CARSON CITY — Despite what you may be hearing from Nevada legislators, raising taxes isn’t the solution to the state’s budget woes, according to a radio ad a conservative group is set to begin airing statewide today.
Politics and Government
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel voted unanimously Wednesday for an Assembly-approved proposal allowing civil lawsuits when victims of childhood sex crimes learn there’s pornography depicting the crimes against them.
CARSON CITY — Legislative leaders working on a plan for more than $1 billion in new revenue from various sources were criticized Wednesday by Gov. Jim Gibbons for making “covert deals” behind closed doors to raise taxes.
CARSON CITY — Having approved the major pieces of a $6.8 billion spending plan, lawmakers Wednesday turned their attention to how to pay for it, a negotiation that is expected to be as delicate as it is rushed.
CARSON CITY — A Senate-passed bill to allow patrons to smoke in bars that serve food could die because there is not enough time to consider amendments, a chairman said Wednesday.
It could have been worse, so there is relief among many in the state’s higher education community. There will not be massive layoffs. Important programs probably won’t be lost in their entirety. Students will not be forking over twice as much to go to school next year, as some feared they would.
CARSON CITY — An Assembly-approved bill to let some patients seek unlimited damages in medical malpractice lawsuits was being held up in the Senate in apparent retaliation for an Assembly committee chairman’s decision to sit on two Senate-passed construction defect bills.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Senate has passed an Assembly-approved bill that would tighten state laws to ensure that people convicted of drunken driving in urban areas attend meetings with victims or family or close friends of DUI victims.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel voted unanimously Tuesday for an Assembly-approved plan imposing fines that could add up to $1 million, besides any criminal penalties, on sex traffickers who lure or force children into prostitution.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s two biggest counties are fighting a proposal to redirect property taxes from the county to the state. The measure is one of several on an "ugly list" that lawmakers are considering to help fill the state’s budget hole.
CARSON CITY — On a party-line vote, the Assembly Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday for a bill to give domestic partners, whether gay or straight, many of the rights and benefits that Nevada offers to married couples.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly has passed a bill to create a funding stabilization account for K-12 education.
CARSON CITY — The capstone of the state’s next two-year budget finally fell into place late Tuesday as lawmakers agreed to spend about $300 million more than Gov. Jim Gibbons had proposed on the state’s higher education system.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly voted Tuesday for a judge-protection bill that was sought by a Reno judge wounded by a man who was going through a contentious divorce and had just killed his estranged wife.
CARSON CITY — A disgusted county lobbyist said Monday that the University Medical Center will go another $40 million in the red and smaller counties like Lincoln could go bankrupt because of the Legislature’s decision taking $50 million that rightfully belongs to counties and hospitals.
