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On The Record With Annette Dawson Owens, GOP Candidate for Assembly District 29

October 15, 2024 12:50 pmOctober 15, 2024 12:56 pm

Annette Dawson Owens, GOP candidate for Nevada Assembly District 29, is an educator, an advocate and a mother to six sons. The last three mayors of Henderson appointed her to the city’s Community Education Advisory Board, and through her 30-year presence in the district, she has run into some of...

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...

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...

AG Ford Announces Ghost Gun Law Remains ‘On The Books’ Following District Court’s Ruling

October 8, 2024 11:51 am

In a press release, Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford announced that Nevada’s “ghost gun” law remains “on the books” following the District Court’s order concluding that the 2021 law is constitutional. “The District Court found that Nevada’s ghost gun law ‘is consistent with the American tradition of firearms regulation focused...

On the Record with Diana Sande, GOP Candidate for Assembly District 25

October 7, 2024 6:16 pmOctober 7, 2024 6:18 pm

Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Latin America, Diana Sande’s father worked for Coca Cola, and every two years her father was relocated to a different country. At 17, living in Paraguay, Sande was corned on a public street by a high ranking general who served under the dictatorial...

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...

Democrat Candidate for Assembly Associated With And Praised Taliban Sympathizers

October 2, 2024 3:11 pmOctober 2, 2024 4:10 pm

Recent research has uncovered concerning information regarding Democratic Assembly District 34 candidate Hanadi Nadeem’s past personal and professional associations. Recently uncovered social media posts reveal Hanadi Nadeem posted multiple statements of support and admiration for former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, a known Taliban sympathizer. Khan “urged the world to...

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