May 23, 2025 Today is the deadline for bills to pass out of their second house of the Legislature. With the June 2 constitutionally mandated end of session looming, there are roughly 100 bills that must pass out of their second legislative house today or die. Governor Joe Lombardo received Senate Bill 451 (SB451) from the Nevada […]
May 16, 2025 Today, May 16, marks the 103rd day of the Legislative session and Committee Passage (Second House) deadline. Nevada Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager is proposing the state tap into the Rainy Day Fund to provide additional pay for public school district teachers in hard-to-fill positions, citing the success similar funding provided two years […]
March 21, 2025 Legislative Updates Important Dates: March 24 Last day for committee bill introductions April 11th First house passage deadline June 2nd Sine die ‘Soil is a living thing:’ Why a healthy dirt program is again before Nevada lawmakers With soil as the backbone of healthy food and people, regenerative agriculture […]
March 14, 2025 The Clark County School Board unanimously selected Jhone Ebert, Nevada’s superintendent of public instruction, to be the Clark County School District’s next leader. The additional pay for teachers working in special education and Title I schools is coming to an end before the conclusion of the school year, according to an email […]
March 7, 2025 In what could be a headlining topic of the 2025 Legislature, lawmakers heard a bill that would dramatically increase tax credits for film industries to lure a film studio and the jobs that come with it to Southern Nevada, creating a mini-Hollywood in Las Vegans’ backyard. Deportations ordered by President Donald Trump […]
February 28, 2024 Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford gave a potential preview of the 2026 gubernatorial election, sparring over Ford’s recommendations for how agencies deal with immigration enforcement issues. The film tax bill is making headlines, two film industry giants, along with one of Las Vegas’s most prolific developers, are […]
February 21, 2025 The Legislative session is well under way with 574 bills introduced as of today. Supporters of a bill taking aim at “ghost kitchens” on food delivery apps contend it will address phony delivery-only restaurant operations through penalties against the app or platform. Assembly Bill 116 requires food delivery apps only work with […]
February 14, 2025 Happy Valentine’s Day! Ready or not, the 2026 race for the Nevada governor’s seat is beginning next week. This week, Gov. Joe Lombardo pushed legislators to issue a resolution urging the federal government to release land for housing development in Nevada, though the leaders of the Democratic-majority Legislature have plans of their […]
November 22, 2024 The discussions over water and public land are some of the big topics in Nevada news this week. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released a breakdown of five potential paths forward for thefragile state-to-state negotiations surrounding Colorado River operating guidelines that must be updated by 2026. The Colorado River, which is Southern […]
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 […]