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After NV Democrats Overhaul Criminal Justice System, Retail Theft Soars In Silver State

December 11, 2023 1:48 pmDecember 18, 2023 2:50 pm

Since the Democratic majority. led by Steve Yeager, passed Assembly Bill 236 in 2019, the Silver State has seen a 15 percent increase in property crimes and a staggering 39 percent increase in drug-store thefts on the Las Vegas Strip. At the time, Attorney General Aaron Ford was “intimately involved”...

President Trump To Hold ‘Commit To Caucus’ Rally in Reno

December 8, 2023 4:30 pmDecember 16, 2023 3:23 pm

President Trump will hold a “Commit to Caucus” rally in Reno, Nevada on December 17 at 2pm at the Reno Sparks Convention Center. This marks former President Trump’s first visit to Northern Nevada since he announced his re-election campaign. Tickets for the event can be found here. The former president...

Cortez Masto, Rosen Join Biden To Announce $12 Billion Brightline High Speed Rail

December 8, 2023 1:11 pmDecember 8, 2023 4:30 pm

Today, President Biden will be landing at Harry Reid airport and will be joined by Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen to announce the $12 billion, 260 mile, electrified high speed rail from Brightline West which will connect Southern California (Rancho Cucamonga) to Las Vegas through the 1-15 corridor....

City Of Reno To Vote On Additional Stormwater Utility Tax

December 7, 2023 3:51 pmDecember 8, 2023 1:12 pm

As reported by The Globe earlier this year, the City of Reno is proposing a new Stormwater Utility that would require residents, businesses, and schools to pay a “fee”, otherwise known as a tax, to maintain and improve stormwater infrastructure. According to the City of Reno website, the average fee...

WCSD Trustee Sues District Over Concealment Of Public Records

December 7, 2023 12:36 pmDecember 7, 2023 3:52 pm

There have been numerous reports on the difficulties of obtaining public information from school districts throughout Nevada. In fact, unelected school district staff have, in many cases, awarded themselves more power than the elected Board of Trustees. The Washoe County School District (WCSD) is the latest school district to empower...

Lawsuit Filed to Stop Voter ID Ballot Initiative

December 6, 2023 9:27 amFebruary 26, 2024 3:15 pm

Here we go again. Yesterday, Attorney Marc Elias, former general counsel to Hillary Clinton and the DNC, announced that his team has filed a lawsuit (see below) to prevent a Voter ID ballot initiative filed by David Gibbs of Repair The Vote. This is the second lawsuit filed by Elias’s...

Lawsuit Seeks to Enforce Parental Notification for Minors Seeking An Abortion

December 5, 2023 2:51 pmDecember 11, 2023 1:50 pm

Parental notification for minor girls seeking an abortion was passed overwhelmingly by a bipartisan legislature and signed into law in 1985 by Democratic governor Richard Bryan. NRS 442.255 and NRS 442.2555 require one-parent notification with an optional judicial bypass for those situations where a teen feels endangered. The parental-notice law...