A bill heard in a Senate committee today would make it much harder to bring a class-action lawsuit for failure to pay constitutionally mandated minimum wages in Nevada.
Steve Sebelius
Nevada Democrats reportedly will unveil a tax-and-policy agenda this week, but time is getting short and alternatives are scarce as we’ve put nearly a third of the 2015 session behind us.
It’s not exaggerating by too much to say Las Vegas streets and freeways are blood-soaked killing fields through which the Grim Reaper drunk-drives his Chevy Corvair while texting, eating lunch, changing the radio station and sharpening his scythe.
At the start of this week’s hearing on the Shield Public Records from the Prying Eyes of the Public and Press Act of 2015 (not its real name), the chief lobbyist for the Nevada League of Cities and Municipalities made a little funny.
If you were a little confused Tuesday about the fate of a bill that would allow the Clark County School District to get to work building badly needed new schools, don’t be embarrassed. You were not alone.
The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance failed this week to take a vote on endorsing a tax plan. A spokesman says the group is still studying tax options.
Recall proponents aiming at John Hambrick are seeking to punish him for crimes he’s yet to commit.
The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance is meeting Tuesday morning to review several tax studies, and may endorse one of them.
Toward the middle of Thursday’s long Assembly Government Affairs Committee hearing on a bill to build schools but not pay prevailing wages for school construction, Minority Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick said what was on a lot of people’s minds.
Debate over a gun bill in the Senate raises the question of when killing is justified in Nevada.
A new bill would relax Nevada’s reciprocity standards when it comes to concealed weapons.
Nevada’s own Dirty Harriet, Las Vegas Republican Asemblywoman Michele Fiore, recently regaled the Chronicle of Higher Education with an oldie-but-goodie among gun lovers.
Assembly Bill 120 would allow students to sue if they believe their free exercise of religion rights have been violated.
After a week away, Steve catches up on some news that broke while he was on staycation.
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Dad of Henderson teen who died by suicide says tragedy ‘could have been easily avoided’
Popular downtown Las Vegas casino bar temporarily closes
Mirage’s atrium coming down on Las Vegas Strip — PHOTOS
Longtime Las Vegas Chinese restaurant reopens almost 2 years after fire
‘Too drunk to stand’: Videos of Raider Charles Snowden’s DUI released