CARSON CITY — After hours of closed-door meetings, frustrated legislators called it a night Monday, having failed to reach accord on the higher education budget.
Politics and Government
CARSON CITY — A bill to let voters decide whether to legalize a state lottery appears to be dead after the chairman of the Senate committee in control of the bill said members do not want to conduct a hearing on it.
CARSON CITY — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue infuriated state worker groups last month when she signed legislation cutting salaries for teachers and state employees by 0.5 percent.
CARSON CITY — By the numbers alone, this legislative session is likely to come down to one thing: what Bill Raggio wants.
Gov. Jim Gibbons might not remember it, but the record shows he has flip-flopped on the issue of a state lottery.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers have their hands full as they start their 15th week of the 2009 session on Monday, trying to resolve differences in a state spending plan that must be balanced by new taxes and other revenue sources.
CARSON CITY — Key lawmakers failed to reach agreement on cuts to the state’s higher education system Friday, postponing a hearing to finalize the college and university budget until Monday.
CARSON CITY — More emotional testimony was given Friday on a plan that would give domestic partners, gay or straight, rights and benefits that Nevada offers to married couples.
CARSON CITY — A state-funded program under which 32 investigators check out allegations of child abuse in Clark County will continue operating despite the withdrawal of state funds.
CARSON CITY — No vote was taken Thursday following a 20-minute hearing on a bill to get around the Electoral College and guarantee the candidate with the most popular votes nationally becomes president.
CARSON CITY — Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley said Thursday that Gov. Jim Gibbons’ amended plan to balance the state budget is illegal because he wants to use federal stimulus funds to cover costs of current full-day kindergarten.
CARSON CITY — A key legislative budget panel voted Wednesday on final details of a $515.1 million, two-year spending plan for Nevada’s prison system that’s about $30 million higher than Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposal.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons released a budget plan Wednesday to cover a new $900 million revenue shortfall without raising taxes.
