Six years ago, the crowd was less than adoring, occasionally laughing at and booing the longtime former Democrat. Today, the intro music is more likely to be “Hail to the Chief” when President Donald Trump takes the stage Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The audience will have changed its tune, too.
Politics and Government
It’s the third Friday of the 2017 Legislative Session, and lawmakers are, once again, heading out early. There’s still plenty happening on Day 19.
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.
Planned Parenthood and affiliated groups met in a town hall-style event Thursday night at the Clark County Library in protest of U.S. Sen. Dean Heller’s policies and his support of President Donald Trump.
State Sen. Heidi Gansert said a lawsuit is “meritless” in its claim that she is violating Nevada’s separation-of-powers clause by working for a university and serving as a state legislator.
Every school in Nevada would be required to establish and maintain a library — with a dedicated librarian — under a proposal presented to the Senate education committee.
Nevada crime victims may get expanded rights that are enshrined in the state constitution.
Students who are not on track to graduate from high school in four years will be given an individualized graduation plan under the provisions in a bill introduced Thursday.
The solution to the financial difficulties cited by local governments in their campaign to raise your property taxes should be simple.
Nevada middle and high school students would learn about organ and tissue donation in health class, according to a proposal presented to the Senate education committee.
The Department of Energy said Thursday its scientists are taking the final steps to modernize the W88 thermonuclear warhead for Navy Trident II ballistic missiles.
U.S Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said Thursday in Las Vegas that any push to revive the Yucca Mountain Project would be a “waste of time” and taxpayer money.
Nevada and other states with legalized recreational marijuana should expect “greater enforcement” of the federal law that criminalizes the drug, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.
Victims who were sexually abused as children may get more time to sue their perpetrators.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday the administration is committed to getting major tax reform legislation through Congress by August.