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Senator Dallas Harris Introduced By CA Senator Scott Wiener At Fundraising Event in San Francisco

August 1, 2024 8:57 amAugust 2, 2024 1:07 pm

During Pride Month, Democratic State Senator Dallas Harris (SD-11) traveled to San Francisco for multiple fundraising events held by Sister District San Francisco, an LGBTQ organization that “works to turn state legislators from red to blue” and “build progressive power in state legislatures.” According to her financial statements and the...

Governors Lombardo And Newsom Square Off Over New CA Fuel Regulations

May 15, 2024 10:48 amMay 21, 2024 2:21 pm

Yesterday afternoon, Governor Lombardo sent a letter (see below) to California Governor Gavin Newsom raising his concerns about the unintended consequences of California’s SBX1-2 legislation, which could further increase gas prices in California, Nevada, and Arizona. SBX1-2, known as the California Gas Price Gouging and Transparency Law, was hastily enacted...

License To Burn: Wildfire As the Ultimate Private-Public Partnership

April 22, 2024 11:42 amMay 20, 2024 1:36 pm

This is Part One of a three-part series. Part Two of the series can be found here. Part Three is found here. With increasingly intense wildfires over recent years, we in the West are expected to embrace the new wildfire normal, as if it’s normal to have multiple catastrophic fires...

Assemblyman David Orentlicher Sponsors Bill To Create ‘Hygienic Spaces’ For Drug Use

February 16, 2023 1:52 pmFebruary 24, 2023 11:27 am

Democratic Assemblyman David Orentlicher has sponsored AB 115, a bill that would allow county commissioners in Clark and Washoe to establish hygienic spaces for drug use for adults 18 years and older. As written: “this bill authorize the establishment of programs for the prevention of overdoses and disease, which provide a...

A Snail In The Coffin For Sisolak’s Clean Energy Revolution?

September 13, 2022 2:39 pmSeptember 14, 2022 11:40 am

Nevada is home to Albemarle’s Silver Peak, the only operating lithium mine in the United States. As state and federal governments push consumers towards electric vehicles, the need for lithium grows as lithium is a critical ingredient for batteries used in electric vehicles, solar energy storage, and consumer electronics. The...

Restricting Gas Stations May Feel Good but it’s Bad Policy

August 2, 2022 12:46 pm

Failure to understand supply and demand may not be a requirement to serve in local government, but it doesn’t seem to hurt. As cities and states across the United State, including North Las Vegas, talk about imposing rent control – a policy which has failed everywhere it has been tried...

Nevada Indy Scoop: Governor Sisolak Expected to Lift Mask Mandate on Thursday

February 9, 2022 3:31 pmFebruary 10, 2022 8:45 am

In a reported scoop by The Nevada Independent: “Gov. Steve Sisolak is expected to lift the state’s mask mandate amid a nationwide decrease in COVID cases, joining a parade of states, including California, that have announced recent plans to lift their mandates. The governor’s office announced he would hold a virtual...