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License To Burn: Wildfire As the Ultimate Private-Public Partnership

April 22, 2024 11:42 amMay 20, 2024 1:36 pm

This is Part One of a three-part series. Part Two of the series can be found here. Part Three is found here. With increasingly intense wildfires over recent years, we in the West are expected to embrace the new wildfire normal, as if it’s normal to have multiple catastrophic fires...

Undocumented Couple Held on $1M Bail for Massive Mail Theft In Rural NV

April 19, 2024 2:12 pmApril 26, 2024 9:53 am

An undocumented couple, who were deported in 2019, have found their way back into the country entering Northern Nevada from California. During their travels in Reno, Carson County, Douglas County, Lyon County, Storey County and Washoe County, they were pulled over for speeding and then arrested and charged with multiple...

Governor Lombardo Urges President Biden to Rein In Federal Spending, Release Federal Lands

April 11, 2024 12:55 pmApril 11, 2024 4:25 pm

Today, Governor Joe Lombardo sent a letter (see below) to President Joe Biden urging his administration to curb inflation by reining in federal spending and to take action on the housing shortage in Nevada. “Here in Nevada, we are now at a stage where the housing shortage and inflation are...

On The Record With Dr Fred Simon, GOP Challenger to Congressman Mark Amodei

March 29, 2024 5:25 pmApril 4, 2024 2:52 pm

This interview has been edited and condensed. Dr. Fred Simon recently filed to challenge incumbent Republican Mark Amodei in the deep-red second congressional district in Northern Nevada which covers a third of the state and includes most of Lyon County, all of Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Pershing, Storey,...

NV SOS Reverses Course, Delays Top-Down Election Management System

March 19, 2024 12:49 pmMarch 25, 2024 1:23 pm

The Nevada Globe first reported on the wide-spread concerns county officials expressed about the “speedy” implementation of the top-down election system (VREMS). These concerns, first shared with the Globe, have now been made official in a request (see below) sent to the Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar by the Nevada...

RNC, NVGOP Files Lawsuit Claiming Five Counties Violate NVRA

March 18, 2024 11:47 amMarch 19, 2024 6:58 am

This article has been updated with a statement released by RNC Chairman. The Republican National Committee and the Nevada GOP have filed a lawsuit (see below) claiming five Nevada counties are violating the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) by not maintaining clean and accurate voter rolls. The counties named are...

Taking Nevada’s Public School System From Worst to First In Four Steps

March 1, 2024 2:30 pmMarch 4, 2024 1:19 pm

When Governor Joe Lombardo was declared the election winner over a year ago, he promised all Nevadans that he would fix our failing public schools that have ranked worst-in-the-nation for over a decade. Ineffective school leaders who said the problem was low funding were rewarded billions more dollars in the...