If you have a superior product, you don’t need a government mandate. That’s why the claims made by “green” energy advocates ring hollow as they push to increase Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard from 25 percent by 2025 to 50 percent by 2030. On Friday, Senate Commerce, Labor and Energy heard testimony on and voted out AB206, sponsored by Assemblyman Chris Brooks, D-Las Vegas.
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Amed Rosario hits a walk-off double on May 1, 2017, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• A man is dead after he was shot more than 10 times in an apartment in central Las Vegas. The man may have been in his 30s. Police say the incident was drug-related.
• The TSA quietly tested a new screening process in Las Vegas. The process calls for placing tablets, e-readers and other devices larger than a cell phone in separate bins. Food and paper products might also be removed. McCarran is one of ten airports conducting the test, which is aimed at providing a better look inside bags.
• Restarting the process to determine whether a nuclear waste repository could be built at Yucca Mountain would take five years and cost more than $330 million dollars. That’s according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
• And Zappos has stopped giving tours through the company’s downtown call center. The company says it’s better for customers to know tourists aren’t listening to the calls.
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1. A 17-year-old Laughlin High School student walked out of an exam Tuesday morning, and was later found dead near Harrah’s Laughlin hotel-casino that night. Senior Anthony Stearns arrived at school early Tuesday, before walking out on an exam and leaving school grounds. A missing persons report was filed at 4 p.m. when Stearns failed to return home. He was found by a hotel guest who alerted security around 7:30 p.m.
2. A man wearing body armor and a mask backed a tractor-trailer through the gate of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, and crashed into the front door. Brian Brandt was arrested and faces charges multiple charges including assualt with a deadly weapon. No one inside was hurt and the damage is estimated at $400,000.
3. The Nevada Assembly voted 26-14 on a resolution that asks Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to rein in independent political campaign spending. The vote makes Nevada the 19th state to ask Congress to overturn the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case.
