Based in Reno, Bill Dentzer covers government and politics and related state news out of the Review-Journal’s capital bureau in Carson City. He joined the RJ in October 2018 after similar assignments at the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah and the Idaho Statesman in Boise. He earlier covered state and local government in his home state of New York, where he graduated from Hamilton College.
What is often a sluggish second week in the Legislature will ramp up swiftly Monday with the expected introduction of a gun sales background check bill that could be heard in committee, approved by lawmakers and signed by the governor before the end of the week.
Gerald Antinoro, the embattled sheriff of rural Storey County, facing charges of workplace sexual harassment and discrimination and with three confirmed state ethics violations already, has three new ethics cases pending that threaten his removal from office.
The latest motion, filed in the same court that issued the previous denial, is “another step in our aggressive, multifaceted legal strategy prevent Nevada from becoming a parking lot for nuclear weapons and waste,” Attorney General Aaron Ford said in a statement.
Legislative auditors saved Nevada government a total of $59 million over the last two years, conducting 24 audits during the period that accounted for about one-quarter of the total savings, an Assembly committee heard Wednesday.
Monday marked a historic day in Nevada as the first female-majority Legislature in the history of the U.S. was sworn into office to kick of the 80th meeting of the Legislature.
Republicans enter the 2019 Nevada legislative session at a distinct advantage against Democrats, focused as much on steps needed to rebuild their numbers and make the case for a return to strength while not raising a white flag of surrender for the session entirely.
With nearly $1 billion more at their disposal over the next two years, Nevada lawmakers are likely to devote much of the next four months looking at how to allocate that windfall to the two largest categories of state government spending: education and health care.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford on Wednesday named the members of a sexual harassment policy task force created by Gov. Steve Sisolak in his first official act as governor on Jan. 7.
Gov. Steve Sisolak named an advisory panel Friday that will write rules and procedures for a new compliance board to regulate Nevada’s exploding cannabis industry.
Sisolak, in unveiling his spending priorities during Wednesday’s State of the State address, acknowledged that roller-coaster ride, noting that recent history “tells us what pain an economic downturn can bring.”
While pledging no new taxes in his state of the state address Wednesday night, the Democrat is proposing retention of two taxes that were scheduled to be reduced or phased out. Keeping them will bring about $138 million.
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s proposals for more education funding drew support even from Republican lawmakers following his first state of the state address Wednesday, but that welcome from across the political aisle didn’t extend to the Democratic’s proposals for labor, housing and business.
Gov. Steve Sisolak proposed significant increases in funding for health care and education in Nevada, including a 3 percent pay raise for teachers, and expressed his desire to increase minimum wage in his first State of the State address to lawmakers Wednesday night.
Gov. Steve Sisolak, who formed a state task force to fight sexual harassment and discrimination on his first day in office Monday, followed that up Wednesday with an order seeking a state review of discrimination policies followed by state vendors and marijuana and gaming license holders.
The word “character” might not be big enough to describe the longtime North Las Vegas legislator, who died Friday at the age of 82 in Sparks.
