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Workplace safety training bill debated

CARSON CITY — Changes to speed up workplace safety training for new employees, in efforts to reduce on-the-job deaths and injuries, prompted questions Monday in a Nevada Assembly committee hearing.

Hardesty touts plan for mandatory mediation

CARSON CITY — About 340 lawyers have volunteered to serve as mediators to work with lenders to keep Nevadans from losing their homes to foreclosure, Nevada Chief Justice Jim Hardesty said Monday.

Power-of-attorney bill urged for seniors

CARSON CITY — A state Senate panel was urged Friday to approve a power-of-attorney measure aimed at protecting Nevada seniors from abuses by caregivers and, in some cases, their own children.

Senate panel votes to ban driver texting

CARSON CITY — A bill to prohibit motorists, including police and emergency personnel, from text-messaging on cell phones while behind the wheel won committee approval Friday and now moves to the full Nevada Senate.

Panel asked for bottom line on higher education funding

CARSON CITY — Chancellor Jim Rogers urged legislators Friday to tell him the exact figure at which they will fund the Nevada System of Higher Education, not just offer more guesses on how much money will be available.

Students ask legislators to avoid massive education cuts

Twenty-plus college students pleaded with legislators Friday to keep the higher education system’s budget from being cut, which many said could end their chances of success in life.

Governor challenges lawmakers to offer better plan

RENO — Gov. Jim Gibbons on Tuesday challenged legislators who oppose his budget-cutting proposals to come up with a better solution, if they can.

State workers rally against COLA cuts

State workers and their supporters rallied Friday to warn state leaders not to cut cost-of-living raises for public workers, even though officials have said that the raises are protected in a plan to reduce state spending to meet budget shortfalls.