A GOP-backed bill that would have allowed political parties to scrap Nevada’s presidential caucus system in favor of a secret-ballot primary was killed by an Assembly committee Wednesday.
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Supporters of a Republican-backed bill to scrap Nevada’s presidential caucuses for a secret-ballot primary in February argued Tuesday that the move would expand participation in choosing the nation’s president.
Brace yourself, Nevada. If nasty commercials and mailboxes stuffed with campaign fliers incite annoyance, it will get a whole lot worse if a bill making its way through the Legislature becomes law.
The Economic Forum has made its prediction of how much tax revenue the state can expect under existing law over the next two years. Legislative money committees are closing budgets.
Nevada would scrap its caucus system for a presidential preference primary under a bill considered Wednesday by a Senate committee.
Twelve children died from abuse or neglect in Nevada over the last two years, according to a recent legislative auditor’s review. Another nine abused children almost succumbed to their injuries during the same time period.
The documented ill health effects from inhaling secondhand smoke were squared off against individual rights at a hearing Thursday on a bill that would ban smoking in cars while children are present.
Federal agencies would be prohibited from enforcing state laws on state lands without permission from the county sheriff under a bill heard Monday by the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
Vaping is hazardous and should be treated like smoking cigarettes, the Southern Nevada Health District said Wednesday in backing a proposal to tax electronic cigarettes and their components as if they were tobacco.
Just as the swallows return to Capistrano every spring, the advent of a new session of the Legislature means that the long-simmering debate over access to public records will begin once again in Nevada.