The incumbent governor raised more than any of his Republican opponents, and won’t have to spend money in a primary, unlike his GOP foes.
Bill Dentzer
Former Government and Poiltics Reporter
Gov. Steve Sisolak and the agency he created to help immigrants coming to Nevada recommitted on Thursday to assisting Afghan refugees and special immigrant visa holders and welcoming them to the state “as the situation continues to unfold in Afghanistan.”
With a bill-introduction deadline looming on Monday, Carson City lawmakers are bracing for a long day.
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.
Heather Korbulic, the veteran state administrator tapped in late April to lead Nevada’s overwhelmed unemployment program at the height of COVID-19 pandemic, will leave the agency “due to threats to her personal safety.”
Gov. Steve Sisolak has asked his COVID-19 medical advisers to review “enhanced face covering policies” for Nevadans, as the state Friday reported its highest daily increase in cases of the disease.
The state’s top medical and infectious disease officials reaffirmed to a legislative committee Wednesday that Nevada has seen no cases of the new coronavirus from China to date.
The Patient Protection Commission proposed by Gov. Steve Sisolak at the start of his term and established by the Legislature last spring now has its leadership and board.
Joe Biden, the former vice president, outpaced all his Democratic rivals for the 2020 presidential nomination in Nevada fundraising in the second quarter of 2019.
Jim Dzurenda, director of the state department of corrections, has resigned, and the state will conduct a national search for his replacement.
The Senate and Assembly moved through relatively light pre-Easter agendas Friday ahead of expected back-to-back marathon sessions starting Monday to meet the next legislative deadline for bill passage.
The Nevada Supreme Court Friday unanimously rejected a legal appeal by Republicans pressing to recall two Las Vegas Valley Democratic state senators.
Gov. Steve Sisolak — the first Democrat to hold the office in 20 years — reflects on his first 100 days in office.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus slapped Trump administration moves on plutonium shipments and nuclear waste storage in Nevada, congratulated state lawmakers on gun control efforts and criticized sheriffs who’ve said they won’t enforce them in remarks to the Legislature on Tuesday.
A proposed rewrite of Nevada’s abortion laws has been revised to leave in place existing parental notification requirements for minors while still amending informed consent provisions and removing from statute outdated criminal penalties.
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