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We’re more than two-thirds of the way through the 2013 Legislature, and while some big debates have been had, some even bigger ones remain ahead.
The lockdown in Boston after the marathon bombing proved once again that:
For something that generated only $600,000 in gross revenue last year, sports betting kiosks in bars and taverns sure have gotten a lot of attention lately.
The fact that the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out by two immigrants with ties to mostly Islamic Chechnya will have impacts on many fronts. Unfolding revelations could impact the prospects of immigration reform. And questions still loom as to how and why the Russians apparently warned the CIA that older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a prime candidate for terrorism, whereupon the CIA told the FBI, whereupon … nothing much happened.
After five years as the hardest-hit state of the Great Recession, Nevadans might expect their 2013 Legislature to be asking what it can do to help the state’s surviving entrepreneurs expand their businesses and create new jobs.
The Nevada Assembly last week unanimously OK’d Assembly Bill 407, supposedly designed to clarify Nevada law, making it clear a candidate has to live in the district he intends to represent.