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RSLC Targets Down-Ballot ‘Biden Allies’ With ‘Republican Roadmap’ Campaign

April 30, 2024 2:53 pmApril 30, 2024 3:02 pm

The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) and its affiliated PACs has released its ‘Republican Roadmap’ ad campaign throughout the swingy Silver State highlighting how “state Republicans serve as the last line of defense for their constituents” in a pivotal 2024 election year. In Nevada, Democrats have a supermajority in the...

Tesla To Lay Off 693 Workers at Sparks GigaFactory

April 29, 2024 12:04 pmApril 29, 2024 12:05 pm

According to a report from the Nevada Department of Education, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR), Tesla will lay off 693 workers at its gigafactory in Sparks effective June 14. The notice came as a part of the U.S. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires companies of more than...

License to Burn: Wildfire as the Ultimate Public-Private Partnership (Part Two)

April 29, 2024 10:50 amSeptember 10, 2024 4:02 pm

The following is Part Two of “License to Burn.” Part One of the series can be found here. Part Three can be found here. On the night of August 14, 2021—exactly 365 days after the announced Fire Stewardship MOU—a small fire flared up a few miles from Grizzly Flats—a simple...

Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Carson City School District

April 23, 2024 10:48 amApril 23, 2024 3:21 pm

Attorneys Sigal Chattah and Joey Gilbert have filed a civil rights lawsuit (see below) against Carson City School District alleging the constitutional rights of a student (John Doe) were violated during an improper seizure through corporal punishment which “resulted in humiliation and destruction of Doe’s life and academic career.” The...

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...

OPINION: Sen Rosen Continues to Play Political Games With Our Southern Border

April 19, 2024 12:47 pmApril 19, 2024 2:13 pm

Sadly, but unsurprisingly, Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen has remained mostly silent as the Senate dismisses the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. In February, Mayorkas became the first cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876 when it was discovered that he purposefully and strategically refused to...

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