Category Archives: NV Legislature

January 31, 2025 Nevada State Budgets hang in the balance with the possible Federal funding freeze.  A federal judge stepped in and temporarily blocked the president’s order, but that didn’t stop the chaos and confusion that followed across the country and right here in Nevada.  This all comes as several agencies were in front of […]

January 10, 2025 In the wake of the devastating California wildfires, Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto plans to reintroduce a proposal in Congress to better fund fire departments, interagency coordination and recovery efforts. In a landmark decision for property rights, a Washoe County judge has ruled that Nevada law enforcement cannot exploit a federal […]

January 3, 2025 Happy New Year!!  As Nevadans ring in the new year with fireworks and festivities, new laws passed by the Legislature a year and a half prior will take effect, from a diaper tax exemption to a wage requirement for employees with disabilities. And well before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a […]

December 27, 2024 The Bureau of Land Management has launched a last minute review of the proposed Rock Valley Solar Project in the Amargosa Valley in Nye County, which would produce and store enough renewable energy to power about 360,000 homes in Nevada and California.  Federal land managers will determine whether one of the largest […]

November 28, 2024 Governor Joe Lombardo is vowing to make some serious changes within several state agencies this week.  The Clark County School District soon will have a monitor checking its actions, Gov. Joe Lombardo and Nevada Superintendent of Public Instruction Jhone Ebert announced on Monday. After receiving its largest amount of funding of $4 […]

November 15, 2024 Voters in Nevada had the chance to fix signature errors with their mail ballots by Tuesday, Nov. 12. However, as of Wednesday about 9,000 ballots throughout Nevada did not have signatures verified and were not counted, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office. Nevada’s tourism economy could hit some “bumps in the […]

October 18, 2024 This week in Nevada, GOP candidate Sam Brown spent Thursday’s Nevada Senate debate taking shots at Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen as he still faces a polling deficit with Election Day creeping nearer.  The Las Vegas City Council delayed a vote on a proposal to strengthen its camping ban in line with a recent Supreme […]

October 4, 2024 The general election is only 32 days away.  That’s when voters in Nevada will help decide the presidential race between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, the U.S. Senate tilt with incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Republican challenger Sam Brown, and other local and federal races.  There are also seven […]

September 13, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris now holds a 23-percentage point lead over former President Donald Trump among registered Hispanic voters in Nevada. And in the first-ever face-to-face meeting between Harris and Trump underscored just how much the race for the White House has changed since President Joe Biden dropped out after his miserable […]

August 30. 2024 The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority estimated that 331,000 people would visit Southern Nevada for the traditional end of summer, a 3.4 percent increase over the 320,000 that were here for Labor Day 2023.  As summer comes to an end with the Labor Day weekend, the countdown begins with all of […]