The true cynic is the person who has given up hope that things can change, embracing and eventually even defending the status quo.
Steve Sebelius
Steve Sebelius wrote about local, state and national politics, as well as the Nevada Legislature.
Last week was a busy one, which explains why I didn’t get a chance to see Treasurer Dan Schwartz’s letter to the editor in response to my column of Dec. 2, 2015. In that piece, I questioned the propriety of regulations Schwartz’s office wrote regarding the state’s new Education Savings Account program.
Back in 2012, attorney Kermitt Waters mounted his most audacious legal attack on a law that restricts the ability of citizens to propose laws by initiative. That law, known as the “single-subject rule,” says initiatives can only address a single issue. It was put in place in 2005 to prevent crafty special interests from trying to enact unpopular laws by wrapping them inside popular ones.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday finished signing the bills passed by the 2015 Legislature, approving nearly 550 measures and vetoing just six.
A move to delay debate on an anti-bullying bill was ignored in the Assembly today was ignored, as a majority voted to approve the bill and send it to the governor’s desk.
It looks like we’ll be voting on gun background checks and legalizing recreational marijuana.
This week, Nevada saw its own engineering marvel: A tunnel clawed into the earth, underneath Lake Mead, to a precise point at the bottom of the lake.
Republicans are attacking lieutenant governor candidate Assemblywoman Lucy Flores for allegedly failing to properly report campaign expenditures.
The Senate’s initial vote last week on a proposed constitutional amendment to allow Congress to regulate campaign fundraising and spending was somewhat confusing: It passed 79-18, well in excess of the 60 votes needed to begin debate, and the 66 needed for final passage.
Nobody should blame Tesla Motors for seeking big bucks from the state of Nevada in exchange for building its $5 billion “gigafactory” in an industrial park not far from Reno.
From the start, there was something of a consensus on the need to revise the Metropolitan Police Department gang identification policy.
We have seen the future, and the future is Colorado. Or something.
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