The Southern Nevada Water Authority wants to take billions of gallons of water that doesn’t exist from Eastern Nevada via a pipeline that would cost ratepayers $15 billion. Doing so would devastate the wildlife and people who live there. That’s according to Kyle Roerink, executive director of the Great Basin Water Network, which opposes the pipeline.
New gun laws from Carson City are going to make life harder for the wrong people.
Nevada’s new U.S. Attorney Nicholas Trutanich refused to rule out the possibility of prosecuting marijuana crimes.
Across the country, restorative justice is lowering test scores and increasing the number of students who feel unsafe at schools. That’s according to Max Eden, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute, who recently released a study on school discipline reform.
Read by Three is about to become Read by Never. On Monday, a host of Democrats introduced Assembly Bill 289, which would gut the requirement that third graders who aren’t proficient in reading repeat the grade.
A bill in the Assembly would reduce the penalties students face for punching teachers. An animating belief behind the bill is that teachers can’t overcome their racial biases.
Brian Knudsen, who’s running for Las Vegas City Council in Ward 1, discusses development at Badlands golf course, the city’s restrictions on short-term rentals and light rail.
Sens. David Parks and Joyce Woodhouse are each receiving six-figure pensions from the Public Employees’ Retirement System. Now, they’re co-sponsoring a bill to prevent you from finding out how much retirees, themselves included, will collect going forward.
It doesn’t makes sense for Las Vegas to spend millions in litigation fighting development at the Badlands golf course. One of the major root causes of homelessness is drug addiction. Las Vegas shouldn’t use rent control rein in prices. That’s all according to Las Vegas City Council Ward 1 candidate Dave Marlon.
If abortion advocates believed their own rhetoric, they’d oppose the Trust Nevada Women Act.
The residents of Las Vegas’ Ward 3 aren’t thinking about the development issues surrounding the Badlands golf course. They do, however, want more neighborhood police patrols to increase public safety. That’s according to former Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz who’s running for the Ward 3 city council seat.
It’s a lot harder to attack your legislative allies than your enemies. Just ask the Nevada State Education Association.
Faced with a difficult question about the background check bill, a lawyer for Everytown for Gun Safety recommended violating federal law.
The background check bill currently being rushed through the Nevada legislature isn’t the same as the background check initiative voters passed in 2016, according to Dan Reid, western director of the National Rifle Association.
The Federal Reserve looked recently at Nevada’s pension system. The results are terrifying. It found that Nevada’s Public Employees’ Retirement System has an unfunded liability of $43.3 billion in 2016.
