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Senate passes bill for universal background checks on guns
CARSON CITY -- Survivors as well as family members of gun violence victims were present in the Senate Chamber today when a bill that would require background checks for individuals engaging in the private party sale of a firearm passed on a partisan vote of 11-10. Section 8 of ...
BLOG: Dr. Jekyll and Assemblywoman Hyde
You can count the number of philosophical, as opposed to rhetorical, conservatives serving in this year’s Nevada Legislature on one hand. Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R-Las Vegas) is one of them. Alas, the freshman has proved to be quite the Jekyll-and-Hyde conservative. When Fiore has been right – as with ...
Reid, Sandoval seek to position Nevada as national clean energy leader
CARSON CITY -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval today jointly called for the passage of a legislative proposal to accelerate the retirement of coal plants owned by NV Energy and to expand renewable energy development in Nevada in the coming years. “This bill ...
Wackiness abounds during 2013 Bay Area race
Officials say that over 30,000 runners participated in the 102nd Bay to Breakers Sunday morning and as of noon that day, San Francisco Police had yet to report any notable incidents.
President Obama delivers commencement speech
President Barack Obama traveled to Atlanta to speak at the Morehouse College spring commencement, May 19, 2013.
Repeal of Nevada’s mining tax cap one step closer to 2014 public vote
CARSON CITY -- As the price of gold hit its lowest level in a month Thursday, the Assembly Committee on Taxation took a vote on a controversial resolution that would remove the state’s long-standing mining tax cap. Senate Joint Resolution 15 made its way through the Legislature during the ...
BLOG: Could disregard of the U.S. Constitution by Harry Reid end up dooming Obamacare?
LAS VEGAS -- The last time Obamacare was challenged before the U.S. Supreme Court, it barely survived. Only because Chief Justice John Roberts creatively re-construed the law’s unconstitutional penalties as constitutional “taxes” was a 5-to-4 Court majority able to form and save the gargantuan law, officially known as the ...
Lawmakers Urged To Ease HIPAA Law For Parents
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held hearings last month surrounding issues with the release of information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the HIPAA Privacy Rule, one of ...
Reaction to Economic Forum projections
LAS VEGAS -- The news that Nevada’s Economic Forum has increased its projections of tax revenue for the next two years by around $40 million is being received with optimism. Governor Brian Sandoval made the following statement: “Today’s news from the Economic Forum is a sign that we have ...
BLOG: Liberal thinkers in Nevada schools hurt minority students
When told that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was an inveterate drunk Abraham Lincoln reportedly replied: “Find out what he’s drinking so I can get some for my other generals.” The public education hierarchy may be facing a similar paradox with the recent announcement that American Indian Public Charter High ...
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