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Nevadans Still Waiting Months For Unemployment Benefits

August 22, 2022 11:11 amAugust 23, 2022 12:55 pm

In a scathing op-ed, the Las Vegas Review Journal (RJ) blasts Governor Steve Sisolak’s and his fellow Democratic legislators for Nevada’s Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation’s failure to timely distribute unemployment benefits. The RJ reports: If they operated in the private sector, those running Nevada’s unemployment system would have...

Nevada Inflation Rate Surges To 15.4 Percent

August 19, 2022 3:22 pmAugust 26, 2022 10:56 am

A recent report released by the United States Congressional Joint Economic Committee shows prices increasing 15.4 percent from January 2021 to July 2022 in Nevada, costing the average Nevada household $831 last month alone. Even if prices stop increasing altogether, the inflation that has already occurred will cost the average Nevada...

Sen. Cortez Masto Avoids Biden, Harris And The Press

August 19, 2022 10:20 amAugust 19, 2022 3:22 pm

At a recent campaign event at the grand opening of Tacos El Gordo, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto avoided a question from a constituent asking if she had plans to campaign with President Biden. In an exclusive report from The Daily Caller, the awkward exchange is caught on video: After the...

Governor Sisolak Touts Spending Spree For Mental And Public Health

August 18, 2022 1:48 pmAugust 19, 2022 10:21 am

In a lengthy Twitter thread, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced a variety of agencies, projects and subsidies that were approved by the Interim Finance Committee to receive $171 million for “investments in public and mental health”, with an additional $100 million approved for ancillary, assistance programs. These programs will be...

WAPO: Cortez Masto’s ‘Weaselly’ ‘Flimsy’ ‘False’ Attack Ads Earn Seven Pinocchios

August 17, 2022 3:58 pmAugust 25, 2022 12:39 pm

The Washington Post (WAPO) published a lengthy and scathing fact check rebuking Sen. Cortez Masto’s campaign ads attacking GOP challenger Adam Laxalt’s record of fighting opioid manufacturers as Nevada’s Attorney General. WaPo concludes that Cortez Masto’s ads “weaselly” claim that “Laxalt was beholden to pharmaceutical companies because of campaign contributions”...

Globe Interview: Sen. Ted Cruz Skewers Sen. Cortez Masto’s Voting Record

August 16, 2022 2:54 pmAugust 18, 2022 10:02 am

This past weekend, at the annual Basque Fry hosted by Morning in Nevada PAC in Gardnerville, Nevada, The Globe had the opportunity to take part in a press scrum with Texas Senator Ted Cruz. When The Globe asked Sen. Cruz about his opinion on Sen. Cortez Masto’s claims of being...

$4 Billion Of Drought Funding in Inflation Reduction Act ‘Will Accomplish Nothing’

August 16, 2022 11:40 amAugust 16, 2022 2:54 pm

Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto voted for the Inflation Reduction Act and has made claims that the $4 billion secured in the act will “combat drought in the Western U.S.” Her statement below reads that the $4 billion will fund the Bureau of Reclamation, a federal agency under the U.S....

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