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Nevada
A large field of Republicans hope to win their party’s nomination to take on Lee in the fall. Here’s what you need to know.
Five Republicans entered the June 11 primary for Nevada’s 1st Congressional District, currently held by longtime Democratic Rep. Dina Titus.
Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced a bill to revoke the law making Yucca Mountain, located 90 miles from Las Vegas, a nuclear waste repository.
The New York Times/Siena College poll found that if the election were held today, 50 percent would pick Donald Trump and 38 percent would pick Joe Biden.
The Nevada Senate’s new Republican majority is slipping Democratic ideas into GOP bills. The tactic forces Democrats into awkward choices, and it lets the GOP get its priorities through while also taking credit for popular Democratic proposals.
Nevada and Arizona lawmakers laid more groundwork last week for a new highway to link their states to points north and south.
Twelve children died from abuse or neglect in Nevada over the last two years, according to a recent legislative auditor’s review. Another nine abused children almost succumbed to their injuries during the same time period.
Las Vegas police don’t plan to prosecute any Nevada lawmakers in connection with an alleged extortion plot aimed at Nevada Republican Assemblyman Chris Edwards.
Civil libertarians raised new concerns Friday over a bill sought by the Nevada Department of Corrections to make all agency records confidential following this week’s revelations that an inmate was shot and killed by a state prison guard four months ago.
The documented ill health effects from inhaling secondhand smoke were squared off against individual rights at a hearing Thursday on a bill that would ban smoking in cars while children are present.
Assemblyman Randy Kirner told two hearing rooms filled with public union members on Wednesday that his bill to make several changes to the state’s collective bargaining law to benefit local governments and taxpayers does not constitute “union Armageddon” as has been characterized by some labor officials.
Private entity groups would be allowed to place pooled wagers at Nevada sports books under a bill making a comeback in the Nevada Senate. Recently introduced Senate Bill 443 would allow a business entity to register with state gambling regulators and place big bets on football, basketball, boxing and other sports.
A Republican state lawmaker’s move to raise Nevada’s base wage appears popular, though progressives want more.
Nevada Assemblyman Pat Hickey is making another effort this session to establish a cooling-off period for state lawmakers who want to become contract lobbyists at the Legislature.
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