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UNR Moves Forward With Volleyball Match Despite Players’ Forfeit Over SJSU Transgender Athlete

October 14, 2024 4:08 pmOctober 18, 2024 3:29 pm

Earlier today, University of Nevada Reno (UNR) women’s volleyball team announced they would forfeit their upcoming Oct. 26 match against San Jose State University (SJSU) due to their transgender player Blaire Fleming. The team specifically cited “fairness and safety concerns” as their reasons for forfeit. Lt. Governor Stavros Anthony praised...

Trump in Reno: ‘We Don’t Need Four More Years of Gross Incompetence, Radicalism, and Failure’

October 14, 2024 12:40 pmOctober 14, 2024 4:08 pm

“We don’t need four more years of gross incompetence, radicalism and failure,” former President Donald Trump announced to an estimated crowd of 10,000 at the Grand Sierra Resort on Friday evening. Many in the crowd waited in line for hours to rally for the president’s second return to Washoe County,...

Alex Woodley Resigns from City of Reno Amid Allegations of ‘Sexting’ On City-Issued Cell Phone

October 11, 2024 3:06 pmOctober 17, 2024 10:45 am

The Globe has exclusively learned from multiple sources within the City of Reno that Director of Code Enforcement Alex Woodley resigned on Wednesday after a discovery of salacious text messages, including photos and videos, from his city-issued cell phone. The thousands of text messages were sent over a period of...

Culinary Union Warns Nevada Could Go Red

October 10, 2024 3:40 pmOctober 11, 2024 3:06 pm

POLITICO magazine reporter Adrian Carasquillo has been covering Nevada and Culinary Union 226 for over a decade and was told by a Culinary official that the union may lose Nevada for the first time since 2004. According to Carasquillo, this was the first time in his reporting that Culinary had...

The Perils of Ranked Choice Voting and Open Primaries

October 9, 2024 1:25 pmOctober 16, 2024 12:49 pm

The following interview was conducted with Mike Vallente in November 2023. It has been republished due to demand. As Nevadans prepare to vote in the 2024 general election, voters will be asked to vote again on a ballot initiative that would fundamentally transform the way Nevadan’s vote in a primary...

Democracy Dies In Darkness: Nevada Democrats Refuse Ethics Reforms

October 7, 2024 11:51 amOctober 9, 2024 1:25 pm

By design, Nevada’s legislative body is exempt from open records requests, further shielding lawmakers from scrutiny or transparency. In 2015, legislators approved a bill cementing their immunity, which shields their calendars, emails and communications from public records requests. As a result, numerous ethical scandals have plagued legislative Democrats, forcing three...

Report: Immigration Is Number One Cause of Urban Sprawl In Nevada

October 4, 2024 1:36 pmNovember 20, 2024 2:35 pm

A comprehensive study conducted by NumbersUSA confirms that legal and illegal immigration, as a consequence of federal immigration policy, is the number one cause of urban sprawl. According to the study, Nevada takes first place in three categories: fastest population growth, fastest loss of natural habitat and farmland, and the...

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