Gov. Steve Sisolak on Friday backed a bill to allow technology companies to create a new form of local government within Nevada, saying that it would lead to “massive economic investment.”
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The legislation comes amid concerns of a potential torrent of evictions in Nevada caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
With COVID-19 vaccinations scheduled to begin Wednesday for lawmakers, legislative staff, and others, the pace of activity in the Nevada Legislature is expected to quicken next week.
A group of Nevada lobbyists alleges that pandemic restrictions on the 2021 legislative session amount to constitutional violations.
After a slow start to the 2021 Legislature, Gov. Steve Sisolak last week signed a bill to provide $50 million in coronavirus aid to small businesses and nonprofits.
People of color make up nearly half of the Nevada marijuana industry workforce, but the executive-level positions for cannabis companies skew significantly whiter, according to a new survey.
Lawmakers completed work Thursday on one of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s budget priorities with the Senate unanimously approving a measure that provides $50 million to help small businesses and nonprofits hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nevada paid out some $9 billion in unemployment benefits last year, roughly 50 percent more than in the 12 previous years combined.
The 81st season of that biennial production known as the Nevada Legislature kicked off last week like molasses being poured through a strainer in the dead of winter.
The days of herding relative strangers into Nevada high school gyms for an all-day democracy exercise peppered with puzzling math equations that can make or break political futures may soon be at an end.