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Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones Steps Down As Vice Chair

May 18, 2023 9:42 amMay 18, 2023 3:03 pm

In the wake of a federal judge’s decision that found him liable for destroying evidence, lying to the court, and a subsequent State Bar investigation, Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones (District F) has stepped down as Vice Chair of the Commission. In a press release, Jones announced: “By stepping down...

Senator Rosen Urges Support For SAFE Banking Act

May 4, 2023 12:09 pm

On March 7, 2019, H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, was introduced for the first time into the House of Representatives. It was passed on September 25, and after being read twice into the Senate, it was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban...

Opinion: Nevada Democrats Speed Towards Constitutional Train Wreck

April 27, 2023 2:35 pmApril 28, 2023 2:24 pm

Democrats in the Nevada Legislature are pushing two bills that will create a constitutional crisis in a future presidential election. It would seem that the Democratic Legislative Majority is the at-large Keystone Cop of the Electoral College by introducing two bills that directly conflict with one another in relation to...

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...

OPINION: The Top-Down Take Over of Nevada Elections

April 17, 2023 7:58 amApril 18, 2023 1:08 pm

Let me cut to the chase. Members of the Nevada Legislature and Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar will usurp your voter rights, the rights of counties in the conduct of elections, and the governor’s emergency powers over elections too…if they can. Nevada’s 82nd Legislature is in session with a slew...

Lombardo Announces ‘Safer and Supportive Schools Act’ As ‘Common Sense Reforms For School Safety’

March 22, 2023 3:59 pmMarch 23, 2023 11:43 am

During his State of the State, Republican Governor Joe Lombardo urged the Nevada legislature to fix the mess they created in 2019 when they passed AB 168, a Restorative Justice experiment signed into law by former Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak, which prohibited or limited the expulsion of students. The bill also prohibited...

NV Dems Move to Enshrine Abortion Rights Into Nevada Constitution

March 19, 2023 11:40 amMarch 20, 2023 8:47 am

Citing the U.S Supreme Court’s decision on Roe V. Wade, a group of 40 Democratic legislators led by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro introduced a measure last Thursday to enshrine abortion protections in the Nevada Constitution. “The Supreme Court failed Nevadans when it upended fifty years of law to overturn Roe...