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Rising tide of women lawmakers makes Nevada a national leader

Women will make up 40 percent of the Legislature in 2017, tying Nevada with Colorado and Vermont as the states with the highest percentage of women legislators. That will benefit all Nevadans, they say.

Millennials in Nevada face long odds for earning more than their parents

Researchers at Stanford and Harvard universities and the University of California, Berkeley, found millennials’ odds of outearning their parents has shrunk by about half nationwide over 40 years, and has shrunk the most in Nevada among all states.

Award-winning journalists to staff Review-Journal’s Washington, D.C. bureau

Debra J. Saunders, a longtime political columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle, and Gary Martin, an award-winning political editor and national correspondent from the San Antonio Express-News, will cover the nation’s capital for the Review-Journal.

Nevada receives $1.17m to help erase backlog of untested rape kits

Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee authorizes use of the funding to continue the effort to test some 7,800 untested kits — some decade old — collected after sexual assaults.

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