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Lombardo Expands Postpartum Medicaid To 12 Months

June 13, 2023 11:58 amJune 19, 2023 2:16 pm

Last Friday, Governor Joe Lombardo signed Senate Bill 232 into law, extending Medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months from 60 days. The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assemblywoman Michelle Gorelow and Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, received wide bipartisan support, with only one Republican, Assemblyman Burt Gurr (AD-33), voting “no.” This...

RNC Launches ‘Bank Your Vote’ To ‘Beat Democrats At Their Own Game’

June 9, 2023 1:08 pmAugust 6, 2024 11:10 am

The Republican National Committee (RNC), led by Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, held a press conference yesterday to announce “Bank Your Vote,” a nationwide campaign focused on maximizing pre-Election Day voting. Bank Your Vote will encourage, educate, and activate Republican voters on when, where, and how to lock in their votes as early as possible, through in-person early...

State Leaders, Oakland A’s Reach Tentative Agreement

May 24, 2023 9:57 am

The Oakland A’s have been eyeing a move to Las Vegas for over a year due the fact that it’s simply harder to do business in California compared to Nevada. The A’s organization has been subject to a barrage of lawsuits filed against their plans to build a waterfront stadium...

DCSB President Speaks Out in Defense of Girls Sports And Private Spaces

May 15, 2023 2:14 pmMay 19, 2023 4:12 pm

Last week, we broke the story that that ACLU NV threatened the Douglas County School District with litigation if the Board of Trustees adopt a “transgender student policy” that protect sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms from biological men who identify as females or biological women who identify as males. The ACLU NV...

School Choice Battle Brews in Carson City

April 28, 2023 2:22 pmMay 1, 2023 1:31 pm

After a legislative hearing on Assembly Bill 400, Democrats and Republicans have taken their battle outside the halls of Carson City to social media over school choice and Opportunity Scholarships. Assembly Bill 400 is Governor Lombardo’s Education Achievement, Opportunity and Investment Act, a companion to the Governor’s budget which includes...

Opportunity Scholarships, School Choice, And Literacy Take Center Stage In Legislature

April 26, 2023 2:24 pmJuly 24, 2023 2:46 pm

Yesterday, Governor Lombardo’s Chief of Staff Ben Kieckhefer held a press conference in his office highlighting two of the Governor’s bills which will be heard before their respective committees today in Carson City. On the back of Keickhefer’s office chair laid a t-shirt emblazoned with “Getting sh*t done–Joe Lombardo.” The...

Bipartisan Support In State Senate For Transgender Inmates And Abortion

April 20, 2023 3:41 pmApril 22, 2023 4:09 pm

The saying “politics makes strange bedfellows” is certainly appropriate to describe the latest bipartisan votes in the State Senate. After Senate Bill 131 passed with bipartisan support, the NV GOP tweeted that they were “horrified.” https://twitter.com/NVGOP/status/1648791793570562048?s=20 Senate Bill 131, as The Globe reported, codifies former Governor Sisolak’s Executive Order who had...