Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state.
Politics and Government
Direct investments into mining companies have come without needed congressional oversight, three lawmakers say.
There have been increased calls by critics of Homeland Security to require all of the department’s officers who are responsible for immigration enforcement to wear body cameras.
The jobs report and other key economic statistics were previously delayed by a record 43-day government shutdown last fall.
President Donald Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for two years starting in July for construction.
CARSON CITY — Even as legislators scrambled to put together the money to fund state government for the next two years, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford was looking ahead Wednesday, introducing a proposal to lay the groundwork for long-term changes to the state’s tax structure.
CARSON CITY — In a bipartisan vote, the Assembly agreed 42-0 Wednesday night to appropriate $2.477 billion in state tax revenue for the support of public school education.
Is the state Legislature’s tax proposal an assault on the working class or a reasonable compromise that meets several important goals?
CARSON CITY — Under a resolution approved 28-13 Wednesday in the Assembly, voters will decide in the November 2010 election whether to amend the Nevada Constitution to allow governors to pick Supreme Court justices and district judges.
CARSON CITY — After being sidetracked most of the day by conflicts of interest that jeopardized crucial Republican votes, the state Senate approved a change to the rules to allow all members to vote on the budget and tax package late Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — With less than two weeks left in the 2009 legislative session, state lawmakers voted Tuesday for bills dealing with foreclosures, energy conservation, medical ethics and elections.
CARSON CITY — Harrah’s Entertainment is warning legislators that Nevada’s tourism industry could lose the business of gays and lesbians if they fail to override Gov. Jim Gibbons’ expected veto of a bill to allow couples to enter into domestic partnerships.
CARSON CITY — The state Senate voted Monday to give final legislative approval to a bill to let officials around Nevada publish an annual list of property taxpayers and their property values on an Internet Web site rather than in newspapers.
The state Legislature acted unfairly and behind closed doors when it decided to grab almost $100 million from the county in the next two years, Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid said Tuesday.
CARSON CITY — Legislative leaders emerged from a late-night closed-door meeting Tuesday with a tentative agreement to increase sales taxes by 0.35 percent, boost the top payroll tax rate to 1.17 percent, raise motor vehicle registration taxes and double business license fees.