the time needed by the panel to resolve job discrimination claims, prompting criticism from a lawmaker.
CARSON CITY — Legislative fiscal analysts calculated that state government will net about $480 million in federal economic stimulus funds that can be used to plug part of a $1.8 billion hole in the governor’s budget, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley said Monday.
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 […]
The number of registered Republicans has surpassed the number of Democrats in Nevada, according to the latest voter registration statistics.
The wife of an illegal bookmaker would be kicked out of the gaming industry for at least five years if the Nevada Gaming Commission approves a settlement.
Colleagues complained about the affair the then-public administrator was having with a subordinate, but the county didn’t look at their messages during the investigation.
President Donald Trump vowed to work with Congress to eliminate taxes on tipped income during a Las Vegas rally Saturday.
